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President John F. Kennedy (center left, at microphone) delivers remarks in the Rose Garden before presenting the National Geographic Society’s Hubbard Medal to members of the first American expedition team to summit Mount Everest. Expedition Leader, Norman Dyhrenfurth, and National Geographic Society President, Melville B. Grosvenor, stand right of President Kennedy. Members of the team (standing behind the President) include: William Siri; Daniel Doody; Dave Dingman; Barry Corbet; Barry Bishop; Allen Auten; Maynard Miller; James Lester; Lute Jerstad; Tom Hornbein; Dick Pownall; and Richard Emerson. Those pictured in the crowd include National Park Service (NPS) Photographer, Abbie Rowe; White House correspondent for United Press International (UPI), Helen Thomas; Ambassador of Nepal, Matrika Prasad Koirala; Ambassador of India, B. K. Nehru; and Vice-President for Research and Exploration at the National Geographic Society, Leonard Carmichael. White House Washington, D.C.
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View of ceremony for the presentation of the National Geographic Society’s Hubbard Medal to the first American expedition team to summit Mount Everest. President of the National Geographic Society, Melville B. Grosvenor (center, at the microphone), addresses attendees; President John F. Kennedy stands left of Grosvenor. Standing behind the President (lower edge of frame), left to right: William Siri; Daniel Doody; Dave Dingman; Barry Corbet; Barry Bishop; Allen Auten; Expedition Leader, Norman Dyhrenfurth; and unidentified. Those pictured in the crowd include: National Park Service (NPS) Photographer, Abbie Rowe; White House correspondent for United Press International (UPI), Helen Thomas; Ambassador of Nepal, Matrika Prasad Koirala; Ambassador of India, B. K. Nehru; and Vice-President for Research and Exploration at the National Geographic Society, Leonard Carmichael. Rose Garden, White House, Washington, D.C.
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President John F. Kennedy speaks before an audience at a ceremony marking the 50th anniversary of the first state Workmen's Compensation Law, enacted in Wisconsin in 1911, on the South Lawn driveway at the White House, Washington, D.C. Among those seated behind the President are: Postmaster General, J. Edward Day; Governor of Wisconsin, Gaylord Nelson; Secretary of the Treasury, C. Douglas Dillon; Secretary of Labor, Arthur Goldberg; Under Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare Ivan A. Nestingen; and the only living members of the 1911 Wisconsin legislature, former Wisconsin state Senator Theodore W. Brazeau and Judge Edward T. Fairchild. Also pictured: National Park Service (NPS) Photographer, Abbie Rowe; White House Secret Service agent, Bob Lilley. [Discoloration is original to the negative.]
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President John F. Kennedy visits with the Catholic University Players before their eighth overseas tour (performing “The Merchant of Venice” in Germany, in connection with the American Educational Theatre Association and United Service Organizations Inc.), as members of the news media look on. Also pictured: White House correspondent for National Broadcasting Company (NBC), Sander Vanocur; National Park Service (NPS) photographer, Abbie Rowe; White House media network electrician, Cleve Ryan. Rose Garden, White House, Washington, D.C.
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President John F. Kennedy speaks at arrival ceremonies for President of Togo, Sylvanus Olympio. On platform (L-R): President Olympio; President Kennedy; Togolese Ambassador to the United States, Dr. André Akakpo; Under Secretary of State, George Ball (in back); US Ambassador to Togo, Leon B. Poullada; US Chief of Protocol, Angier Biddle Duke. Also pictured: Air Force Aide to President Kennedy, Brigadier General Godfrey T. McHugh (below platform at left); Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs of Togo, Dr. Hospice Coco (in group behind platform); Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, G. Mennen “Soapy” Williams (in group behind platform); Naval Aide to President Kennedy, Captain Tazewell Shepard (behind platform at right, hands folded); National Park Service (NPS) Photographer, Abbie Rowe (bottom left corner of image, wearing glasses). US Marine Band stands in background. Military Air Transport Service (MATS) Terminal, Washington National Airport, Washington, D.C. [Blemishes in upper left portion of image are original to the negative.]
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President of Togo, Sylvanus Olympio, speaks at arrival ceremonies in his honor. On platform (L-R): President John F. Kennedy; President Olympio (at microphones); Ambassador of Nicaragua and Dean of the Diplomatic Corps, Dr. Guillermo Sevilla-Sacasa (in back, below platform); Togolese Ambassador to the United States, Dr. André Akakpo; Chief of Staff of the United States Army, General George H. Decker (behind Ambassador Akakpo, wearing hat); Under Secretary of State, George Ball; US Ambassador to Togo, Leon B. Poullada; US Chief of Protocol, Angier Biddle Duke. Also pictured: Air Force Aide to President Kennedy, Brigadier General Godfrey T. McHugh (below platform at left); Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs of Togo, Dr. Hospice Coco (in group behind platform); Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, G. Mennen “Soapy” Williams (in group behind platform); Naval Aide to President Kennedy, Captain Tazewell Shepard (behind platform at right, hands folded); National Park Service (NPS) Photographer, Abbie Rowe (bottom right foreground, facing camera). US Marine Band stands in background. Military Air Transport Service (MATS) Terminal, Washington National Airport, Washington, D.C.
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President John F. Kennedy meets with William V.S. Tubman, President of Liberia. President Kennedy (seated in rocking chair); President Tubman (right of President Kennedy, holding cigar, back to camera); Elbert G. Mathews, Ambassador to Liberia (behind and left of President Kennedy, back to camera); Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, George Ball (seated on couch, facing camera); National Park Service (NPS) Photographer, Abbie Rowe (far right); other unidentified photographers. Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
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President John F. Kennedy meets with William V.S. Tubman, President of Liberia. President Kennedy (seated in rocking chair); President Tubman (right of President Kennedy, holding cigar, back to camera); Elbert G. Mathews, Ambassador to Liberia (behind and left of President Kennedy, back to camera); Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, George Ball (seated on couch, facing camera); National Park Service (NPS) Photographer, Abbie Rowe (far right); other unidentified photographers. Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
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President John F. Kennedy meets with William V.S. Tubman, President of Liberia. President Kennedy (seated in rocking chair); President Tubman (right of President Kennedy, holding cigar, back to camera); Elbert G. Mathews, Ambassador to Liberia (behind and left of President Kennedy, back to camera); Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, George Ball (seated on couch, facing camera); National Park Service (NPS) Photographer, Abbie Rowe (far right); other unidentified photographers. Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
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Arrival ceremonies for President of Chile, Jorge Alessandri Rodríguez, on the South Lawn of the White House, Washington, D.C. President John F. Kennedy, President Alessandri Rodríguez, and other dignitaries stand on reviewing platform at right; military honor guards and color guards stand at attention. Also pictured: National Park Service (NPS) photographer, Abbie Rowe; Secretary to the Assistant Press Secretary, Barbara Gamarekian; White House Secret Service agent, Ken Giannoules. The Washington Monument and Jefferson Memorial are visible in background.
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President John F. Kennedy signs the Interdiction of the Delivery of Offensive Weapons to Cuba. Photographers and reporters observe. Those pictured include: White House Photographer, Captain Cecil Stoughton (center left, leaning over far corner of desk); National Park Service (NPS) Photographer, Abbie Rowe (standing by right corner of desk, face partially hidden behind camera); United Press International (UPI) photographer, James K. W. Atherton (at right, bending over). Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
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President John F. Kennedy (mostly hidden) visits with a group of Civil Air Patrol cadets in the Rose Garden of the White House, Washington, D.C. Also pictured: Air Force Aide to the President, Brigadier General Godfrey T. McHugh; National Park Service (NPS) Photographer, Abbie Rowe; White House photographer, Captain Cecil Stoughton; White House Secret Service agent, Roy Kellerman.
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President John F. Kennedy visits with a group of Civil Air Patrol cadets in the Rose Garden of the White House, Washington, D.C. Also pictured: National Park Service (NPS) Photographer, Abbie Rowe; United Press International (UPI) photographer, James K. W. Atherton; Air Force Aide to the President, Brigadier General Godfrey T. McHugh; White House Stenographer, Jack Romagna; White House Secret Service agent, Roy Kellerman; White House correspondent for United Press International (UPI), Helen Thomas; Special Assistant to the President, John J. McNally.
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President John F. Kennedy (center) visits with a group of Civil Air Patrol cadets in the Rose Garden of the White House, Washington, D.C. Also pictured: White House Secret Service agent, Roy Kellerman; United Press International (UPI) photographer, James K. W. Atherton; Air Force Aide to the President, Brigadier General Godfrey T. McHugh; White House Secret Service agent, Bob Lilley; National Park Service (NPS) Photographer, Abbie Rowe.
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President John F. Kennedy visits with a group of Civil Air Patrol cadets in the Rose Garden of the White House, Washington, D.C. Also pictured: United Press International (UPI) photographer, James K. W. Atherton; National Park Service (NPS) Photographer, Abbie Rowe; White House photographer, Captain Cecil Stoughton; Air Force Aide to the President, Brigadier General Godfrey T. McHugh; Special Assistant to the President, John J. McNally; White House correspondent for United Press International (UPI), Helen Thomas; White House Secret Service agent, Roy Kellerman.
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President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy (both in center right background, seen from above) greet guests gathered in Cross Hall, during a Christmas party for White House staff; staff members fill the hallway leading into the State Dining Room. Also pictured: Military Aide to the President General Chester V. Clifton; First Lady’s Social Secretary, Letitia Baldrige; National Park Service (NPS) photographer, Abbie Rowe; White House Secret Service agents, Clint Hill and Toby Chandler. White House, Washington, D.C.
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View of the Oval Office during President John F. Kennedy's meeting with officers and members of the United States Commission on Civil Rights, at which the President (back center) received a bound volume of the United States Commission on Civil Rights' report, "Freedom to the Free." Those pictured include: Robert S. Rankin, Chairman of the Political Science Department at Duke University; William L. Taylor, Commission Assistant Staff Director for Liaison and Information; Berl I. Bernhard, Commission Staff Director; M. Carl Holman, Commission Information Officer; Robert G. Storey, Commission Vice Chairman and President of the Southwestern Legal Center; Clarence Clyde Ferguson, Jr., Commission General Counsel; Erwin N. Griswold, Dean of Harvard Law School; and Reverend Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., President of Notre Dame University; National Park Service (NPS) Photographer, Abbie Rowe (right, back to camera), and other unidentified photographers. White House, Washington, D.C. [Scratches are original to the negative]
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President John F. Kennedy (in rocking chair) meets with State Secretary of the German Foreign Office, Dr. Karl Carstens. Also pictured: White House photographer, Chief Robert Knudsen; National Park Service (NPS) photographer, Abbie Rowe; and White House media network electrician, Cleve Ryan. Oval Office, White House, Washington D.C.
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President John F. Kennedy (center foreground, holding hat) attends the dedication ceremony for Dulles International Airport, named after the late Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles. Administrator of the Federal Aviation Agency (FAA), Najeeb Halaby, stands left of President Kennedy; unidentified photographers observe. Also pictured: Aline B. Saarinen (widow of the architect for the airport, Eero Saarinen); National Park Service (NPS) Photographer, Abbie Rowe; White House Secret Service agents, Ron Pontius and Dick Johnsen. Chantilly, Virginia.
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President John F. Kennedy (in rocking chair) visits with author and poet, Carl Sandburg. Standing in background: National Park Service (NPS) photographer, Abbie Rowe; Secretary to the Assistant Press Secretary, Barbara Gamarekian; Special Assistant to the President, Dave Powers; White House Secret Service agent, Lubert L. "Bert" de Freese. Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
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President John F. Kennedy (in rocking chair) meets with Prime Minister of Laos, Prince Souvanna Phouma (seated on sofa at right), in the Oval Office of the White House, Washington, D.C. Seated on sofa at left (L-R): United States Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs, Roger Hilsman; unidentified (mostly obscured); Ambassador of Laos, Prince Tiao Khampan. Eight photographers, all holding cameras, stand in the background, including White House Photographer Abbie Rowe (wearing glasses, standing behind sofa at left). An unidentified man holds a camera light in the background at right. [Notes: Spotting throughout image and horizontal line along bottom edge are original to the negative.]
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President John F. Kennedy (seen from above, in crowd at center) visits with participants in the Experiment in International Living program. Also pictured: Asha Mirchandani; National Park Service (NPS) Photographer, Abbie Rowe; Chief of White House Police, Major Ralph C. "Smokey" Stover; White House correspondent for United Press International (UPI), Helen Thomas; motion picture photographer for Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), Tom J. Craven, Jr.; newsreel photographer for United Press Movietone, Thomas J. Craven, Sr.; White House Communications Agency (WHCA) officer, Oscar N. Smith; intern in the White House Press Office, Mimi Beardsley; White House media network electrician, Cleve Ryan; White House Secret Service agents, Toby Chandler and Jim Johnson. West Wing Lawn, White House, Washington, D.C.
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President John F. Kennedy (seen from above, in crowd at center right) visits with participants in the Experiment in International Living program. Also pictured: Asha Mirchandani; National Park Service (NPS) Photographer, Abbie Rowe; Chief of White House Police, Major Ralph C. "Smokey" Stover; White House correspondent for United Press International (UPI), Helen Thomas; motion picture photographer for Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), Tom J. Craven, Jr.; newsreel photographer for United Press Movietone, Thomas J. Craven, Sr.; White House Communications Agency (WHCA) officer, Oscar N. Smith; intern in the White House Press Office, Mimi Beardsley; White House media network electrician, Cleve Ryan; White House Secret Service agents, Toby Chandler and Jim Johnson. West Wing Lawn, White House, Washington, D.C.
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President John F. Kennedy (seen from above, in crowd at center) visits with participants in the Experiment in International Living program. Also pictured: Asha Mirchandani; National Park Service (NPS) Photographer, Abbie Rowe; Chief of White House Police, Major Ralph C. "Smokey" Stover; White House correspondent for United Press International (UPI), Helen Thomas; motion picture photographer for Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), Tom J. Craven, Jr.; newsreel photographer for United Press Movietone, Thomas J. Craven, Sr.; White House Communications Agency (WHCA) officer, Oscar N. Smith; intern in the White House Press Office, Mimi Beardsley; White House media network electrician, Cleve Ryan; White House Secret Service agents, Toby Chandler and Jim Johnson. West Wing Lawn, White House, Washington, D.C.
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President John F. Kennedy (seen from above, in crowd at center) visits with participants in the Experiment in International Living program. Also pictured: Asha Mirchandani; National Park Service (NPS) Photographer, Abbie Rowe; Chief of White House Police, Major Ralph C. "Smokey" Stover; White House correspondent for United Press International (UPI), Helen Thomas; motion picture photographer for Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), Tom J. Craven, Jr.; newsreel photographer for United Press Movietone, Thomas J. Craven, Sr.; White House Communications Agency (WHCA) officer, Oscar N. Smith; intern in the White House Press Office, Mimi Beardsley; White House media network electrician, Cleve Ryan; White House Secret Service agents, Toby Chandler and Jim Johnson. West Wing Lawn, White House, Washington, D.C.