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Presentation ceremony of the President’s Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service. President John F. Kennedy presents the award to Career Ambassador, Llewellyn E. Thompson (center left). Looking on (L-R): Secretary of State, Dean Rusk; award recipient and Director of the Manned Spacecraft Center, Dr. Robert Gilruth (in back); Associated Press (AP) photographer, Henry Burroughs; Naval Aide to the President, Captain Tazewell T. Shepard, Jr.; Administrator of the Housing and Home Finance Agency (HHFA), Robert C. Weaver; award recipient and President of the Federal National Mortgage Association of the HHFA, J. Stanley Baughman (partially hidden); Senator Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota (partially hidden); Representative Kenneth A. Roberts (Alabama); Senator Estes Kefauver (Tennessee); Senator John A. Carroll (Colorado); Chairman of the Distinguished Civilian Service Awards Board and Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Dr. James E. Webb; Senator Frank Carlson (Kansas); Executive Secretary of the Distinguished Civilian Service Awards Board and Chairman of the U.S. Civil Service Commission, John W. Macy, Jr. West Wing Lawn, White House, Washington, D.C.
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Presentation ceremony of the President’s Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service. President John F. Kennedy (back to camera) presents the award to Director of the Manned Spacecraft Center, Dr. Robert Gilruth. Looking on (L-R): Secretary of the Army, Cyrus R. Vance (in back); Director of Operations for Project Mercury, Dr. Walter C. Williams; Naval Aide to the President, Captain Tazewell T. Shepard, Jr. (in back); astronauts Commander Alan B. Shepard, Jr., and Colonel John H. Glenn, Jr.; Administrator of the Housing and Home Finance Agency (HHFA), Robert C. Weaver (in back, partially hidden); award recipient and President of the Federal National Mortgage Association of the HHFA, J. Stanley Baughman; Chairman of the Distinguished Civilian Service Awards Board and Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Dr. James E. Webb (partially hidden); Senator Estes Kefauver (Tennessee); Senator John A. Carroll (Colorado). West Wing Lawn, White House, Washington, D.C.
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JFKWHP-AR7400-D
Presentation ceremony of the President’s Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service. President John F. Kennedy (at microphones) and others listen as Executive Secretary of the Distinguished Civilian Service Awards Board and Chairman of the U.S. Civil Service Commission, John W. Macy, Jr. (far right), reads the citation for award recipient and Medical Officer for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey (center left). Standing in background (L-R): Secretary of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW), Anthony J. Celebrezze; award recipient and Chief of the Department of Cardiorespiratory Diseases at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Dr. Donald E. Gregg; Director of Operations for Project Mercury, Dr. Walter C. Williams (very back, mostly hidden); award recipient and Director of the Manned Spacecraft Center, Dr. Robert Gilruth; Secretary of the Army, Cyrus R. Vance (mostly hidden); astronaut Commander Alan B. Shepard, Jr. (very back, partially hidden); Naval Aide to the President, Captain Tazewell T. Shepard, Jr.; Associated Press (AP) photographer, Henry Burroughs; Administrator of the Housing and Home Finance Agency (HHFA), Robert C. Weaver; award recipient and President of the Federal National Mortgage Association of the HHFA, J. Stanley Baughman (partially hidden); Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (Minnesota); Representative Kenneth A. Roberts (Alabama); Senator Estes Kefauver (Tennessee); Senator John A. Carroll (Colorado); Chairman of the Distinguished Civilian Service Awards Board and Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Dr. James E. Webb (mostly hidden on far edge of frame). West Wing Lawn, White House, Washington, D.C.
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President John F. Kennedy stands with award recipients at the presentation ceremony of the President’s Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service. Left to right (in foreground): Career Ambassador, Llewellyn E. Thompson; Virginia Lyon (accepting the award on behalf of her husband, Dr. Waldo K. Lyon, Head of the Submarine and Arctic Research Branch of the U.S. Navy Electronics Laboratory); Medical Officer for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey; Chief of the Department of Cardiorespiratory Diseases at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Dr. Donald E. Gregg; President Kennedy; Director of the Manned Spacecraft Center, Dr. Robert Gilruth; President of the Federal National Mortgage Association of the Housing and Home Finance Agency (HHFA), J. Stanley Baughman. Standing in background (L-R): Secretary of the Army, Cyrus R. Vance (mostly hidden); astronaut Commander Alan B. Shepard, Jr. (partially hidden); Naval Aide to the President, Captain Tazewell T. Shepard, Jr.; Administrator of the HHFA, Robert C. Weaver (partially hidden); Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (Minnesota); Representative Kenneth A. Roberts (Alabama); Senator Estes Kefauver of Tennessee (partially hidden); Chairman of the Distinguished Civilian Service Awards Board and Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Dr. James E. Webb. West Wing Lawn, White House, Washington, D.C.
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President John F. Kennedy stands with the recipients of the 1961 Robert J. Collier Trophy; President Kennedy presented the trophy to four X-15 pilots on behalf of the National Aeronautic Association (NAA). In foreground (L-R): President Kennedy; A. Scott Crossfield (North American Aviation); Major Robert M. White (U.S. Air Force); Joseph A. Walker (National Aeronautics and Space Administration); Commander Forrest S. Petersen (U.S. Navy). Also pictured: Secretary of the Navy, Fred Korth; Administrator of NASA, Dr. James E. Webb; Chairman of the Board of the National Aeronautic Association, Jacqueline Cochran; White House correspondent for The Washington Star, Garnett D. Horner. West Wing Lawn, White House, Washington, D.C.
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Presentation of the 1961 Robert J. Collier Trophy; President John F. Kennedy (back to camera, greeting guests) presented the trophy to four X-15 pilots on behalf of the National Aeronautic Association (NAA). Standing at right: Major Robert M. White (U.S. Air Force), Joseph A. Walker (National Aeronautics and Space Administration), and Commander Forrest S. Petersen (U.S. Navy). Also pictured: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Lyman L. Lemnitzer; Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force, General Curtis E. LeMay; Secretary of the Air Force, Eugene M. Zuckert; Administrator of NASA, Dr. James E. Webb; Chairman of the Board of the National Aeronautic Association, Jacqueline Cochran; White House Secret Service agents, Win Lawson and Frank Yeager. West Wing Lawn, White House, Washington, D.C.