Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR7149-A
President John F. Kennedy meets with the U.S. Advisory Commission on International Educational and Cultural Affairs in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Washington, D.C. (L-R) Congressman Harris B. McDowell, Jr. (Delaware); Assistant Secretary of State for Education and Cultural Affairs Philip H. Coombs; unidentified (in back); Mabel M. Smythe, Principal of New Lincoln High School, New York City; Reverend Theodore M. Hesburgh, President of the University of Notre Dame (in back, mostly hidden); unidentified; President Kennedy; Dr. Luther H. Foster, President of Tuskegee Institute; Dr. John W. Gardner, Chairman of the Commission and President of the Carnegie Corporation; Senator J. W. Fulbright of Arkansas (in back, mostly hidden); James R. Fleming, publisher of the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette; Senator Warren G. Magnuson of Washington (in back, facing away); Dr. Franklin D. Murphy, Chancellor of University of California, Los Angeles; Senator Karl E. Mundt (South Dakota); Congressman Wayne L. Hays (Ohio); Congressman Frank T. Bow of Ohio (in back, mostly hidden); and Congressman John J. Rooney of New York (facing away). Also present: Walter Adams, Professor of Economics at Michigan State University, and Walter Johnson, Chairman of the Department of History at the University of Chicago.