President and Mrs. Nixon with Poster Contest Winner
In this photograph, taken April 14, 1973 by Karl Schumacher, President Richard Nixon, First Lady Pat Nixon, and Washington, D.C. Mayor-Commissioner Walter Washington admire a poster designed by a winner of a student poster contest sponsored by the Society for a More Beautiful Capital. The Society for a More Beautiful Capital was founded in 1964 by Mary Lasker and First Lady Lady Bird Johnson to encourage local residents to take charge of the "beautification" of the city through gardening and cleanup initiatives.
- Photographer
- Karl Schumacher
- Date of Work
- April 14, 1973
- Type
- Photograph
- Credit
- Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum/NARA
