Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C21910
President John F. Kennedy (at microphones) delivers remarks at arrival ceremonies in honor of President of the Ivory Coast, Félix Houphouët-Boigny. Also standing on platform: President Houphouët-Boigny; First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy; First Lady of the Ivory Coast, Marie-Thérèse Houphouët-Boigny; U.S. Secretary of State, Dean Rusk; U.S. Ambassador to the Ivory Coast, R. Borden Reams; U.S. Chief of Protocol, Angier Biddle Duke; U.S. State Department interpreter, Edmund S. Glenn. Also pictured: Air Force Aide to President Kennedy, Brigadier General Godfrey T. McHugh; Military Aide to President Kennedy, General Chester V. Clifton; Naval Aide to President Kennedy, Captain Tazewell Shepard; Ambassador of Nicaragua and Dean of the Diplomatic Corps, Dr. Guillermo Sevilla-Sacasa; Lillian Somoza de Sevilla-Sacasa; Virginia Rusk (wife of Secretary Rusk); Minister of Finance, Economic Affairs, and Planning of the Ivory Coast, Raphaël Saller; Minister of Agriculture of the Ivory Coast, Charles Donwahi; District of Columbia Commissioner, John B. Duncan; U.S. Military Aide to President Houphouët-Boigny, Brigadier General Howard McCrum Snyder, Jr.; First Technical Counselor to President Houphouët-Boigny, Thadée Diffre; Special Assistant to the Minister of Finance, Economic Affairs, and Planning of the Ivory Coast, Mohamed Diawara; Chairman of the Citizens Committee of the District of Columbia, Edgar Morris; U.S. State Department Protocol officers, Eddie N. Williams and Richard J. Gookin; U.S. State Department Protocol assistant, Elsie Nurmi; U.S. State Department Interpreter, José de Seabra; White House Secret Service agent, Clint Hill. Military Air Transport Service (MATS) terminal, Washington National Airport, Washington D.C.