JFK Meets Gromyko

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President John F. Kennedy Meets with Andrei Gromyko, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union (USSR), 6 October 1961. (Clockwise from top): President Kennedy; Andrei Gromyko; Vladimir Semenov, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union; Secretary of State Dean Rusk (back to camera); Mikhail Menshikov, Soviet Ambassador to the United States (back to camera). Photographer in background. Yellow Oval Room, White House, Washington, D.C.

[JFK Presidential Library and Museum, Accession Number: AR6830-C. United States Department of the Interior. National Park Service. Container Digital Identifier: JFKWHP-1961-10-06-E.]

JFK Meets Gromyko

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