Photograph
White House Photographs
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President John F. Kennedy presents the National Medal of Science to Dr. Theodore von Kármán in the Rose Garden of the White House, Washington, D.C. Left to right: Chairman of the President’s Committee on the National Medal of Science, Frederick Seitz; Air Force Aide to the President, Brigadier General Godfrey T. McHugh (mostly hidden behind Mr. Seitz); General Bernard Schriever; President Kennedy; General Curtis E. LeMay; Dr. von Kármán; President of the California Institute of Technology, Dr. Lee A. DuBridge; unidentified; Special Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, Dr. Jerome B. Wiesner.