Photograph
White House Photographs
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President of Venezuela, Rómulo Betancourt (right, at microphones), delivers remarks during an arrival ceremony in his honor. U.S. Department of State interpreter, Donald Barnes (writing), stands immediately left of President Betancourt; First Lady of Venezuela, Carmen Valverde de Betancourt (holding bouquet of roses), stands in front of doorway at left; President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy (both at center left) look on. Standing in doorway, behind Mrs. Betancourt: Military Aide to President Kennedy, General Chester V. Clifton (partially hidden); Air Force Aide to President Kennedy, Brigadier General Godfrey T. McHugh; Naval Aide to President Kennedy, Captain Tazewell T. Shepard, Jr. (face obscured). Also pictured (standing in receiving line in the background): Robin Chandler Duke (wife of U.S. Chief of Protocol, Angier Biddle Duke); Minister of Foreign Affairs of Venezuela, Dr. Marcos Falcón Briceño; Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force, General Curtis E. LeMay; Ambassador of Venezuela, Dr. Enrique Tejera París. North Portico, White House, Washington, D.C.