Chief Floral Designer at Work in the Green Room

In this photograph, White House Chief Floral Designer Elmer M. "Rusty" Young works on a floral arrangement in the Green Room. The spring arrangement, full of tulips, lilies, and carnations, was put on display in front of Claude Monet's landscape "Morning on the Seine, Good Weather," a gift of the Kennedy family to White House in memory of President John F. Kennedy. This photograph was taken by James P. Blair in May 1966 during the Lyndon B. Johnson administration.