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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-29204
President John F. Kennedy (center) sits with Chancellor of West Germany, Konrad Adenauer, during a ceremony at Kölner Rathaus (City Hall) in Cologne, West Germany (Federal Republic). Mayor (Oberbürgermeister) of Cologne, Theo Burauen (left, back to camera), delivers remarks. City Manager (Oberstadtdirektor) of Cologne, Dr. Max Adenauer, stands at center left; interpreter for the German Foreign Ministry, Heinz Weber, and Director of Radio in the American Sector (RIAS) in Berlin and translator for President Kennedy, Robert Lochner, stand behind the Chancellor and the President; Eunice Kennedy Shriver (right) stands in the background. Also pictured: U.S. Secretary of State, Dean Rusk; Minister of Foreign Affairs of Germany, Gerhard Schröder; White House Press Secretary, Pierre Salinger; Chief of Protocol of the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ehrenfried von Holleben; U.S. Chief of Protocol, Angier Biddle Duke; West German Ambassador to the United States, Karl Heinrich Knappstein; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs, William R. Tyler; Libeth Werhahn, daughter of Chancellor Adenauer; U.S. Ambassador to West Germany, George C. McGhee; Cecilia McGhee; White House Secret Service agent, Gerald A. “Jerry” Behn.