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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C20897
President John F. Kennedy talks with the U.S. Advisory Commission on International Educational and Cultural Affairs in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Washington, D.C. (L-R) Congressman Harris B. McDowell, Jr. of Delaware (mostly hidden); Assistant Secretary of State for Education and Cultural Affairs Philip H. Coombs; Mabel M. Smythe, Principal of New Lincoln High School, New York City; President Kennedy; James R. Fleming, publisher of the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette; and Congressman John J. Rooney (New York). Senator J. W. Fulbright of Arkansas (far right) and Senator Warren G. Magnuson of Washington (far left) sit in the foreground.
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