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President John F. Kennedy laughs with President of the Congressional Medal of Honor Society, Luther Skaggs, Jr., during a program at the White House to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Congressional Medal of Honor; visitors include descendants of Civil War Congressional Medal of Honor recipients. Left to right: President Kennedy; Chairman of the District of Columbia Civil War Centennial Commission, Paul J. Sedgwick (in back); Mr. Skaggs, Jr.; unidentified; Marshall B. Wenger (great-great-grandson of two of the first recipients of the Medal, Jacob Parrott and Wilson W. Brown); White House correspondent for United Press International (UPI), Helen Thomas (in back, partially hidden); and an unidentified reporter. West Wing Lawn, White House, Washington, D.C.
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Luncheon in honor of Chen Cheng, Vice President of the Republic of China. (L – R): Vice President Chen; President John F. Kennedy; Vice President Lyndon Johnson; Tan Xiang, wife of Vice President Chen; Secretary of State Dean Rusk; various reporters in the background, including White House correspondent for United Press International (UPI) Helen Thomas (far right). North Portico, White House, Washington, D.C.
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President John F. Kennedy meets with Prime Minister Abubakar Tafawa Balewa of Nigeria. Prime Minister Balewa; President Kennedy; various reporters in background, including White House correspondent for United Press International (UPI) Helen Thomas (second row, second from left). West Wing Entrance, White House, Washington, D.C.
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State dinner in honor of President Mohammad Ayub Khan of Pakistan. (L – R) Naval Aide to the President Commander Tazewell Shepard, Jr.; President John F. Kennedy; President Mohammad Ayub Khan; Rosamonde R. Beirne, Regent of the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association (at top of stairs, wearing medallion with blue and gold ribbon); Ohio Congresswoman Frances Bolton (far right, near door). Various guests, photographers, and reporters, including White House correspondent for United Press International (UPI), Helen Thomas (behind seated photographer). Mount Vernon, Virginia.
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First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy opens the newly refurbished Treaty Room (formerly the Monroe Room). L-R: Senator Mike Mansfield (Montana); Archivist of the United States, Dr. Wayne C. Grover; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Mrs. Kennedy; two unidentified reporters; White House correspondent for United Press International (UPI), Helen Thomas. White House Washington, D.C.
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First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy speaks with Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson at the opening of the newly refurbished Treaty Room (formerly the Monroe Room). Senator Everett Dirksen (Illinois) leans over table at left; White House correspondent for United Press International (UPI), Helen Thomas, stands at right (wearing white jacket). White House Washington, D.C.
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First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy enters the White House with former first lady and honorary co-chairman of the National Cultural Center Campaign, Mamie Eisenhower; Mrs. Eisenhower attended Mrs. Kennedy's tea for National Cultural Center Campaign officials. First Lady's Social Secretary, Letitia Baldrige, stands at far left in doorway. Members of the press observe, including White House correspondent for United Press International (UPI), Helen Thomas, and Washington Correspondent for the Guy Gannett Publishing Company of Maine, May Craig. North Portico, White House, Washington, D.C.
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President John F. Kennedy and Prime Minister of Australia, Robert Gordon Menzies (center left), exit the White House following a luncheon in honor of Prime Minister Menzies. Also pictured: White House Secret Service agent, Jack Warner; Deputy Chief of Protocol, William J. Tonesk; White House correspondent for United Press International (UPI), Helen Thomas; and Ambassador of Australia, Sir Howard Beale. West Wing Entrance, White House, Washington, D.C.
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President John F. Kennedy delivers remarks to participants of the Brookings Institution's Public Policy Conference for Business Executives. White House correspondent for United Press International (UPI), Helen Thomas, stands at far right. Rose Garden, White House, Washington, D.C. [Please see the President’s schedule for a complete list of attendees.]
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President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy attend the Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation First International Awards Dinner for achievement in research, service, and leadership in the field of intellectual disability (then referred to as "mental retardation"). Left to right: United States Ambassador to the United Nations (UN) and Master of Ceremonies, Adlai Stevenson; President Kennedy; Mrs. Kennedy; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson. Also pictured (in background): White House correspondent for United Press International (UPI), Helen Thomas; White House Press Secretary, Pierre Salinger. Statler Hilton Hotel, Washington, D.C.
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First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union, Anastas Mikoyan (center right), speaks with members of the press following a meeting with President John F. Kennedy. White House correspondent for United Press International (UPI), Helen Thomas, stands behind Mr. Mikoyan. West Wing Entrance, White House, Washington, D.C.
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President John F. Kennedy visits with members of the Panel of Consultants on Vocational Education of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW). Left to right: President Kennedy; Superintendent of Schools of the City of Chicago and chairman of the panel, Benjamin C. Willis; Secretary of HEW, Anthony J. Celebrezze; Director of the Vocational Education Study, J. Chester Swanson; unidentified; White House correspondent for United Press International (UPI), Helen Thomas; Professor of Education and Director of Distributive Education Institutes at Ohio State University, William Boyd Logan; two unidentified; philanthropist, Mary C. Bingham, of the Louisville Courier-Journal; and several unidentified persons. Rose Garden, White House, Washington D.C. [See the President's appointment book for a full list of attendees.]
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President John F. Kennedy bids farewell to Chancellor of West Germany, Dr. Konrad Adenauer (inside car), following a meeting. White House correspondent for United Press International (UPI), Helen Thomas, stands left of President Kennedy; unidentified photographers and reporters observe. West Wing Entrance, White House, Washington, D.C.
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President John F. Kennedy (in rocking chair) meets with Governor-elect of Georgia, Carl Sanders. Those standing in background include: Secretary to the Assistant Press Secretary, Barbara Gamarekian; Special Assistant to the President, Dave Powers; White House correspondent for United Press International (UPI), Helen Thomas. Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
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President John F. Kennedy (in rocking chair) meets with Governor-elect of Georgia, Carl Sanders. Those standing in background include: Secretary to the Assistant Press Secretary, Barbara Gamarekian; Special Assistant to the President, Dave Powers; White House correspondent for United Press International (UPI), Helen Thomas. Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
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President John F. Kennedy attends a ceremony honoring the achievements of the Federal Vocational Rehabilitation Program. The ceremony commemorated the program’s rehabilitation of 100,000 people who were trained for a new vocation after becoming disabled. (L-R): Unidentified; Anthony Celebrezze, Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare; Mary K. Friskie; President Kennedy; Edward A. Friskie of Boswell, Pennsylvania (“Mr. Rehabilitation” of 1962), the representative of participants in the Rehabilitation program; Mary E. Switzer, Commissioner of the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation at the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Reporters, including White House correspondent for United Press International (UPI) Helen Thomas, look on from behind the group. Rose Garden, White House, Washington, D.C.
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President John F. Kennedy visits with members of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs (NACWC) in the Oval Office; the visitors presented President Kennedy with a portrait of Abraham Lincoln. Members present include: National President of the NACWC, Dr. Rosa Gragg; Lucinda E. Bryant of Yakima, Washington; Fannye J. Benford of Gary, Indiana; Jean Murrell Capers of Cleveland, Ohio; Melnea Cass of Roxbury, Massachusetts; Jessie Mae David; Mabel E. Diggs of Boston, Massachusetts; Georgia Dungey of Kalamazoo, Michigan; Joyce Ford of Albany, New York; Ester Greenlee of Los Angeles, California; Mame Higgins; Carrie Pitts Hill of New York City; Chairman of the Elections Committee, Mae Jacobs (of Cleveland, Ohio); Bernice C. Lindsay of Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Birdie Moore of Columbus, Ohio; Mamie Moore of Columbus, Ohio; Daisy Murrell of West Palm Beach, Florida; Myrtle Ollison of Shawnee, Oklahoma; Dr. Mamie B. Reese of Albany, Georgia; Willie L. Taylor of Clarksdale, Mississippi. Also pictured: Special Assistants to the President, Kenneth P. O’Donnell and Ralph Dungan; White House correspondent for United Press International (UPI), Helen Thomas; White House Secret Service agent, Frank Yeager. White House, Washington, D.C.
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President John F. Kennedy listens as Senator Ernest Gruening of Alaska (left, in front of microphones) addresses a group of Eskimo and Alaskan Indian electronics trainees in the Rose Garden of the White House, Washington, D.C. Also pictured: trainees Herman Kitka, Jr., Sam Kito, Jr., Russell W. Attwood, Arthur H. Peterson, Morgan Aukongak, Harry Kito, and Percy Ipalook, Jr.; Secretary of the Interior, Stewart L. Udall; Senator E. L. “Bob” Bartlett (Alaska); Commissioner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in the Department of the Interior, Philleo Nash; President of the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) Institutes, George F. Maedel; Director of Training at RCA, Harold Fezer; White House correspondent for United Press International (UPI), Helen Thomas; intern in the White House Press Office, Mimi Beardsley; White House Secret Service agent, Jack Warner. Standing in the back of the audience are Mary Alice Fultz, Mary Louise Fultz, Mary Anne Fultz, and Mary Catherine Fultz, a set of quadruplets who visited the White House to meet President Kennedy. Rose Garden, White House, Washington, D.C. [Please see the President’s schedule for a complete list of attendees.]
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President John F. Kennedy addresses a group of Eskimo and Alaskan Indian electronics trainees, including: Russell W. Attwood, Margie Aukongak, Morgan Aukongak, Percy Ipalook, Jr., Harry Kito, Sam Kito, Jr., Herman Kitka, Jr., Arthur H. Peterson, Joseph Pungowiyi, Peter J. Tocktoo, and Gordon Upicksoun. Also pictured: Secretary of the Interior, Stewart L. Udall; Senator Ernest Gruening (Alaska); Senator E. L. “Bob” Bartlett (Alaska); Assistant Press Secretary, Malcolm Kilduff; White House correspondent for United Press International (UPI), Helen Thomas; intern in the White House Press Office, Mimi Beardsley; White House Secret Service agents, Mike Mastrovito and Jack Warner. Standing in the back of the audience are Mary Alice Fultz, Mary Louise Fultz, Mary Anne Fultz, and Mary Catherine Fultz, a set of quadruplets who visited the White House to meet President Kennedy. Rose Garden, White House, Washington, D.C. [Please see the President’s schedule for a complete list of attendees.]
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President John F. Kennedy (back to camera) speaks to students from the Inter-American University Association of São Paulo, Brazil (Associação Universitária Inter-Americana). Also present: Ambassador of Brazil, Roberto de Oliveira Campos; White House correspondent for United Press International (UPI), Helen Thomas; White House Secret Service agent, Toby Chandler. West Wing Lawn, White House, Washington D.C.
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Representative Hale Boggs (Louisiana) speaks to reporters at a Legislative Leaders Breakfast. Standing in group at right (L-R): Representative Carl Albert (Oklahoma); Speaker of the House of Representatives, John W. McCormack (Massachusetts); Representative Boggs (at microphones); Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Senate Majority Leader, Mike Mansfield (Montana); Senator George A. Smathers (Florida); Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (Minnesota). Also pictured: White House correspondent for UPI, Helen Thomas (in group at left); Special Assistant to the President for Congressional Relations, Larry O'Brien (in background at right). West Wing Lawn, White House, Washington, D.C.
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President John F. Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy stand with President of the Republic of Ecuador, Dr. Carlos Julio Arosemena Monroy, and First Lady of the Republic of Ecuador, Gladys Peet de Arosemena, at the North Portico of the White House, Washington, D.C. President Arosemena Monroy and Mrs. Arosemena visited the White House to attend a luncheon in their honor. Left to right (in foreground): Lady Bird Johnson; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; President Arosemena Monroy; President Kennedy; Mrs. Arosemena; Mrs. Kennedy. Also pictured: Military Aide to President Kennedy, General Chester V. Clifton; Naval Aide to President Kennedy, Captain Tazewell T. Shepard, Jr.; Robin Chandler Duke (wife of U.S. Chief of Protocol, Angier Biddle Duke); White House correspondent for United Press International (UPI), Helen Thomas; UPI photographer, Frank Cancellare.
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President John F. Kennedy visits with Stan Musial, Major League Baseball (MLB) player for the St. Louis Cardinals, and his family. Left to right: President Kennedy; Mr. Musial; his wife, Lillian Musial, and daughter, Janet Musial. In the background (L-R): White House Secret Service agent, Charlie Kunkel (mostly hidden); White House correspondent for United Press International (UPI), Helen Thomas; unidentified. Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
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President John F. Kennedy (center left, partially hidden in crowd) visits with guests in the Rose Garden of the White House, Washington, D.C., following the presentation of the Distinguished Service Medal (DSM) to retiring Chief of Staff of the United States Army, General George H. Decker. Those pictured include: Senator Stuart Symington (Missouri); Washington Correspondent for the Guy Gannett Publishing Company of Maine, May Craig; White House correspondent for United Press International (UPI), Helen Thomas; Under Secretary of the Army, Stephen Ailes; Military Aide to the President, General Chester V. Clifton; General Decker; Secretary of the Army, Cyrus R. Vance; General Maxwell D. Taylor; Secretary of Defense, Robert S. McNamara. [Please see the President's schedule for a complete list of attendees.]
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President John F. Kennedy (left) visits with members of the Mexico-United States Interparliamentary Group. Also pictured: White House Communications Agency (WHCA) officer, Joseph W. Culbreth; White House correspondent for United Press International (UPI), Helen Thomas; White House Secret Service agent, Jack Ready. Rose Garden, White House, Washington, D.C. [Please see the President’s schedule for a complete list of attendees.]