Photograph
White House Photographs
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President John F. Kennedy, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, and their children visit with Emperor of Ethiopia, Haile Selassie I, on the West Wing Lawn of the White House. Emperor Selassie presents a gift of a carved ivory figurine to John F. Kennedy, Jr. Minister of the Imperial Court of Ethiopia, Tafarra-Worq Kidane-Wold, stands at far left; Caroline Kennedy stands mostly hidden behind Emperor Selassie. The Emperor also presented as gifts to the Kennedy family a leopard coat and gold filigree jewelry case for the First Lady and a carved ivory figurine for Caroline. Washington, D.C.