Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR7400-G
Presentation ceremony of the President’s Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service. President John F. Kennedy presents the award to Career Ambassador, Llewellyn E. Thompson (center left). Looking on (L-R): Secretary of State, Dean Rusk; award recipient and Director of the Manned Spacecraft Center, Dr. Robert Gilruth (in back); Associated Press (AP) photographer, Henry Burroughs; Naval Aide to the President, Captain Tazewell T. Shepard, Jr.; Administrator of the Housing and Home Finance Agency (HHFA), Robert C. Weaver; award recipient and President of the Federal National Mortgage Association of the HHFA, J. Stanley Baughman (partially hidden); Senator Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota (partially hidden); Representative Kenneth A. Roberts (Alabama); Senator Estes Kefauver (Tennessee); Senator John A. Carroll (Colorado); Chairman of the Distinguished Civilian Service Awards Board and Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Dr. James E. Webb; Senator Frank Carlson (Kansas); Executive Secretary of the Distinguished Civilian Service Awards Board and Chairman of the U.S. Civil Service Commission, John W. Macy, Jr. West Wing Lawn, White House, Washington, D.C.