Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-269-30-62
President John F. Kennedy and President of Panama, Roberto F. Chiari, attend the arrival ceremony in honor of President Chiari. On the reviewing platform (L-R): President Chiari; Minister of Foreign Relations of Panama, Dr. Galileo Solis (mostly hidden); Commandant of the Marine Corps, General David M. Shoup (mostly hidden); President Kennedy; U.S. Secretary of State, Dean Rusk (mostly hidden); and U.S. Ambassador to Panama, Joseph S. Farland. Aide-de-Camp to President Chiari, Lieutenant Federico Boyd, stands left of the platform. Also pictured: Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, Edwin M. Martin; Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Dr. José A. Mora; former President of Panama, Ricardo Arias Espinosa; Ambassador of Colombia and Chairman of the Council of OAS, Alberto Zuleta Angel; Minister of Finance and the Treasury of Panama, Dr. Gilberto Arias; Ambassador of Nicaragua and Dean of the Diplomatic Corps, Dr. Guillermo Sevilla-Sacasa; Chief of Protocol of Panama, Camilo Levy Salcedo; owner of Radio Programas Continentales (Continental Radio Programs), Fernando Eleta; Director of the Office of Central American and Panamanian Affairs at the Department of State, Katherine W. Bracken; and Security Officer for the Department of State, James M. McDermott. The United States Army Band stands in the background. Military Air Transport Service (MATS) terminal, Washington National Airport, Washington, D.C.