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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR7260-B
President of the Ivory Coast, Félix Houphouët-Boigny (at microphones), delivers remarks at arrival ceremonies in his honor. Standing on platform (L-R): First Lady of the Ivory Coast, Marie-Thérèse Houphouët-Boigny; First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy; President Houphouët-Boigny; U.S. Secretary of State, Dean Rusk; President John F. Kennedy; U.S. State Department interpreter, Edmund S. Glenn; U.S. Chief of Protocol, Angier Biddle Duke. Air Force Aide to President Kennedy, Brigadier General Godfrey T. McHugh, stands below platform at far left. Also pictured: Henriette Bédié (wife of Ambassador of the Ivory Coast, Henri Konan Bédié); Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, G. Mennen "Soapy" Williams; U.S. State Department Protocol assistant, Elsie Nurmi; U.S. State Department Protocol officers, Richard J. Gookin and Eddie N. Williams. Military Air Transport Service (MATS) terminal, Washington National Airport, Washington D.C.