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White House Photographs
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President John F. Kennedy listens as Senator Ernest Gruening of Alaska (left, in front of microphones) addresses a group of Eskimo and Alaskan Indian electronics trainees in the Rose Garden of the White House, Washington, D.C. Also pictured: trainees Herman Kitka, Jr., Sam Kito, Jr., Russell W. Attwood, Arthur H. Peterson, Morgan Aukongak, Harry Kito, and Percy Ipalook, Jr.; Secretary of the Interior, Stewart L. Udall; Senator E. L. “Bob” Bartlett (Alaska); Commissioner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in the Department of the Interior, Philleo Nash; President of the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) Institutes, George F. Maedel; Director of Training at RCA, Harold Fezer; White House correspondent for United Press International (UPI), Helen Thomas; intern in the White House Press Office, Mimi Beardsley; White House Secret Service agent, Jack Warner. Standing in the back of the audience are Mary Alice Fultz, Mary Louise Fultz, Mary Anne Fultz, and Mary Catherine Fultz, a set of quadruplets who visited the White House to meet President Kennedy. Rose Garden, White House, Washington, D.C. [Please see the President’s schedule for a complete list of attendees.]