Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-415-2-62
Newly-appointed Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), General Maxwell D. Taylor (center right), shakes hands with outgoing Chairman of the JCS, General Lyman L. Lemnitzer, following his swearing-in ceremony in the Rose Garden of the White House, Washington, D.C. Looking on (left to right): General Omar Bradley; President John F. Kennedy; Lydia Taylor; Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral George W. Anderson, Jr. (in back, partially hidden); Secretary of the Navy, Fred Korth; Deputy Secretary of Defense, Roswell Gilpatric; Pearle Davenport Taylor; Mary Happer, sister-in-law of General Taylor; Attorney General, Robert F. Kennedy; unidentified person (standing in doorway at far right). [Notes: Blemishes on image are original to the negative.]