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White House Photographs
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President John F. Kennedy and Prime Minister of Great Britain, Harold Macmillan, look at a medal during a program at the White House to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Congressional Medal of Honor; visitors include descendants of Civil War Congressional Medal of Honor recipients. Left to right: Marshall B. Wenger (great-great-grandson of two of the first recipients of the Medal, Jacob Parrott and Wilson W. Brown); unidentified; Prime Minister Macmillan; White House Secret Service agent, Ernie Olsson (in back, partially hidden); President Kennedy; Chairman of the District of Columbia Civil War Centennial Commission, Paul J. Sedgwick; unidentified (in back). West Wing Lawn, White House, Washington, D.C.