Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C18744
President John F. Kennedy shakes hands with the United States Ambassador to the United Nations (UN) Adlai Stevenson during the swearing-in ceremony for representatives and alternates of the United States Delegation to the General Assembly of the UN, Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C. (L-R) Francis T.P. Plimpton (partially out of frame); Clifton R. Wharton, Sr., United States Ambassador to Norway; Jonathan Brewster Bingham, US representative to the UN Trusteeship Council; Representative Marguerite Stitt Church of Illinois; Charles W. Yost, Deputy Representative to the UN Security Council; Representative Omar Burleson of Texas; Ambassador Stevenson; President Kennedy; Assistant Executive Clerk of the White House, Herbert L. Miller (officiating the ceremony); Secretary of State Dean Rusk (mostly hidden); Gladys A. Tillett.
