Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C21125
President John F. Kennedy (left, wearing sunglasses) shakes hands with an unidentified United States Navy rear admiral on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise, at sea off the coast of North Carolina. Admiral Robert L. Dennison, Commander in Chief of the Atlantic Command (CINCLANT), Commander in Chief of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet, and Supreme Allied Commander, Atlantic (SACLANT), stands right of President Kennedy; Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara (center) stands in the background; others are unidentified. President Kennedy sailed aboard the carrier to view U.S. Atlantic Fleet exercises.