Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR7400-F
Presentation ceremony of the President’s Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service. President John F. Kennedy (at microphones) delivers remarks prior to presenting the award to Virginia Lyon (accepting on behalf of her husband, Dr. Waldo K. Lyon, Head of the Submarine and Arctic Research Branch of the U.S. Navy Electronics Laboratory). Left to right: Secretary of the Navy, Fred Korth; Mrs. Lyon; award recipient and President of the Federal National Mortgage Association of the Housing and Home Finance Agency (HHFA), J. Stanley Baughman; Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (Minnesota); Presidential Assistant, John J. McNally (very back, standing in West Wing Colonnade); President Kennedy; Senator Estes Kefauver of Tennessee (in back); Senator John A. Carroll (Colorado); Executive Secretary of the Distinguished Civilian Service Awards Board and Chairman of the U.S. Civil Service Commission, John W. Macy, Jr.; Senator Frank Carlson of Kansas (in back, partially hidden); Assistant Attorney General, Ramsey Clark. West Wing Lawn, White House, Washington, D.C.