Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR7552-B
President John F. Kennedy meets with Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union (USSR), Andrei Gromyko. Seated (L-R): Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union, Vladimir S. Semenov; Soviet Ambassador to the United States, Anatoliy Fedorovich Dobrynin; Minister Gromyko; President Kennedy (in rocking chair). Also pictured: US State Department interpreter, Alexander Akalovsky (standing at far right); United Press International (UPI) photographer, Frank Cancellare (far left in background); White House Secret Service agent, Frank Yeager, stands in back (behind photographers). Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
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