Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-A26-11-62
President John F. Kennedy (back to camera) speaks with members of the Executive Committee of the National Security Council (EXCOMM) in the West Wing Colonnade outside the Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C. (L-R) Special Assistant to the President for National Security McGeorge Bundy, President Kennedy, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs Paul Nitze (partially hidden, left of column), Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Maxwell D. Taylor (mostly hidden, right of column), and Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara. The President met with members of the EXCOMM that day regarding the crisis in Cuba.