Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR7173-A
Historian Allan Nevins greets President John F. Kennedy before presenting President Kennedy with a Civil War Centennial Commission (CWCC) medallion. Other members of the CWCC look on from back row (L-R): Roy K. Davenport, Under Secretary of Defense for Army Personnel; Edmund C. Gass, Assistant Executive Director of the CWCC; Representative Fred Schwengel of Iowa; Senator Ralph Yarborough of Texas; Harry B. Elkins; David C. Mearns, Chief of the Manuscript Division at the Library of Congress (partially hidden); Representative George A. Goodling of Pennsylvania (mostly hidden); James I. Robertson, Jr., Executive Director of the CWCC. Fish Room (Conference Room), White House, Washington, D.C.