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White House Photographs
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At the White House Correspondents and News Photographers Dinner, William H. Y. Knighton, Jr., President of the White House Correspondents’ Association (center), presents Prime Minister Harold Macmillan of Great Britain and President John F. Kennedy with gifts. President Kennedy holds a silver replica of the inkstand used during the signing of the Declaration of Independence; Prime Minister Macmillan holds a silver cigar box modeled on a colonial tobacco box. Both gifts were made by William deMatteo, a silversmith at Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia. Main ballroom, Sheraton Park Hotel, Washington, D.C.
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