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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C21909
President of the Ivory Coast, Félix Houphouët-Boigny (at microphones), delivers remarks at arrival ceremonies in his honor. Also standing on platform: President John F. Kennedy; First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy; First Lady of the Ivory Coast, Marie-Thérèse Houphouët-Boigny; Ambassador of the Ivory Coast, Henri Konan Bédié; U.S. Secretary of State, Dean Rusk; U.S. Ambassador to the Ivory Coast, R. Borden Reams; Vice Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army, General Barksdale Hamlett; U.S. Chief of Protocol, Angier Biddle Duke; U.S. State Department interpreter, Edmund S. Glenn. Also pictured: Air Force Aide to President Kennedy, Brigadier General Godfrey T. McHugh; Military Aide to President Kennedy, General Chester V. Clifton; Naval Aide to President Kennedy, Captain Tazewell Shepard; Virginia Rusk (wife of Secretary Rusk); Henriette Bédié (wife of Ambassador Bédié); Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, G. Mennen "Soapy" Williams; District of Columbia Commissioner, John B. Duncan; U.S. Military Aide to President Houphouët-Boigny, Brigadier General Howard McCrum Snyder, Jr.; First Technical Counselor to President Houphouët-Boigny, Thadée Diffre; Special Assistant to the Minister of Finance, Economic Affairs, and Planning of the Ivory Coast, Mohamed Diawara; Press Secretary to President Houphouët-Boigny, Maurice Anoma Kanié; Chairman of the Citizens Committee of the District of Columbia, Edgar Morris; U.S. State Department Protocol assistant, Elsie Nurmi; U.S. State Department Protocol officers, Richard J. Gookin and Eddie N. Williams; U.S. State Department Interpreter, José de Seabra; White House Secret Service agent, Clint Hill. Military Air Transport Service (MATS) terminal, Washington National Airport, Washington D.C.