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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C22812
President John F. Kennedy, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, and others attend the arrival ceremony in honor of President of the Republic of Ecuador, Dr. Carlos Julio Arosemena Monroy. Standing on reviewing platform (L-R): President Arosemena Monroy; Carlos Julio Arosemena, Jr. (partially hidden); President Kennedy; unidentified; U.S. Under Secretary of State, George Ball; Ambassador of the Republic of Ecuador, Neftalí Ponce-Miranda; Commandant of the United States Marine Corps, General David M. Shoup; United States Ambassador to the Republic of Ecuador, Maurice M. Bernbaum; U.S. Chief of Protocol, Angier Biddle Duke. Also pictured: First Lady of the Republic of Ecuador, Gladys Peet de Arosemena; Mrs. Kennedy; Ambassador of Nicaragua and Dean of the Diplomatic Corps, Dr. Guillermo Sevilla-Sacasa; Lillian Somoza de Sevilla-Sacasa; Betty Bernbaum; Robin Chandler Duke; U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, Edwin M. Martin; Sandra Arosemena; Chairman of the Citizens Committee of the District of Columbia, Edgar Morris; U.S. State Department Protocol officers, Jay Rutherfurd and Richard J. Gookin; U.S. Assistant Chief of Protocol for Visits and Public Events, Samuel L. King; U.S. State Department interpreter, Fernando van Reigersberg; Naval Aide to President Kennedy, Captain Tazewell T. Shepard, Jr.; Military Aide to President Kennedy, General Chester V. Clifton. Members of the U.S. Army Herald Trumpets play in background; members of the press gather in foreground. Military Air Transport Service (MATS) terminal, Washington National Airport, Washington D.C.