President and Mrs. Nixon Lead Children on Rose Garden Tour

In this photograph, taken April 14, 1973 by Karl Schumacher, President Richard Nixon and First Lady Pat Nixon lead a group including children and Washington, D.C. Mayor-Commissioner Walter Washington on a private tour of the White House Rose Garden. The children were winners of a student poster contest sponsored by the Society for a More Beautiful National Capital, an organization founded by Mary Lasker and First Lady Lady Bird Johnson in 1964.