Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6906-D
President John F. Kennedy is presented the Laetare Medal for 1961 from the University of Notre Dame. Attending the presentation (L-R): Vice President of the University of Notre Dame, Father Edmund P. Joyce; President Kennedy; President of the University of Notre Dame, Reverend Theodore M. Hesburgh; unidentified; Director of Public Information for the University of Notre Dame, James E. Murphy; two unidentified men (one in background); Representative John Brademas (Indiana). Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.