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Presentation ceremony of the President’s Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service. President John F. Kennedy shakes hands with President of the Federal National Mortgage Association of the Housing and Home Finance Agency (HHFA), J. Stanley Baughman (center left), upon presenting him with the award. Looking on (L-R): award recipient and Director of the Manned Spacecraft Center, Dr. Robert Gilruth (in back, partially hidden); Administrator of the HHFA, Robert C. Weaver; White House Secret Service agent, Jack Ready (very back, standing in West Wing Colonnade); Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (Minnesota); Representative Kenneth A. Roberts (Alabama); Senator John A. Carroll (Colorado); Chairman of the Distinguished Civilian Service Awards Board and Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Dr. James E. Webb; Presidential Assistant, John J. McNally (very back); Special Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, Dr. Jerome B. Wiesner (in back, partially hidden); Executive Secretary of the Distinguished Civilian Service Awards Board and Chairman of the U.S. Civil Service Commission, John W. Macy, Jr.; Assistant Attorney General, Ramsey Clark (partially hidden on edge of frame). West Wing Lawn, White House, Washington, D.C.
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Presentation ceremony of the President’s Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service. Medical Officer for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey (center), stands on the West Wing Lawn with members of her family after receiving the award from President John F. Kennedy. Dr. Kelsey's husband and Special Assistant to the Surgeon General of the United States, Dr. F. Ellis Kelsey, stands in center left; their daughters, Susan Kelsey and Christine Kelsey, stand third and fifth from left (respectively); others are unidentified. Those standing in the West Wing Colonnade include: Presidential Assistant, John J. McNally; White House Secret Service agent, Jack Ready. White House, Washington, D.C.
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President John F. Kennedy (at microphones) delivers remarks at the presentation ceremony of the President’s Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service. Standing in background (L-R): award recipient and Medical Officer for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey; Secretary of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW), Anthony J. Celebrezze; award recipient and Chief of the Department of Cardiorespiratory Diseases at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Dr. Donald E. Gregg; award recipient and Director of the Manned Spacecraft Center, Dr. Robert Gilruth; Secretary of the Army, Cyrus R. Vance; Naval Aide to the President, Captain Tazewell T. Shepard, Jr.; New York Times photographer, George Tames; Administrator of the Housing and Home Finance Agency (HHFA), Robert C. Weaver; award recipient and President of the Federal National Mortgage Association of the HHFA, J. Stanley Baughman; Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (Minnesota); White House Secret Service agent, Jack Ready (very back, standing in West Wing Colonnade); Senator Estes Kefauver (Tennessee); Presidential Assistant, John J. McNally (very back, partially hidden); Senator John A. Carroll (Colorado); Chairman of the Distinguished Civilian Service Awards Board and Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Dr. James E. Webb; Senator Frank Carlson (Kansas); Executive Secretary of the Distinguished Civilian Service Awards Board and Chairman of the U.S. Civil Service Commission, John W. Macy, Jr.; Assistant Attorney General, Ramsey Clark. West Wing Lawn, White House, Washington, D.C.
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President John F. Kennedy (center) greets attendees of a reception for foreign students on the South Lawn of the White House, Washington, D.C. Guests include students from the following Washington, D.C.-area institutions: American University, the Catholic University of America, Gallaudet College, the George Washington University, Georgetown University, Howard University, the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, Trinity College (Washington, D.C.), University of Maryland, and Dunbarton College of Holy Cross. Also pictured: United Press International (UPI) photographer, James K. W. Atherton; National Park Service (NPS) Photographer, Abbie Rowe; Presidential Assistant, John J. McNally; Associate Press Secretary, Andrew T. Hatcher; Chief of White House Police, Major Ralph C. “Smokey” Stover; White House Secret Service agents, Emory Roberts, Ron Pontius, and Jack Ready. [Photograph by Harold Sellers]
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President John F. Kennedy (center left) walks with reporters and others across the South Lawn driveway, during a reception for foreign students who are studying in the Washington metropolitan area; photographers observe. Those pictured include: White House correspondent for United Press International (UPI), Helen Thomas; White House Secret Service agents, Jack Ready and Ernie Olsson. Attendees gather on the lawn in the background; Presidential Assistant, John J. "Jack" McNally (back to camera), stands at far right in the foreground. The South Lawn fountain and Washington Monument are visible in the distance. White House, Washington, D.C.
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White House Photographs
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President John F. Kennedy (center, head turned) greets attendees of a reception for foreign students on the South Lawn of the White House, Washington, D.C. Guests include students from the following Washington, D.C.-area institutions: American University, the Catholic University of America, Gallaudet College, the George Washington University, Georgetown University, Howard University, the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, Trinity College (Washington, D.C.), University of Maryland, and Dunbarton College of Holy Cross. Also pictured: United Press International (UPI) photographer, James K. W. Atherton; National Park Service (NPS) Photographer, Abbie Rowe; Presidential Assistant, John J. McNally; Associate Press Secretary, Andrew T. Hatcher; Chief of White House Police, Major Ralph C. “Smokey” Stover; Assistant Press Secretary, Jay W. Gildner; White House Secret Service agents, Mike Mastrovito, Emory Roberts, Ron Pontius, and Jack Ready. [Photograph by Harold Sellers]