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Sergeant First Class Harman D. Swits, III (left) presents President John F. Kennedy (wearing sunglasses) with a scale model of the Sergeant missile at the White Sands Missile Range in White Sands, New Mexico; the President visited White Sands to view missile demonstrations. Left to right: Sergeant First Class James W. Ray; SFC Swits; Chief of Staff of the United States Army, General Earle G. Wheeler; President Kennedy; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson (face obscured); White House Secret Service agent, Gerald A. "Jerry" Behn (far right, face hidden). [See also MO 63.2019, "Model of Sergeant Missile," from the John F. Kennedy Museum Collection.]
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President John F. Kennedy (center left, wearing sunglasses) views missile demonstrations at the White Sands Missile Range in White Sands, New Mexico. Seated right of President Kennedy in first row (left to right): Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson (wearing sunglasses); Senator Ralph W. Yarborough (Texas); Senator Strom Thurmond (South Carolina); Representative Ed Foreman (Texas). Also pictured: Governor of New Mexico, Jack Campbell; Chief of Staff of the United States Army, General Earle G. Wheeler; Naval Aide to the President, Captain Tazewell T. Shepard, Jr.; Special Assistant to the President, Larry O’Brien; Military Aide to the President, General Chester V. Clifton; White House Secret Service agent, Roy Kellerman. [Notes: Scratches throughout image are original to the negative.]
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President John F. Kennedy (wearing sunglasses) shakes hands with Sergeant First Class Harman D. Swits, III (left), who presented President Kennedy with a scale model of the Sergeant missile at the White Sands Missile Range in White Sands, New Mexico; the President visited White Sands to view missile demonstrations. Also pictured: Military Aide to the President, General Chester V. Clifton (holding Sergeant missile model); Sergeant First Class Jimmie Grimes; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson. [See also MO 63.2019, "Model of Sergeant Missile," from the John F. Kennedy Museum Collection.]
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Sergeant First Class Jimmie Grimes (left) presents Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson (right) with a plaque featuring a model of the Pershing missile system at the White Sands Missile Range in White Sands, New Mexico; President John F. Kennedy (not pictured) and Vice President Johnson visited the missile range to view demonstrations. Also pictured: Secretary of the Army, Cyrus R. Vance (left of Vice President Johnson); Sergeant First Class Harman D. Swits, III (far right, mostly out of frame).
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President John F. Kennedy (center, looking through binoculars) and others view missile demonstrations at the White Sands Missile Range in White Sands, New Mexico. Seated right of President Kennedy (left to right): Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Senator Ralph W. Yarborough of Texas (looking through binoculars); Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina (wearing grey suit); Representative Ed Foreman of New Mexico (face obscured by pole). Also pictured: Governor of New Mexico, Jack Campbell; Chief of Staff of the United States Army, General Earle G. Wheeler. [Notes: Scratches and blemishes in top portion of image are original to the negative.]
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President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy (partially hidden) arrive at the Rice Hotel in Houston, Texas. Walking behind: Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Lady Bird Johnson; Governor of Texas, John B. Connally, Jr.; Nellie Connally. Also pictured: Dean of the White House press corps and United Press International (UPI) reporter, Merriman "Smitty" Smith; White House Secret Service agents, Clint Hill, Jack Ready, Roy Kellerman, Rufus Youngblood, Ernie Olsson, Dick Johnsen, and Ron Pontius.
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First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy delivers remarks in Spanish during a dinner held by the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) at the Rice Hotel in Houston, Texas; President John F. Kennedy stands at right. Also pictured: Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Master of Ceremonies, John J. Herrera; National Business Manager of LULAC, David Adame; Lady Bird Johnson; dinner attendee, Olivia C. Herrera.
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Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson (wearing hat, sitting in backseat of open convertible) shakes hands with an unidentified man as his car travels through Hyannis Port, Massachusetts; a small crowd is gathered beside the car. White House Secret Service agent Arthur L. "Art" Godfrey (facing away from camera) sits in front passenger seat of car.
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Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson (center) shakes hands with Military Aide to the President, General Chester V. Clifton, while stepping off a United States Army helicopter on Squaw Island, Hyannis Port, Massachusetts. An unidentified servicemember stands at attention left of Vice President Johnson. [A diffused red line across the image is original to the negative.]
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President John F. Kennedy (left) stands with Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson outside Brambletyde house on Squaw Island, Hyannis Port, Massachusetts.
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President John F. Kennedy (right) shakes hands with astronaut Lieutenant Colonel John H. Glenn, Jr. (left) upon his arrival at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station for the presentation ceremony of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Distinguished Service Medal to Lieutenant Colonel Glenn. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson (facing camera) looks on; Senator George Smathers of Florida (center, partially hidden) stands in the background. Brevard County, Florida.
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President John F. Kennedy walks with Commanding General of the U.S. Army Missile Command, Major General Francis J. McMorrow (right), following a tour of the U.S. Army Missile Command Guidance and Control Laboratory at Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Alabama. Also pictured: Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Secretary of Defense, Robert S. McNamara; Minister of Defence of Great Britain, Peter Thorneycroft; Secretary of the Air Force, Eugene M. Zuckert; Director of the Bureau of the Budget, David E. Bell; White House Secret Service agent, Gerald A. “Jerry” Behn. President Kennedy visited Redstone Arsenal as part of a two-day inspection tour of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) field installations.
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President John F. Kennedy (right, descending helicopter stairs) arrives at El Paso International Airport in El Paso, Texas. Left to right: Colonel Thomas G. Netcher; Major General Thomas V. Stayton; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson (in background); Mayor of El Paso, Judson Williams (in foreground, back to camera and holding a hat); Governor of Texas, John Connally (wearing cowboy hat); unidentified military officer (saluting); President Kennedy; Senator Ralph W. Yarborough (Texas).
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President John F. Kennedy meets with the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) and others at the residence of C. Michael Paul in Palm Beach, Florida. Seated at table (clockwise from top): President Kennedy; Secretary of Defense, Robert S. McNamara; Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral George W. Anderson, Jr.; Commandant of the United States Marine Corps, General David M. Shoup; unidentified (back to camera); former Chief of Staff of the United States Army, General George H. Decker; former Chairman of the JCS, General Lyman L. Lemnitzer; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson. [Notes: Scratches on right hand side of image are original to the negative.]
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Representative Albert Thomas (Texas) attends a dinner in his honor at the Houston Coliseum in Houston, Texas. Standing (L-R): Representative Thomas; Lera Millard Thomas; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy; Senator Ralph W. Yarborough (Texas); unidentified; Representative George H. Mahon (Texas).
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President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy greet attendees of a dinner held by the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) at the Rice Hotel in Houston, Texas. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson stands at left.
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First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, and Lady Bird Johnson applaud during a dinner held by the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) at the Rice Hotel in Houston, Texas. Past National President of LULAC, George Garza, stands at far left; dinner attendees, Debbie Briones and Lisa Herrera, stand at left in foreground. Mariachi musicians play in background.
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President John F. Kennedy (bottom center, partially hidden) and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy (holding bouquet of yellow roses) greet Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, Lady Bird Johnson, and other members of the airport reception committee, upon their arrival aboard Air Force One at Houston International Airport in Houston, Texas. Walking down airplane stairs are (from top): Representative Jack Brooks (Texas); Military Aide to the President, General Chester V. Clifton; Senator Ralph W. Yarborough (Texas); Representative Albert Thomas (Texas); Governor of Texas, John B. Connally, Jr.; and Governor Connally's wife, Nellie Connally.
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President John F. Kennedy (center, wearing sunglasses) watches a manned weapons firepower demonstration at the Air Proving Ground Center, Eglin Air Force Base, Okaloosa County, Florida. Others pictured include: Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Air Force Aide to the President, Brigadier General Godfrey T. McHugh; Secretary of the Air Force, Eugene M. Zuckert; Commander of the Air Proving Ground Center, Major General Robert H. Warren; Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force, General Curtis E. LeMay.
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President John F. Kennedy delivers remarks at a dinner in honor of Representative Albert Thomas of Texas (seated at far right, back to camera). Seated at table at left: First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy; Senator Ralph W. Yarborough (Texas); Lera Millard Thomas; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson. Houston Coliseum, Houston, Texas.
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President John F. Kennedy (at lectern) delivers remarks, following a tour of spacecraft displays inside a hangar at the Rich Building of the Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, Texas. President Kennedy holds a scale model of the Apollo command module, presented to him by Director of the Manned Spacecraft Center, Dr. Robert Gilruth; a mock-up of the lunar lander (also known as "the Bug") sits in background. Standing in back (L-R): Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Dr. James E. Webb; Governor of Texas, Price Daniel; Associate Administrator of NASA, Dr. Robert C. Seamans, Jr.; Director of Operations for Project Mercury, Dr. Walter C. Williams; Senator Alexander Wiley (Wisconsin); Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Dr. Gilruth. The President visited the Center as part of a two-day inspection tour of NASA field installations. [See also MO 63.1913, "Model of Apollo Command Module"]
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President John F. Kennedy visits with astronaut Lieutenant Colonel John H. Glenn, Jr. (left), during a tour of spacecraft displays inside a hangar at the Rich Building of the Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, Texas; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson stands in back. President Kennedy visited the Center as part of a two-day inspection tour of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) field installations.
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President John F. Kennedy (right, back to camera) views a mock-up of the interior of a Gemini capsule, during a tour of spacecraft displays inside a hangar at the Rich Building of the Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, Texas; astronaut Major Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom (right) laughs with President Kennedy and others. Left to right: Chief of Life Systems Division at the Manned Spacecraft Center, Dr. Stanley C. White (partially out of frame); Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson (back to camera); Major Grissom; President Kennedy; unidentified (in back); Director of the Manned Spacecraft Center, Dr. Robert Gilruth; Associate Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Dr. Robert C. Seamans, Jr. (partially hidden); White House Secret Service agent, Gerald A. “Jerry” Behn. The President visited the Center as part of a two-day inspection tour of NASA field installations.
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President John F. Kennedy views a mock-up of a Gemini capsule with paraglider (partially visible at far left), during a tour of spacecraft displays inside a hangar at the Rich Building of the Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, Texas; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson (back to camera) stands left of President Kennedy. Also pictured: Director of Defense Research and Engineering for the Department of Defense, Dr. Harold Brown; Naval Aide to the President, Captain Tazewell T. Shepard, Jr.; Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Dr. James E. Webb; Director of the Manned Spacecraft Center, Dr. Robert Gilruth; Military Aide to the President, General Chester V. Clifton; Air Force Aide to the President, Brigadier General Godfrey T. McHugh; Senator Alexander Wiley (Wisconsin); Director of Manned Space Flight, D. Brainerd Holmes; White House Secret Service agent, Charlie Kunkel. The President visited the Center as part of a two-day inspection tour of NASA field installations.
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President John F. Kennedy (back to camera) tours spacecraft displays inside a hangar at the Rich Building of the Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, Texas; astronaut Commander Alan B. Shepard, Jr. (left, holding microphone), briefs President Kennedy on a mock-up of the lunar lander, also known as "the Bug" (partially visible in background). Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson and Director of the Manned Spacecraft Center, Dr. Robert Gilruth, stand at right. The President visited the Center as part of a two-day inspection tour of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) field installations.