Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR7970-F
President John F. Kennedy presents the President's Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service to Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Systems Analysis, Dr. Alain C. Enthoven (center, behind microphones), at a ceremony in the Rose Garden of the White House, Washington, D.C. Secretary of Defense, Robert S. McNamara, observes at right. Standing in the background (left to right): member of the Distinguished Civilian Awards Board and Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW), Anthony J. Celebrezze; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Secretary of Agriculture, Orville Freeman (in back, partially hidden); award recipient and Director of Air Traffic Service for the Federal Aviation Agency (FAA), David D. Thomas (partially hidden); Secretary of State, Dean Rusk (face obscured); Administrator of the FAA, Najeeb Halaby; Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, Dr. Leonard Carmichael; Military Aide to the President, General Chester V. Clifton (facing away); award recipient and Director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Dr. Fred L. Whipple (near column, partially hidden).