Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-22613
President John F. Kennedy visits with President of Mexico, Adolfo López Mateos, during a departure ceremony in honor of him and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, following their state visit to Mexico. In foreground (L-R): Chief of Protocol of Mexico, Federico A. Mariscal; General Cristóbal Guzmán Cárdenas; Military Aide to President Kennedy, General Chester V. Clifton; Eva López Mateos; First Lady of Mexico, Eva Sámano de López Mateos; President Kennedy; President López Mateos; U.S. State Department interpreter, Donald Barnes; Mrs. Kennedy; Chief of the Presidential General Staff of Mexico, Major General José Gómez Huerta (hidden). Also pictured: Fanny Gamboa de Carrillo Flores (wife of Mexican Ambassador to the United States, Antonio Carrillo Flores); President of the Permanent Commission of the Mexican Congress, Rómulo Sánchez Mireles; Mrs. Rómulo Sánchez Mireles; President of the Supreme Court of Mexico, Alfonso Guzmán Neyra; Adela Rodríguez de Guzmán Neyra; Guadalupe Macías de Tello; Foreign Minister of Mexico, Manuel Tello; Guadalupe Borja de Díaz Ordaz; Minister of the Interior of Mexico, Gustavo Díaz Ordaz; Director General of the Institute of Social Security of Mexico, Benito Coquet; Special Assistant to President López Mateos, Justo Sierra; Private Secretary to President López Mateos, Humberto Romero Pérez; Governor of the Federal District of Mexico, Ernesto P. Uruchurtu; Minister of National Defense, Lieutenant General Agustín Olachea Avilés; Minister of the Navy of Mexico, Admiral Manuel Zermeño Araico. Members of an honor guard stand in the background. Benito Juárez International Airport, Mexico City, Mexico.