Collection Eleanor Roosevelt's "My Day"
The White House Historical Association and the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project present this collaboration in an effort to open a...
Presidential Inaugurations: Traditions & Transitions - Photo 2
- Photographer
- Edward Clark
- Date of Work
- January 21, 1968
- Credit
- White House Historical Association
Presidential Inaugurations: Traditions & Transitions - Photo 2
In this photograph, taken on January 20, 1961 by Edward Clark, President Dwight D. Eisenhower and First Lady Mamie Eisenhower shake hands and say farewell to members of the White House staff ahead of the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy.
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