Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR7517-A
President John F. Kennedy delivers remarks during the swearing-in ceremony of General Maxwell D. Taylor as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS). Standing in foreground (left to right): President Kennedy (at microphones); General Taylor; Attorney General, Robert F. Kennedy. Looking on from the steps of the West Wing Colonnade, beginning at the very back (left to right): Military Aide to the President, General Chester V. Clifton; Air Force Aide to the President, Brigadier General Godfrey T. McHugh (mostly hidden); Naval Aide to the President, Captain Tazewell T. Shepard, Jr.; General Omar Bradley; outgoing Chairman of the JCS, General Lyman L. Lemnitzer; Chief of Staff of the United States Army, General Earle G. Wheeler (very back); Secretary of the Navy, Fred Korth; Secretary of the Air Force, Eugene M. Zuckert; Deputy Secretary of Defense, Roswell Gilpatric; Mary Happer, sister-in-law of General Taylor; Katherine Lemnitzer. Rose Garden, White House, Washington, D.C.