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President John F. Kennedy (bottom left, wearing sunglasses), Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shahanshah of Iran (left of President Kennedy), and other distinguished guests watch a demonstration of the Short Airfield for Tactical Support (SATS) at Bogue Field, Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, North Carolina. The Shahanshah, in the United States on a state visit, joined the President in North Carolina to inspect the U.S. Atlantic Fleet. Those pictured include: Admiral Robert L. Dennison, Commander in Chief of the Atlantic Command (CINCLANT), Commander in Chief of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet, and Supreme Allied Commander, Atlantic (SACLANT); Senator Richard B. Russell (Georgia); Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara; Commandant of the United States Marine Corps General David M. Shoup; Congressman Carl Vinson (Georgia); Chief of Staff of the United States Army General George H. Decker; Ambassador of Peru Fernando Berckemeyer; Chief of Protocol Angier Biddle Duke; Lieutenant General Robert B. Luckey, Commanding General, Fleet Marine Force, Atlantic; Major General Richard C. Mangrum, Commanding General, Second Marine Aircraft Wing; Naval Aide to the President Captain Tazewell Shepard, Jr.; Assistant Secretary of the Treasury James A. Reed; Under Secretary of the Navy Paul B. “Red” Fay; White House Secret Service agent Gerald A. “Jerry” Behn; Air Force Aide to the President Brigadier General Godfrey T. McHugh; Special Assistant to the President Kenneth P. O’Donnell; Special Assistant to the President Dave Powers; Deputy Secretary of Defense Roswell Gilpatric; and Director of the Bureau of the Budget David E. Bell.
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President John F. Kennedy (left) shakes hands with shakes hands with Commissary Steward Petty Officer First Class, Horace L. Medders (USN), during a cake-cutting ceremony to commemorate his visit aboard the cruiser USS Northampton (CC-1), command ship of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet, at sea off the coast of Virginia and North Carolina; Officer Medders was one of the sailors who baked the cake. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury James A. Reed (in back, second from left) and Under Secretary of the Navy Paul B. “Red” Fay (right of Assistant Secretary Reed) stand in the background; crew members look on. The President boarded the ship earlier that day at Naval Air Station, Norfolk, Virginia for an overnight cruise to view fleet exercises.