Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR7970-E
President John F. Kennedy presents the President's Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service to Associate Administrator of the Economic Research Service of the Department of Agriculture, Dr. Sherman E. Johnson (center, behind microphones), at a ceremony in the Rose Garden of the White House, Washington, D.C. Secretary of Agriculture, Orville Freeman, observes at right. Standing in the background (left to right): Secretary of Defense, Robert S. McNamara; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson (in back); Secretary of State, Dean Rusk (face obscured); award recipient and Deputy Commandant for Foreign Affairs of the National War College, Ambassador Winthrop G. Brown (applauding); Administrator of the Federal Aviation Agency (FAA), Najeeb Halaby (mostly hidden); Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, Dr. Leonard Carmichael (in back); Military Aide to the President, General Chester V. Clifton.