Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-192-2-62
President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy host a dinner in honor of Minister of State for Cultural Affairs of France, André Malraux. President Kennedy, violinist Isaac Stern, Mrs. Kennedy, and pianist Madeleine Malraux (wife of the minister) stand before guests in the East Room. Also pictured: Frances Scott “Scottie” Fitzgerald Lanahan; Erma Lee Udall and Secretary of the Interior, Stewart L. Udall; socialite and artist, Margaret Eustis Finley; White House correspondent for Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), George Herman; Dorothy Léger and poet Alexis Léger (Saint-John Perse); Bettine “Betsy” Tyler and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs, William R. Tyler; philanthropist and art collector, Jayne Wrightsman; Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, William A. M. Burden, Jr.; Special Consultant to President Kennedy on the Arts, August Heckscher; French Ambassador to the United States, Hervé Alphand. White House, Washington, D.C.