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Sound recording
White House Audio Collection
JFKWHA-193-002
Sound recording of President John F. Kennedy’s remarks upon the presentation of The President's Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service in the new flower garden of the White House to Dr. Fred L. Whipple, astronomer and director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory; David D. Thomas, Director of Air Traffic Service for the Federal Aviation Agency; Dr. Sherman E. Johnson, Associate Administrator of the Economic Research Service of the Department of Agriculture; Dr. Alain C. Enthoven, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Systems Analysis; and Ambassador Winthrop G. Brown, Deputy Commandant for Foreign Affairs of the National War College.
Sound recording
White House Audio Collection
JFKWHA-117-004
Sound recording of President John F. Kennedy’s remarks upon the presentation of The President’s Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service on the White House South Lawn to J. Stanley Baughman, President of the Federal National Mortgage Association of the Housing and Home Finance Agency; Dr. Robert R. Gilruth, Director of the Manned Spacecraft Center, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA); Dr. Donald E. Gregg, Chief of the Department of Cardiorespiratory Diseases at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research; Dr. Frances O. Kelsey, Medical Officer at the Food and Drug Administration; Mrs. Waldo K. Lyon, accepting for her husband, Head of the Submarine and Arctic Research Branch at the Navy Electronics Laboratory; and Llewellyn E. Thompson, Career Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Austria, and the former Soviet Union.