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White House Photographs
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Deputy Director of the Food for Peace Program, James Symington, plays a guitar at a reception in honor of the Committee of Nine of the Alliance for Progress (La Alianza para el Progreso) and diplomatic corps of the Latin American Republics, on the first anniversary of the Alliance for Progress. L-R: Unidentified; Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, Edwin M. Martin (in back, mostly hidden); President John F. Kennedy; member of the Committee of Nine, Harvey S. Perloff (United States); two unidentified men; Deputy Director Symington; member of the Committee of Nine, Paul N. Rosenstein-Rodan (United Kingdom), partially hidden; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; member of the Committee of Nine, Dr. Manuel Noriega Morales (Guatemala); unidentified. Other members of the Committee of Nine include Hernando Agudelo Villa (Colombia), Ernesto Malaccorto (Argentina), Dr. Felipe Pazos (Cuba), Raúl Sáez (Chile), Ary Frederico Torres (Brazil), Gonzalo Robles (Mexico). State Dining Room, White House, Washington, D.C.