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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 (at microphones) delivers remarks prior to presenting the award to Virginia Lyon (accepting on behalf of her husband, Dr. Waldo K. Lyon, Head of the Submarine and Arctic Research Branch of the U.S. Navy Electronics Laboratory). Left to right: Secretary of the Navy, Fred Korth; Mrs. Lyon; award recipient and President of the Federal National Mortgage Association of the Housing and Home Finance Agency (HHFA), J. Stanley Baughman; Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (Minnesota); Presidential Assistant, John J. McNally (very back, standing in West Wing Colonnade); President Kennedy; Senator Estes Kefauver of Tennessee (in back); Senator John A. Carroll (Colorado); Executive Secretary of the Distinguished Civilian Service Awards Board and Chairman of the U.S. Civil Service Commission, John W. Macy, Jr.; Senator Frank Carlson of Kansas (in back, partially hidden); Assistant Attorney General, Ramsey Clark. 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 (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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Presentation of the Dr. Thomas A. Dooley III Congressional Gold Medal to Dr. Dooley’s mother, Agnes Wise Dooley, and members of the Dooley family; President John F. Kennedy presented the posthumous award to Mrs. Dooley (center left, holding the medal). Also pictured: Executive Director of Medical International Cooperation Organization (MEDICO), Malcolm W. Dooley, and Gabrielle Dooley and their children, Malcolm Jr., Thomas, and Michael; Senator John A. Carroll (Colorado); Senator Claiborne Pell (Rhode Island); Director of the U.S. Mint, Eva Adams; Representative Frank M. Karsten (Missouri); Representative Hugh L. Carey (New York); Editor-in-Chief of Farrar, Straus, & Cudahy, Robert Giroux; Representative Leonor K. Sullivan (Missouri); author, Lucille Selsor; Senator Stuart Symington (Missouri); Senator Edward V. Long (Missouri); Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (Minnesota). Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
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President John F. Kennedy presents the posthumous Dr. Thomas A. Dooley III Congressional Gold Medal to Dr. Dooley’s mother, Agnes Wise Dooley (center left). Also pictured: Executive Director of Medical International Cooperation Organization (MEDICO), Malcolm W. Dooley, and Gabrielle Dooley and their children, Malcolm Jr., Thomas, and Michael; Representative Henry S. Reuss (Wisconsin); Senator John A. Carroll (Colorado); Director of the U.S. Mint, Eva Adams; Senator Claiborne Pell (Rhode Island); Representative Frank M. Karsten (Missouri); Representative Hugh L. Carey (New York); Editor-in-Chief of Farrar, Straus, & Cudahy, Robert Giroux; Representative Leonor K. Sullivan (Missouri); author, Lucille Selsor; Senator Stuart Symington (Missouri); former press secretary for Dr. Dooley, Robert T. Copenhaver, of Mutual of Omaha; Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (Minnesota). Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
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President John F. Kennedy presents the posthumous Dr. Thomas A. Dooley III Congressional Gold Medal to Dr. Dooley’s mother, Agnes Wise Dooley (center left). Also pictured: Executive Director of Medical International Cooperation Organization (MEDICO), Malcolm W. Dooley, and Gabrielle Dooley and their children, Malcolm Jr., Thomas, and Michael; Representative Henry S. Reuss (Wisconsin); Senator John A. Carroll (Colorado); Director of the U.S. Mint, Eva Adams; Senator Claiborne Pell (Rhode Island); Representative Frank M. Karsten (Missouri); Representative Hugh L. Carey (New York); Editor-in-Chief of Farrar, Straus, & Cudahy, Robert Giroux; Representative Leonor K. Sullivan (Missouri); author, Lucille Selsor; Senator Stuart Symington (Missouri); former press secretary for Dr. Dooley, Robert T. Copenhaver, of Mutual of Omaha; Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (Minnesota). Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
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President John F. Kennedy presents the posthumous Dr. Thomas A. Dooley III Congressional Gold Medal to Dr. Dooley’s mother, Agnes Wise Dooley (center left). Also pictured: Executive Director of Medical International Cooperation Organization (MEDICO), Malcolm W. Dooley, and Gabrielle Dooley and their children, Malcolm Jr., Thomas, and Michael; Representative Henry S. Reuss (Wisconsin); Senator John A. Carroll (Colorado); Director of the U.S. Mint, Eva Adams; Senator Claiborne Pell (Rhode Island); Representative Frank M. Karsten (Missouri); Representative Hugh L. Carey (New York); Editor-in-Chief of Farrar, Straus, & Cudahy, Robert Giroux; Senator Stuart Symington (Missouri); former press secretary for Dr. Dooley, Robert T. Copenhaver, of Mutual of Omaha; Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (Minnesota). Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
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President John F. Kennedy presents the posthumous Dr. Thomas A. Dooley III Congressional Gold Medal to Dr. Dooley’s mother, Agnes Wise Dooley (center left). Also pictured: Executive Director of Medical International Cooperation Organization (MEDICO), Malcolm W. Dooley, and Gabrielle Dooley and their children, Malcolm Jr., Thomas, and Michael; Representative Henry S. Reuss (Wisconsin); Senator John A. Carroll (Colorado); Director of the U.S. Mint, Eva Adams; Senator Claiborne Pell (Rhode Island); Representative Frank M. Karsten (Missouri); Representative Hugh L. Carey (New York); Representative Leonor K. Sullivan (Missouri); author, Lucille Selsor; former press secretary for Dr. Dooley, Robert T. Copenhaver, of Mutual of Omaha; Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (Minnesota). Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.