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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-23102
Presentation ceremony of the President’s Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service. President John F. Kennedy stands at microphones after presenting the award to Director of the Manned Spacecraft Center, Dr. Robert Gilruth (center, shaking hands with astronaut Commander Alan B. Shepard, Jr.). Left to right: award recipient and Medical Officer for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey; unidentified White House Police officer (in back); Secretary of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW), Anthony J. Celebrezze; unidentified; award recipient and Chief of the Department of Cardiorespiratory Diseases at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Dr. Donald E. Gregg; Secretary of the Army, Cyrus R. Vance; Director of Operations for Project Mercury, Dr. Walter C. Williams; Commander Shepard; Administrator of the Housing and Home Finance Agency (HHFA), Robert C. Weaver (in back, partially hidden); astronaut Colonel John H. Glenn, Jr.; Dr. Gilruth; award recipient and President of the Federal National Mortgage Association of the HHFA, J. Stanley Baughman (in back, mostly hidden); Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (Minnesota); Representative Kenneth A. Roberts of Alabama (in back, partially hidden); President Kennedy; Senator Estes Kefauver of Tennessee (in back); 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); Presidential Assistant, John J. McNally (very back, standing in West Wing Colonnade); 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 (face obscured); Member of the Distinguished Civilian Service Awards Board and Secretary of Labor, Arthur J. Goldberg. West Wing Lawn, White House, Washington, D.C.