Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR7149-B
President John F. Kennedy talks with the U.S. Advisory Commission on International Educational and Cultural Affairs in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Washington, D.C. (Clockwise from top): Reverend Theodore M. Hesburgh, President of the University of Notre Dame; Congressman Harris B. McDowell, Jr. (Delaware); Assistant Secretary of State for Education and Cultural Affairs Philip H. Coombs; Mabel M. Smythe, Principal of New Lincoln High School, New York City; President Kennedy; James R. Fleming, publisher of the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette; Congressman John J. Rooney (New York); two unidentified; Senator J. W. Fulbright of Arkansas (back to camera); Senator Warren G. Magnuson (Washington); unidentified; Dr. Franklin D. Murphy, Chancellor of University of California, Los Angeles; unidentified; Dr. John W. Gardner, Chairman of the Commission and President of the Carnegie Corporation; unidentified; Roy E. Larsen, Chairman of the Executive Committee of Time, Inc.; and Dr. Luther H. Foster, President of Tuskegee Institute. Also present at the meeting are: Walter Adams, Professor of Economics at Michigan State University; Congressman Frank T. Bow (Ohio); Congressman Wayne L. Hays (Ohio); Walter Johnson, Chairman of the Department of History at the University of Chicago; and Senator Karl E. Mundt (South Dakota).