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JFKWHP-ST-C51-1-62
President John F. Kennedy (center left) and others observe as General Maxwell D. Taylor (with right hand raised and left hand on Bible) is sworn in as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS); Attorney General, Robert F. Kennedy (center right, holding Bible), administers the oath of office. Looking on from the steps of the West Wing Colonnade (left to right): outgoing Chairman of the JCS, General Lyman L. Lemnitzer; Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force, General Curtis E. LeMay; Lydia Taylor; Admiral Arthur W. Radford (very back, partially hidden); Secretary of the Navy, Fred Korth; Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps, Lt. General John C. Munn (in back); General Nathan F. Twining (in back, partially hidden); Secretary of the Air Force, Eugene M. Zuckert (face obscured); Deputy Secretary of Defense, Roswell Gilpatric; Mary Happer, sister-in-law of General Taylor; Katherine Lemnitzer. Rose Garden, White House, Washington, D.C. [Notes: Scratches in upper right portion of image are original to the negative.]
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JFKWHP-ST-A40-19-62
Attorney General, Robert F. Kennedy, poses with his children in front of the home of Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts. In foreground (L-R): David Kennedy, Kerry Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Michael Kennedy, Courtney Kennedy, and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. President John F. Kennedy stands in background with John F. Kennedy, Jr., and Ann Gargan. Nanny to the Kennedy children, Maud Shaw, walks at left in background; others are unidentified.
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JFKWHP-ST-M25-1-61
Composite of four separate family photographs of the Kennedy Family, set in front of the family house in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts. Front Row (L-R): Eunice Kennedy Shriver; David Kennedy; Ethel Skakel Kennedy; Kerry Kennedy (in Ethel Kennedy’s lap); Courtney Kennedy; Kathleen Kennedy (behind Courtney Kennedy); Michael L. Kennedy; Robert F. Kennedy Jr.; Timothy Shriver (grabbing his shoes); Robert Shriver (behind Timothy Shriver); Maria Shriver; John F. Kennedy Jr.; Caroline Kennedy (with toy gun); President John F. Kennedy; Victoria Lawford; Sydney Lawford (behind Victoria Lawford); Christopher Lawford; Patricia Kennedy Lawford; Peter Lawford. Back row (L-R): Kara Kennedy; Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy; Edward M. “Ted” Kennedy Jr.; Joan Bennett Kennedy; Robert F. Kennedy; Joseph P. Kennedy II; R. Sargent Shriver; First Lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy; Stephen Smith (behind President Kennedy); Stephen Smith Jr.; Jean Kennedy Smith; William Smith. [Note (excerpted from Cecil Stoughton’s “The Memories: JFK 1961-1963," p. 104): "The montage is made of four separate pictures – a master picture of most of the family members in front of the family house in Hyannisport, a picture of Teddy Kennedy and his two children taken at his Cape home, a picture of Stephen Smith and his family taken at yet another place in Hyannisport, and a final shot of Peter Lawford taken at Malibu Beach."]
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JFKWHP-ST-A26-25-62
President John F. Kennedy meets with members of the Executive Committee of the National Security Council (EXCOMM) regarding the crisis in Cuba. Clockwise from top right side of table: Under Secretary of State George Ball, Secretary of State Dean Rusk, President Kennedy, Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, Deputy Secretary of Defense Roswell Gilpatric, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Maxwell D. Taylor, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs Paul Nitze, Acting Director of the United States Information Agency (USIA) Donald Wilson, Special Counsel to the President Theodore C. Sorensen, Special Assistant to the President for National Security McGeorge Bundy, Secretary of the Treasury C. Douglas Dillon, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson (mostly hidden), Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, former U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union Llewellyn Thompson, Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA) William C. Foster, and Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) John McCone (mostly hidden behind Director Foster). Cabinet Room, White House, Washington, D.C.
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JFKWHP-ST-A26-18-62
President John F. Kennedy meets with members of the Executive Committee of the National Security Council (EXCOMM) regarding the crisis in Cuba. Seated at table (clockwise from bottom left): Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs Paul Nitze, Acting Director of the United States Information Agency (USIA) Donald Wilson (partially hidden), Special Counsel to the President Theodore C. Sorensen, Special Assistant to the President for National Security McGeorge Bundy, Secretary of the Treasury C. Douglas Dillon, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, former U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union Llewellyn Thompson, Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA) William C. Foster, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) John McCone (mostly hidden), Under Secretary of State George Ball (partially hidden), Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, Deputy Secretary of Defense Roswell Gilpatric, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Maxwell D. Taylor. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy stands at far left; President Kennedy (looking down, with hands on table) and Secretary of State Dean Rusk stand at far right; Executive Secretary of the National Security Council Bromley Smith (back left) sits against the wall, near the bookcase. Cabinet Room, White House, Washington, D.C.
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JFKWHP-ST-A26-16-62
President John F. Kennedy meets with members of the Executive Committee of the National Security Council (EXCOMM) regarding the crisis in Cuba. Seated at table (clockwise from bottom left): Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs Paul Nitze, Acting Director of the United States Information Agency (USIA) Donald Wilson (partially hidden), Special Counsel to the President Theodore C. Sorensen, Special Assistant to the President for National Security McGeorge Bundy, Secretary of the Treasury C. Douglas Dillon, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, former U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union Llewellyn Thompson, Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA) William C. Foster, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) John McCone, Under Secretary of State George Ball (mostly hidden), Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, Deputy Secretary of Defense Roswell Gilpatric, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Maxwell D. Taylor. Secretary of State Dean Rusk, President Kennedy (mostly hidden behind Secretary Rusk), and White House Press Secretary Pierre Salinger (on far edge of frame) stand at right; Executive Secretary of the National Security Council Bromley Smith (back left) sits against the wall, near the bookcase. Cabinet Room, White House, Washington, D.C.
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JFKWHP-ST-A26-1-62
President John F. Kennedy meets with members of the Executive Committee of the National Security Council (EXCOMM) regarding the crisis in Cuba. Clockwise from top right side of table: Under Secretary of State George Ball, Secretary of State Dean Rusk, President Kennedy, Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, Deputy Secretary of Defense Roswell Gilpatric, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Maxwell D. Taylor, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs Paul Nitze, Acting Director of the United States Information Agency (USIA) Donald Wilson, Special Counsel to the President Theodore C. Sorensen, Special Assistant to the President for National Security McGeorge Bundy (mostly hidden), Secretary of the Treasury C. Douglas Dillon, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson (mostly hidden), Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, former U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union Llewellyn Thompson, Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA) William C. Foster, and Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) John McCone (mostly hidden behind Director Foster). Cabinet Room, White House, Washington, D.C.
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President John F. Kennedy’s birthday party celebration at the National Guard Armory. President Kennedy’s birthday cake sits in the foreground. Seated at the head table, L-R: Speaker of the House of Representatives, Sam Rayburn (Texas); President Kennedy; Chairman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), John M. Bailey; two unidentified; Attorney General, Robert F. Kennedy; unidentified; Postmaster General, J. Edward Day; unidentified; Secretary of Labor, Arthur Goldberg. The fund-raising dinner was given by the DNC and the Democratic Senatorial and Congressional Campaign Committees.
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President John F. Kennedy signs Public Law 87-36, Circuit & District Judges Appointment Act. Looking on, L-R: Congressman Emanuel Celler (New York); Senator James O. Eastland (Mississippi); Senator Olin Johnston (South Carolina); Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (Minnesota); Speaker of the House of Representatives, Sam Rayburn (Texas); unidentified; Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy; unidentified; Deputy Attorney General, Byron White. Also included in the President’s schedule: Assistant Deputy Attorney General, Joseph F. Dolan; William Foley; Joseph Davis. Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
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President John F. Kennedy signs Public Law 87-36, Circuit & District Judges Appointment Act. Looking on, L-R: Congressman Emanuel Celler (New York); Senator James O. Eastland (Mississippi); Senator Olin Johnston (South Carolina); Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (Minnesota); Speaker of the House of Representatives, Sam Rayburn (Texas); unidentified; Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy; unidentified; Deputy Attorney General, Byron White. Also included in the President’s schedule: Assistant Deputy Attorney General, Joseph F. Dolan; William Foley; Joseph Davis. Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
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President John F. Kennedy hands pen to Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy after signing Public Law 87-36, Circuit & District Judges Appointment Act. Others, L-R: Congressman Emanuel Celler (New York); Senator James O. Eastland (Mississippi); Senator Olin Johnston (South Carolina); unidentified; Speaker of the House of Representatives, Sam Rayburn (Texas); Deputy Attorney General, Byron White (far right). Also included in the President’s schedule: Assistant Deputy Attorney General, Joseph F. Dolan; William Foley; Joseph Davis. Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
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Attorney General, Robert F. Kennedy, poses with his children in front of the home of Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts. Left to right: President John F. Kennedy (walking in background), Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., David Kennedy, Kerry Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Michael Kennedy, and Courtney Kennedy.
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Attorney General, Robert F. Kennedy, poses with his children in front of the home of Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts. In foreground (L-R): David Kennedy, Kerry Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Michael Kennedy, and Courtney Kennedy. President John F. Kennedy stands in background with John F. Kennedy, Jr., and Ann Gargan. Persons at far left are unidentified.
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JFKWHP-ST-159-2-61
Luncheon for General Douglas MacArthur. (Clockwise from top left): General Clyde D. Eddleman; Congressman Walter H. Judd (Minnesota); Senator Frank Lausche (Ohio); General MacArthur; President John F. Kennedy; Senator Styles Bridges (New Hampshire); Congressman Eugene Keogh (New York); Congressman George H. Mahon (Texas, mostly hidden); three unidentified men (backs to camera); Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy (partially hidden); Vice President Lyndon Johnson; Senator Leverett Saltonstall (Massachusetts, partially hidden); Senator John C. Stennis (Mississippi); unidentified man (mostly hidden). Family Dining Room, White House, Washington, D.C.
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JFKWHP-ST-159-1-61
Luncheon for General Douglas MacArthur. (Clockwise from top left): Congressman Walter H. Judd (Minnesota); Senator Frank Lausche (Ohio); General MacArthur; President John F. Kennedy; Senator Styles Bridges (New Hampshire); Congressman Eugene Keogh (New York); Congressman George H. Mahon (Texas); Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy (partially out of frame); Vice President Lyndon Johnson (back to camera); Senator Leverett Saltonstall (Massachusetts, back to camera); Senator John C. Stennis (Mississippi, back to camera). Family Dining Room, White House, Washington, D.C.
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JFKWHP-ST-116-9-61
President John F. Kennedy and others watch television coverage of the lift-off of astronaut Commander Alan B. Shepard, Jr. aboard "Freedom 7," on the first US manned sub-orbital flight. L-R: Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy; Special Assistant to the President for National Security McGeorge Bundy; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Special Assistant to the President Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.; Chief of Staff of the United States Navy Admiral Arleigh Burke; President Kennedy; First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy. Office of the President’s Secretary, White House, Washington, D.C.
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JFKWHP-ST-116-4-61
President John F. Kennedy and others watch television coverage of the lift-off of astronaut Commander Alan B. Shepard, Jr. aboard "Freedom 7," on the first US manned sub-orbital flight. L-R: Naval Aide to the President, Commander Tazewell Shepard; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy; Assistant Special Counsel to the President, Richard Goodwin; Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, Paul Nitze; Special Assistant to the President, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.; President Kennedy. Standing in the doorway, partially hidden, are: President Kennedy’s brother-in law, Stephen Smith; Director of the Bureau of the Budget, David E. Bell; Chief of Staff of the United States Navy, Admiral Arleigh Burke. Office of the President’s Secretary (Evelyn Lincoln), White House, Washington, D.C.
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JFKWHP-ST-116-3-61
President John F. Kennedy and others watch television coverage of the lift-off of astronaut Commander Alan B. Shepard, Jr. aboard "Freedom 7," on the first US manned sub-orbital flight. L-R: Naval Aide to the President, Commander Tazewell Shepard; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy; Assistant Special Counsel to the President, Richard Goodwin; Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, Paul Nitze; Special Assistant to the President, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.; Director of the Bureau of the Budget, David E. Bell (standing in doorway, facing away); President Kennedy. Office of the President’s Secretary (Evelyn Lincoln), White House, Washington, D.C.
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JFKWHP-ST-116-2-61
President John F. Kennedy and others watch television coverage of the lift-off of astronaut Commander Alan B. Shepard, Jr. aboard "Freedom 7," on the first US manned sub-orbital flight. L-R: Naval Aide to the President, Commander Tazewell Shepard; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy; Military Aide to the President, General Chester V. Clifton; Assistant Special Counsel to the President, Richard Goodwin; Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, Paul Nitze; Special Assistant to the President, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.; Director of the Bureau of the Budget, David E. Bell (standing in doorway); President Kennedy. Office of the President’s Secretary (Evelyn Lincoln), White House, Washington, D.C.
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JFKWHP-ST-116-1-61
President John F. Kennedy and others watch television coverage of the lift-off of astronaut Commander Alan B. Shepard, Jr. aboard "Freedom 7," on the first US manned sub-orbital flight. L-R: Unidentified woman; Naval Aide to the President, Commander Tazewell Shepard; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy; Military Aide to the President, General Chester V. Clifton; Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, Abraham Ribicoff (partially hidden); Assistant Special Counsel to the President, Richard Goodwin; Special Assistant to the President, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.; President Kennedy. Office of the President’s Secretary (Evelyn Lincoln), White House, Washington, D.C.
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JFKWHP-ST-251-10A-61
Dinner in honor of former President Harry S. Truman. President Truman (left) standing with pianist Eugene List (right). Seated, First Row (L-R): Congressman Richard W. Bolling (Missouri), former First Lady Bess Truman, President John F. Kennedy, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, and an unidentified woman. Second Row (L-R): Margaret Truman Daniel, an unidentified man and woman, Roberta Vinson, Lady Bird Johnson, and Director of the Bureau of the Budget David E. Bell. Also included in the photograph are Presidential Adviser Clark M. Clifford (to the right of Vice President Johnson’s head) and Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy (standing in the back). East Room, White House, Washington, D.C
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Cabinet meeting. At table (clockwise from bottom left): Frederick C. Belen, Assistant Postmaster General; Vice President Lyndon Johnson; Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara; Charles S. Murphy, Under Secretary of Agriculture (mostly hidden); Secretary of Labor Arthur J. Goldberg; Abraham Ribicoff, Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare; Secretary of Commerce Luther H. Hodges; Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy; Secretary of State Dean Rusk; President John F. Kennedy; Secretary of the Treasury C. Douglas Dillon; Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall. Seated at back right of room (L – R): Unidentified man; Najeeb Halaby, Administrator of the Federal Aviation Agency; Walter Heller, Chairman of Council of Economic Advisers. Cabinet Room, White House, Washington, D.C.
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White House reception for Judicial Branch. Front row (L – R): President John F. Kennedy; First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy; Chief Justice Earl Warren; Lady Bird Johnson; Vice President Lyndon Johnson; Nina Warren, wife of Chief Justice Warren; Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy; Ethel Kennedy. Second row (L – R): Supreme Court Associate Justice William O. Douglas; Mercedes Douglas, wife of Justice Douglas; Supreme Court Associate Justice Hugo Black; Elizabeth Black, wife of Justice Black (partially hidden behind Vice President Johnson). Other guests unidentified. Grand Staircase, Entrance Hall, White House, Washington, D.C.
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President John F. Kennedy signs the Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Offenses Control Act (S. 279) in the Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C. Looking on (L-R): Representative Carl Elliott of Alabama; Senator Herman E. Talmadge of Georgia (in back); Representative Charles S. Joelson of New Jersey; Senator Harrison A. Williams, Jr. of New Jersey (partially hidden behind Representative Joelson); Under Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, Ivan Nestingen; Representative Carroll Kearns of Pennsylvania; Representative John Brademas of Indiana (in back); Representative Edith Green of Oregon; Senator Jennings Randolph of West Virginia; Representative Robert Giaimo of Connecticut; Senator Lister Hill of Alabama; Representative John E. Fogarty of Rhode Island; Senator John A. Carroll of Colorado; Executive Director of the President’s Committee on Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Crime, David L. Hackett; Under Secretary of Labor W. Willard Wirtz (in back, mostly hidden); Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy (mostly hidden, head turned); Senator Jacob Javits of New York; Senator Thomas Dodd of Connecticut.
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President John F. Kennedy signs the Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Offenses Control Act (S. 279) in the Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C. Looking on (L-R): Representative Carl Elliott of Alabama; Senator Herman E. Talmadge of Georgia (in back); Representative Charles S. Joelson of New Jersey; Senator Harrison A. Williams, Jr. of New Jersey (partially hidden behind Representative Joelson); Under Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, Ivan Nestingen; Representative Carroll Kearns of Pennsylvania; Representative Edith Green of Oregon; Senator Jennings Randolph of West Virginia; Representative Robert Giaimo of Connecticut; Senator Lister Hill of Alabama; Representative John E. Fogarty of Rhode Island; Under Secretary of Labor W. Willard Wirtz; Senator John A. Carroll of Colorado; Executive Director of the President’s Committee on Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Crime, David L. Hackett; Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy; Senator Jacob Javits of New York; Senator Thomas Dodd of Connecticut.