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Presentation ceremony of the President’s Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service. Medical Officer for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey (center), stands on the West Wing Lawn with members of her family after receiving the award from President John F. Kennedy. Dr. Kelsey's husband and Special Assistant to the Surgeon General of the United States, Dr. F. Ellis Kelsey, stands in center left; their daughters, Susan Kelsey and Christine Kelsey, stand third and fifth from left (respectively); others are unidentified. Those standing in the West Wing Colonnade include: Presidential Assistant, John J. McNally; White House Secret Service agent, Jack Ready. White House, Washington, D.C.
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President John F. Kennedy (at microphones) delivers remarks at the presentation ceremony of the President’s Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service. Standing in background (L-R): award recipient and Medical Officer for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey; 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; award recipient and Director of the Manned Spacecraft Center, Dr. Robert Gilruth; Secretary of the Army, Cyrus R. Vance; Naval Aide to the President, Captain Tazewell T. Shepard, Jr.; New York Times photographer, George Tames; 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; Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (Minnesota); White House Secret Service agent, Jack Ready (very back, standing in West Wing Colonnade); Senator Estes Kefauver (Tennessee); Presidential Assistant, John J. McNally (very back, partially hidden); 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.; 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 presents the award to Chief of the Department of Cardiorespiratory Diseases at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Dr. Donald E. Gregg (center). Standing in background (L-R): astronaut Colonel John H. Glenn, Jr.; award recipient and Director of the Manned Spacecraft Center, Dr. Robert Gilruth; Naval Aide to the President, Captain Tazewell T. Shepard, Jr. (in back, mostly hidden); unidentified; Associated Press (AP) photographer, Henry Burroughs; Secretary of the Army, Cyrus R. Vance; 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); White House Secret Service agent, Jack Ready (very back, standing in West Wing Colonnade); 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. West Wing Lawn, White House, Washington, D.C.