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White House Photographs
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After addressing the 13th annual convention of the National Association for Retarded Children (NARC), President John F. Kennedy (at lectern, holding a bronze plaque) presents the association's Award of Merit to Director of the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness, Dr. Richard L. Masland (center left, also holding the plaque). Standing right of President Kennedy (applauding): President of NARC, John G. Fettinger; Eunice Kennedy Shriver, consultant to the President's Panel on Mental Retardation. Mayflower Hotel, Washington, D.C.
