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White House Photographs
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President John F. Kennedy shakes hands with President of Panama, Roberto F. Chiari, on the reviewing platform during the arrival ceremony in honor of President Chiari. On the platform (L-R): President Kennedy; Minister of Foreign Affairs of Panama, Dr. Galileo Solis (mostly hidden); U.S. Secretary of State, Dean Rusk; President Chiari; Commandant of the Marine Corps, General David M. Shoup; U.S. Ambassador to Panama, Joseph S. Farland; U.S. Chief of Protocol, Angier Biddle Duke (partially hidden); and Ambassador of Panama, Augusto Guillermo Arango. Aide-de-Camp to President Chiari, Lieutenant Federico Boyd (behind Secretary Rusk), and Military Aide to President Kennedy, General Chester V. Clifton (right), flank the platform. Also pictured: Ambassador of Nicaragua and Dean of the Diplomatic Corps, Dr. Guillermo Sevilla-Sacasa; Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Dr. José A. Mora; U.S. State Department interpreter, Donald Barnes; Deputy Chief of Protocol, William J. Tonesk; Security Officer for the Department of State, Frank Madden; and White House Secret Service agents, Emory Roberts and Roy Kellerman. Members of the press gather in the foreground; the United States Army Band stands in the background. Military Air Transport Service (MATS) terminal, Washington National Airport, Washington, D.C. [Photograph by Harold Sellers]