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JFKWHP-KN-C20979
President John F. Kennedy, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, and others attend a congressional reception at the White House. Front row (L-R): unidentified flag bearer; Speaker of the House of Representatives John W. McCormack (facing President Kennedy); President Kennedy; Mrs. Kennedy; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Lady Bird Johnson; Senator Carl Hayden (Arizona); Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (Minnesota); Muriel Humphrey, wife of Senator Humphrey; Senator Everett M. Dirksen (Illinois); and Louella Dirksen, wife of Senator Dirksen. In back, standing on the stairs (L-R): Congressman Carl Albert (Oklahoma); Senator Mike Mansfield (Montana); Congressman Charles Halleck (Indiana); Congressman Hale Boggs (Louisiana); Maureen Hayes Mansfield, wife of Senator Mansfield; Blanche Halleck, wife of Congressman Halleck; Lindy Boggs, wife of Congressman Boggs; Senator George A. Smathers (Florida); and Rosemary Smathers, wife of Senator Smathers. Grand Staircase, Entrance Hall, White House, Washington, D.C.
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JFKWHP-KN-C20978
President John F. Kennedy, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, and others attend a congressional reception at the White House. Front row (L-R): Speaker of the House of Representatives John W. McCormack; Harriet McCormack, wife of Speaker McCormack; President Kennedy; Mrs. Kennedy; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Lady Bird Johnson; Senator Carl Hayden (Arizona); Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (Minnesota); Muriel Humphrey, wife of Senator Humphrey; Senator Everett M. Dirksen (Illinois); and Louella Dirksen, wife of Senator Dirksen. In back, standing on the stairs (L-R): Congressman Carl Albert (Oklahoma); Senator Mike Mansfield (Montana); Congressman Hale Boggs (Louisiana); Congressman Charles Halleck (Indiana); Maureen Hayes Mansfield, wife of Senator Mansfield; Blanche Halleck, wife of Congressman Halleck; Senator George A. Smathers (Florida); Lindy Boggs, wife of Congressman Boggs (mostly hidden); and Rosemary Smathers, wife of Senator Smathers. Grand Staircase, Entrance Hall, White House, Washington, D.C.
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JFKWHP-KN-21564
President John F. Kennedy, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, and others greet guests in the receiving line at a diplomatic reception at the White House. Left to right: Unidentified (on edge of frame); Chief of Protocol, Angier Biddle Duke; unidentified (back to camera); President Kennedy; Military Aide to the President, General Chester V. Clifton (in back); First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy; unidentified (back to camera); Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Naval Aide to the President, Captain Tazewell Shepard; Lady Bird Johnson. State Dining Room, White House, Washington, D.C.
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JFKWHP-KN-21563
President John F. Kennedy, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, and others greet guests in the receiving line at a diplomatic reception at the White House. Left to right: Ambassador of Portugal, Pedro Theotónio Pereira; two unidentified persons; Helena Drozniak, wife of the Polish Ambassador; Ambassador of the Polish People’s Republic (Poland), Edward Drozniak; unidentified; Chief of Protocol, Angier Biddle Duke; President Kennedy; unidentified; First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Mrs. Il-Kwon Chung, wife of the Ambassador of South Korea (in foreground); Air Force Aide to the President, Brigadier General Godfrey T. McHugh (in back); Lady Bird Johnson; Naval Aide to the President, Captain Tazewell Shepard; Ambassador of South Korea, General Il-Kwon Chung (in foreground). State Dining Room, White House, Washington, D.C.
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JFKWHP-KN-21562
President John F. Kennedy, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, and others greet guests in the receiving line at a diplomatic reception at the White House. Left to right: Ambassador of Indonesia, Zairin Zain; Chief of Protocol, Angier Biddle Duke; unidentified woman; President Kennedy; First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy; two unidentified men; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson (face obscured); Naval Aide to the President, Captain Tazewell Shepard; Lady Bird Johnson. State Dining Room, White House, Washington, D.C.
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JFKWHP-KN-21559
President John F. Kennedy, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, and others greet guests in the receiving line at a diplomatic reception at the White House. Left to right: President Kennedy; Mrs. Kennedy; Air Force Aide to the President, Brigadier General Godfrey T. McHugh (in back); Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Naval Aide to the President, Captain Tazewell Shepard; Lady Bird Johnson. State Dining Room, White House, Washington, D.C.
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JFKWHP-KN-21538
President John F. Kennedy, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, and others greet guests in the receiving line at a diplomatic reception at the White House. Left to right: Irina Nikolaevna, wife of Ambassador of the Soviet Union (USSR), Anatoliy Fedorovich Dobrynin; Ambassador Dobrynin; President Kennedy; Mrs. Kennedy; Catherine Brigitte Sohahong-Kombet, wife of Ambassador of the Central African Republic, Jean-Pierre Kombet (in foreground); Military Aide to the President, General Chester V. Clifton (in back, face obscured); Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Air Force Aide to the President, Brigadier General Godfrey T. McHugh (mostly hidden behind Vice President Johnson); Ambassador Kombet (in foreground); Naval Aide to the President, Captain Tazewell Shepard; Lady Bird Johnson. State Dining Room, White House, Washington, D.C.
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JFKWHP-KN-21537
President John F. Kennedy, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, and others greet guests in the receiving line at a diplomatic reception at the White House. Left to right: Unidentified woman (on edge of image); Ambassador of Haiti, Louis Mars (face partially hidden); two unidentified persons; Ambassador of Brazil, Roberto de Oliveira Campos; unidentified; Ambassador of Laos, Prince Tiao Khampan; Ambassador of Portugal, Pedro Theotónio Pereira; Chief of Protocol, Angier Biddle Duke (partially hidden behind Ambassador Pereira); President Kennedy; Mrs. Kennedy; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Air Force Aide to the President, Brigadier General Godfrey T. McHugh (in back); Lady Bird Johnson; Naval Aide to the President, Captain Tazewell Shepard. State Dining Room, White House, Washington, D.C.
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JFKWHP-KN-21535
President John F. Kennedy, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, and others greet guests in the receiving line at a diplomatic reception at the White House. At right: Chief of Protocol Angier Biddle Duke (shaking hands with an unidentified man), President Kennedy (mostly hidden), Mrs. Kennedy, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, Lady Bird Johnson (partially hidden). All others are unidentified. State Dining Room, White House, Washington, D.C.
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JFKWHP-KN-21534
President John F. Kennedy, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, and others greet guests in the receiving line at a diplomatic reception at the White House. Left to right: Three unidentified persons; Ambassador of Iran, Hossein Ghods-Nakhai (Qods-Nakhai), wearing glasses; Ambassador of the Soviet Union (USSR), Anatoliy Fedorovich Dobrynin (back to camera, shaking hands with Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson); President Kennedy; Mrs. Kennedy; Vice President Johnson; Air Force Aide to the President, Brigadier General Godfrey T. McHugh (in back); Lady Bird Johnson. State Dining Room, White House, Washington, D.C.
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President John F. Kennedy, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, and others attend a diplomatic reception at the White House. Front row (L-R): President Kennedy; Mrs. Kennedy; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Lady Bird Johnson; Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Earl Warren; Nina Warren, wife of Chief Justice Warren. Others (L-R): Ambassador of Nicaragua and Dean of the Diplomatic Corps, Dr. Guillermo Sevilla-Sacasa; Chief of Protocol, Angier Biddle Duke (behind Ambassador Sevilla-Sacasa); Military Aide to the President, General Chester V. Clifton (very back); Lillian Somoza de Sevilla-Sacasa, wife of the Nicaraguan Ambassador; Air Force Aide to the President, Brigadier General Godfrey T. McHugh (very back); Under Secretary of State, George Ball; unidentified woman (partially hidden); Presidential Adviser on African, Asian, and Latin-American Affairs, Chester B. Bowles; Naval Aide to the President, Captain Tazewell Shepard (in back); Dorothy Stebbins Bowles, wife of Mr. Bowles. Grand Staircase, Entrance Hall, White House, Washington, D.C.
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President John F. Kennedy, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, and others attend a diplomatic reception at the White House. In front (L-R): President Kennedy, Mrs. Kennedy, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, Lady Bird Johnson. At top of stairs (L-R): Chief of Protocol, Angier Biddle Duke; Military Aide to the President, General Chester V. Clifton; Air Force Aide to the President, Brigadier General Godfrey T. McHugh; Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Earl Warren; Nina Warren, wife of Chief Justice Warren; Ambassador of Nicaragua and Dean of the Diplomatic Corps, Dr. Guillermo Sevilla-Sacasa; Naval Aide to the President, Captain Tazewell Shepard. Grand Staircase, Entrance Hall, White House, Washington, D.C.
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JFKWHP-ST-141-5-62
President John F. Kennedy and others gather in the East Room to attend a reading by actor Fredric March of excerpts from the works of late American Nobel Prize winners during a dinner in honor of Nobel laureates from the Western Hemisphere; an unidentified man (left) stands at lectern. Seated in front row (L-R): Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Katherine Tupper Marshall (widow of Nobel Prize winner and former Secretary of State, General George C. Marshall); Lady Bird Johnson; Nobel Prize-winning author, Pearl S. Buck; President Kennedy; First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy; poet and Nobel Prize nominee, Robert Frost; Agnes Charlier Jarring (wife of Ambassador of Sweden, Gunnar Jarring); unidentified; writer, Mary Welsh Hemingway (widow of Nobel Prize-winning author, Ernest Hemingway); Grete Koht; and Ambassador of Norway, Paul Koht. Other Nobel Prize winners pictured include: physicist from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Emilio Segré; poet, Alexis Léger (Saint-John Perse); Chairman of the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology, Dr. Linus Pauling; former director of the Institute of Microbiology at Rutgers University, Dr. Selman A. Waksman; Gerhard Gade University Professor at Harvard University, Dr. Edward M. Purcell; biochemist from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Melvin Calvin; chemist from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Harold C. Urey; and Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, Lester B. Pearson. Also pictured: Dorothy Léger; Genevieve Jemtegaard Calvin; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, Richard N. Goodwin; and Broadway producer, Arthur Cantor. White House, Washington, D.C. [Scratches on image are original to the negative.]
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JFKWHP-ST-141-4-62
President John F. Kennedy and others gather in the East Room to attend a reading by actor Fredric March of excerpts from the works of late American Nobel Prize winners during a dinner in honor of Nobel laureates from the Western Hemisphere. President Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy visit with Nobel Prize-winning author, Pearl S. Buck. Seated in front row (L-R): Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson (mostly hidden); Katherine Tupper Marshall (widow of Nobel Prize winner and former Secretary of State, General George C. Marshall); Lady Bird Johnson; Ms. Buck; the President and First Lady; and Agnes Charlier Jarring (wife of Ambassador of Sweden, Gunnar Jarring). Other Nobel Prize winners pictured include: poet, Alexis Léger (Saint-John Perse); Gerhard Gade University Professor at Harvard University, Dr. Edward M. Purcell; former director of the Institute of Microbiology at Rutgers University, Dr. Selman A. Waksman; physicist from the Institute for Advanced Study, Dr. Chen Ning Yang; and biochemist from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Melvin Calvin. Also pictured: Steve Smith (brother-in-law of President Kennedy); Dorothy Léger; author, Van Wyck Brooks; literary critic, Diana Trilling; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, Richard N. Goodwin; and Sandra Leverant Goodwin. White House, Washington, D.C.
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JFKWHP-ST-141-26-62
President John F. Kennedy and others gather in the East Room to attend a reading by actor Fredric March of excerpts from the works of late American Nobel Prize winners during a dinner in honor of Nobel laureates from the Western Hemisphere. Standing in foreground (L-R): Mr. March; writer, Mary Welsh Hemingway (widow of Nobel Prize-winning author, Ernest Hemingway); Mrs. Kennedy; Katherine Tupper Marshall (widow of Nobel Prize winner and former Secretary of State, General George C. Marshall), mostly hidden; and President Kennedy. Seated in front row of audience at right are (L-R): Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Lady Bird Johnson; and Nobel Prize-winning author, Pearl S. Buck. East Room, White House, Washington, D.C.
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JFKWHP-ST-141-24-62
President John F. Kennedy and others gather in the East Room to attend a reading by actor Fredric March of excerpts from the works of late American Nobel Prize winners during a dinner in honor of Nobel laureates from the Western Hemisphere. Seated in front row (L-R): Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Katherine Tupper Marshall (widow of Nobel Prize winner and former Secretary of State, General George C. Marshall), mostly hidden; Lady Bird Johnson (mostly hidden); Nobel Prize-winning author, Pearl S. Buck; President Kennedy; First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy; poet and Nobel Prize nominee, Robert Frost; Agnes Charlier Jarring (wife of Ambassador of Sweden, Gunnar Jarring); unidentified; writer, Mary Welsh Hemingway (widow of Nobel Prize-winning author, Ernest Hemingway); Grete Koht; and Ambassador of Norway, Paul Koht. Other Nobel Prize winners pictured include: physicist from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Emilio Segré; Chairman of the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology, Dr. Linus Pauling; Chairman of the Department of Biochemistry at Cornell University Medical College, Dr. Vincent du Vigneaud; biochemist from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Melvin Calvin; and chemist from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Harold C. Urey. Also pictured: Genevieve Jemtegaard Calvin; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, Richard N. Goodwin; and Broadway producer, Arthur Cantor. White House, Washington, D.C.
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JFKWHP-ST-141-14-62
President John F. Kennedy and others gather in the East Room to attend a reading by actor Fredric March of excerpts from the works of late American Nobel Prize winners during a dinner in honor of Nobel laureates from the Western Hemisphere. President Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy visit with Nobel Prize-winning author, Pearl S. Buck. Seated in front row (L-R): Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson (mostly hidden); Katherine Tupper Marshall (widow of Nobel Prize winner and former Secretary of State, General George C. Marshall); Lady Bird Johnson; Ms. Buck; the President and First Lady; and Agnes Charlier Jarring (wife of Ambassador of Sweden, Gunnar Jarring). Other Nobel Prize winners pictured include: physicist from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Emilio Segré; poet, Alexis Léger (Saint-John Perse); former director of the Institute of Microbiology at Rutgers University, Dr. Selman A. Waksman; Gerhard Gade University Professor at Harvard University, Dr. Edward M. Purcell; and biochemist from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Melvin Calvin. Also pictured: Dorothy Léger; Steve Smith (brother-in-law of President Kennedy); President of Harvard University, Dr. Nathan M. Pusey; author, Van Wyck Brooks; literary critic, Diana Trilling; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, Richard N. Goodwin; and Sandra Leverant Goodwin. White House, Washington, D.C.
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Actor Fredric March (left) performs a reading of excerpts from the works of the late Nobel Prize winners, former Secretary of State, General George C. Marshall, and authors, Sinclair Lewis and Ernest Hemingway, during a dinner in honor of Nobel laureates from the Western Hemisphere. Seated in front row (L-R): Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson (partially hidden); Katherine Tupper Marshall (widow of General Marshall); Lady Bird Johnson; Nobel Prize-winning author, Pearl S. Buck; President John F. Kennedy; First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy; poet and Nobel Prize nominee, Robert Frost; and Agnes Charlier Jarring (wife of Ambassador of Sweden, Gunnar Jarring). Other Nobel Prize winners pictured include: physicist from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Emilio Segré; poet, Alexis Léger (Saint-John Perse); former director of the Institute of Microbiology at Rutgers University, Dr. Selman A. Waksman; Gerhard Gade University Professor at Harvard University, Dr. Edward M. Purcell; biochemist from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Melvin Calvin; and chemist from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Harold C. Urey. Also pictured: Dorothy Léger; President of Harvard University, Dr. Nathan M. Pusey; author, Van Wyck Brooks; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, Richard N. Goodwin; and Sandra Leverant Goodwin. East Room, White House, Washington, D.C.
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President John F. Kennedy and others gather in the East Room to attend a reading by actor Fredric March of excerpts from the works of late American Nobel Prize winners during a dinner in honor of Nobel laureates from the Western Hemisphere; an unidentified man (left) stands at lectern. Seated in front row (L-R): Katherine Tupper Marshall (widow of Nobel Prize winner and former Secretary of State, General George C. Marshall); Lady Bird Johnson; Nobel Prize-winning author, Pearl S. Buck; President Kennedy; First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy; poet and Nobel Prize nominee, Robert Frost; and Agnes Charlier Jarring (wife of Ambassador of Sweden, Gunnar Jarring). Other Nobel Prize winners pictured include: physicist from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Emilio Segré; poet, Alexis Léger (Saint-John Perse); Chairman of the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology, Dr. Linus Pauling; Gerhard Gade University Professor at Harvard University, Dr. Edward M. Purcell; and Chairman of the Department of Biochemistry at Cornell University Medical College, Dr. Vincent du Vigneaud. Also pictured: Dorothy Léger; President of Harvard University, Dr. Nathan M. Pusey; Genevieve Jemtegaard Calvin; literary critic, Diana Trilling; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, Richard N. Goodwin; and Sandra Leverant Goodwin. White House, Washington, D.C.
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President John F. Kennedy and others gather in the East Room to attend a reading by actor Fredric March of excerpts from the works of late American Nobel Prize winners during a dinner in honor of Nobel laureates from the Western Hemisphere. Seated in front row (L-R): Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Katherine Tupper Marshall (widow of Nobel Prize winner and former Secretary of State, General George C. Marshall); Lady Bird Johnson; Nobel Prize-winning author, Pearl S. Buck; President Kennedy; First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy; poet and Nobel Prize nominee, Robert Frost; and Agnes Charlier Jarring (wife of Ambassador of Sweden, Gunnar Jarring). Other Nobel Prize winners pictured include: physicist from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Emilio Segré; poet, Alexis Léger (Saint-John Perse); former director of the Institute of Microbiology at Rutgers University, Dr. Selman A. Waksman; Chairman of the Department of Biochemistry at Cornell University Medical College, Dr. Vincent du Vigneaud; biochemist from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Melvin Calvin; and chemist from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Harold C. Urey. Also pictured: Dorothy Léger; President of Atlanta University, Dr. Rufus E. Clement; President of Harvard University, Dr. Nathan M. Pusey; author, Van Wyck Brooks; Genevieve Jemtegaard Calvin; author, John Dos Passos; literary critic, Diana Trilling; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, Richard N. Goodwin; Sandra Leverant Goodwin; and composer, Alexei Haieff. White House, Washington, D.C.
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President John F. Kennedy and others gather in the East Room to attend a reading by actor Fredric March of excerpts from the works of late American Nobel Prize winners during a dinner in honor of Nobel laureates from the Western Hemisphere. President Kennedy (center left) visits with Nobel Prize-winning author, Pearl S. Buck; First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy (center right) visits with poet and Nobel Prize nominee, Robert Frost. Lady Bird Johnson (left) and Agnes Charlier Jarring (wife of Ambassador of Sweden, Gunnar Jarring) sit in front row. Other Nobel Prize winners pictured include: former director of the Institute of Microbiology at Rutgers University, Dr. Selman A. Waksman; Chairman of the Department of Biochemistry at Cornell University Medical College, Dr. Vincent du Vigneaud; Director of the Department of Pediatrics and Contagious Diseases at Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital, Dr. Frederick C. Robbins; biochemist from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Melvin Calvin; chemist from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Harold C. Urey; and Director of the Research Division of Infectious Diseases at the Children's Hospital Medical Center in Boston, Dr. John F. Enders. Also pictured: Dorothy Léger; President of Atlanta University, Dr. Rufus E. Clement; President of Harvard University, Dr. Nathan M. Pusey; author, Van Wyck Brooks; literary critic, Lionel Trilling; Genevieve Jemtegaard Calvin; author, John Dos Passos; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, Richard N. Goodwin; Sandra Leverant Goodwin; and composer, Alexei Haieff. White House, Washington, D.C.
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JFKWHP-KN-21218
President John F. Kennedy and others gather in the East Room to attend a reading by actor Fredric March of excerpts from the works of late American Nobel Prize winners during a dinner in honor of Nobel laureates from the Western Hemisphere. Seated in front row (L-R): Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Katherine Tupper Marshall (widow of Nobel Prize winner and former Secretary of State, General George C. Marshall); Lady Bird Johnson; Nobel Prize-winning author, Pearl S. Buck; President Kennedy; First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy; poet and Nobel Prize nominee, Robert Frost; and Agnes Charlier Jarring (wife of Ambassador of Sweden, Gunnar Jarring). Other Nobel Prize winners pictured include: physicist from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Emilio Segré; poet, Alexis Léger (Saint-John Perse); Gerhard Gade University Professor at Harvard University, Dr. Edward M. Purcell; biochemist from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Melvin Calvin; Director of the Department of Pediatrics and Contagious Diseases at Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital, Dr. Frederick C. Robbins; and chemist from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Harold C. Urey. Also pictured: Dorothy Léger; President of Atlanta University, Dr. Rufus E. Clement; Genevieve Jemtegaard Calvin; literary critic, Lionel Trilling; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, Richard N. Goodwin; Sandra Leverant Goodwin; and composer, Alexei Haieff. White House, Washington, D.C.
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President John F. Kennedy and others gather in the East Room to attend a reading by actor Fredric March of excerpts from the works of late American Nobel Prize winners during a dinner in honor of Nobel laureates from the Western Hemisphere. Seated in front row (L-R): Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Katherine Tupper Marshall (widow of Nobel Prize winner and former Secretary of State, General George C. Marshall); Lady Bird Johnson; Nobel Prize-winning author, Pearl S. Buck; President Kennedy; First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy; Agnes Charlier Jarring (wife of Ambassador of Sweden, Gunnar Jarring); unidentified; writer, Mary Welsh Hemingway (widow of Nobel Prize-winning author, Ernest Hemingway); and Grete Koht (wife of Ambassador of Norway, Paul Koht). Other Nobel Prize winners pictured include: poet, Alexis Léger (Saint-John Perse); former director of the Institute of Microbiology at Rutgers University, Dr. Selman A. Waksman; Dr. Walter H. Brattain, of the Bell Laboratories at the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T); Chairman of the Department of Biochemistry at Cornell University Medical College, Dr. Vincent du Vigneaud; and biochemist from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Melvin Calvin. Also pictured: President of Atlanta University, Dr. Rufus E. Clement; Steve Smith (brother-in-law of President Kennedy); Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, Richard N. Goodwin; and composer, Alexei Haieff. White House, Washington, D.C.
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President John F. Kennedy and others gather in the East Room to attend a reading by actor Fredric March of excerpts from the works of late American Nobel Prize winners during a dinner in honor of Nobel laureates from the Western Hemisphere. President Kennedy (center left) visits with Nobel Prize-winning author, Pearl S. Buck; First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy (center right) visits with poet and Nobel Prize nominee, Robert Frost. Lady Bird Johnson (left) and Agnes Charlier Jarring (wife of Ambassador of Sweden, Gunnar Jarring) sit in front row. Other Nobel Prize winners pictured include: Chairman of the Department of Biochemistry at Cornell University Medical College, Dr. Vincent du Vigneaud; biochemist from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Melvin Calvin; and Director of the Research Division of Infectious Diseases at the Children's Hospital Medical Center in Boston, Dr. John F. Enders. Also pictured: Steve Smith (brother-in-law of President Kennedy); President of Harvard University, Dr. Nathan M. Pusey; author, Van Wyck Brooks; Genevieve Jemtegaard Calvin; literary critics, Lionel Trilling and Diana Trilling; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, Richard N. Goodwin; Sandra Leverant Goodwin; and composer, Alexei Haieff. White House, Washington, D.C.
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President John F. Kennedy and others gather in the East Room to attend a reading by actor Fredric March of excerpts from the works of late American Nobel Prize winners during a dinner in honor of Nobel laureates from the Western Hemisphere. President Kennedy (center left) visits with Nobel Prize-winning author, Pearl S. Buck; First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy (center right) visits with poet and Nobel Prize nominee, Robert Frost. Lady Bird Johnson (left) and Agnes Charlier Jarring (wife of Ambassador of Sweden, Gunnar Jarring) sit in front row. Other Nobel Prize winners pictured include: Chairman of the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology, Dr. Linus Pauling; Chairman of the Department of Biochemistry at Cornell University Medical College, Dr. Vincent du Vigneaud; biochemist from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Melvin Calvin; physicist from Stanford University, Dr. Robert Hofstadter; physicist from the University of Illinois, Dr. John Bardeen; and chemist from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. William F. Giauque. Also pictured: Dorothy Léger; President of Atlanta University, Dr. Rufus E. Clement; President of Harvard University, Dr. Nathan M. Pusey; author, Van Wyck Brooks; Genevieve Jemtegaard Calvin; literary critics, Lionel Trilling and Diana Trilling; author, John Dos Passos; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, Richard N. Goodwin; Sandra Leverant Goodwin; and composer, Alexei Haieff. White House, Washington, D.C.