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White House Photographs
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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); U.S. Ambassador to Panama, Joseph S. Farland; Ambassador of Panama, Augusto Guillermo Arango; and U.S. Chief of Protocol, Angier Biddle Duke. Aide-de-Camp to President Chiari, Lieutenant Federico Boyd (left), and Military Aide to President Kennedy, General Chester V. Clifton (right), flank the platform. Also pictured: Ambassador of Nicaragua and Dean of the Diplomatic Corps, Dr. Guillermo Sevilla-Sacasa; 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; Security Officer for the Department of State, James M. McDermott; and White House Secret Service agent, Charlie Kunkel. Members of the press gather at far right. Military Air Transport Service (MATS) terminal, Washington National Airport, Washington, D.C. [Photograph by Harold Sellers]