Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-22833
President of the Republic of Ecuador, Dr. Carlos Julio Arosemena Monroy, delivers remarks at the arrival ceremony in his honor. Standing on reviewing platform (L-R): President John F. Kennedy; unidentified (in back, partially hidden); Ambassador of the Republic of Ecuador, Neftalí Ponce-Miranda; President Arosemena Monroy (at microphones); U.S. Under Secretary of State, George Ball; Commandant of the United States Marine Corps, General David M. Shoup; United States Ambassador to the Republic of Ecuador, Maurice M. Bernbaum; U.S. Chief of Protocol, Angier Biddle Duke. Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy and First Lady of the Republic of Ecuador, Gladys Peet de Arosemena, stand at left in background; U.S. State Department Protocol officers, Jay Rutherfurd and Richard J. Gookin, stand at right in background. Military Air Transport Service (MATS) terminal, Washington National Airport, Washington D.C.
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