Box 3
Contains 127 Results:
Elk's Club-Captain Harry Cox retirement party, 1963 June 24
Ten photographs of L. Mendel Rivers attending the retirement party for Captain Harry Cox at the Charleston, South Carolina Elk's Club. Also pictured are Captain and Mrs. Harry C. Cox, Margaret Middleton Rivers (wife), Rear Admiral I. J. Galantin, E. D. Biggerstaff, Jr., Captain P. W. Garnett, and Captain O. C. Robbins.
Carl Vinson's birthday, 1963 November 18
A photograph taken on Carl Vinson's (chairman of the House Committee on Armed Services) birthday. Included in the photograph are L. Mendel Rivers, Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, Carl Vinson, and Senator J. Strom Thurmond.
"Bird luncheon", 1964 March 16
Thirteen photographs of from L. Mendel Rivers' Annual "bird luncheon." Those pictured are Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara and Carl Vinson.
Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 March 20
A photograph of President Lyndon B. Johnson signing a defense authorization bill with Carl Vinson and L. Mendel Rivers in the background.
Testimonial dinner for L. Mendel Rivers, 1964 March 20
Seven photographs of L. Mendel Rivers attending a testimonial dinner in his honor at the Citadel Military College of South Carolina. Also pictured are Citadel alumni and World War II fighter Ace Roland F. Wooten, Jr., former World Heavyweight Boxing Champion Jack Dempsey, Palmer Gaillard, Lucy Gaillard, General Curtis LeMay, and Margaret Middleton Rivers (wife).
Congressional award to Honor Jack Dempsey, 1964 March 25
Thirty-eight photographs from a Congressional Award Ceremony honoring former World Heavyweight Boxing Champion Jack Dempsey. Those pictured include L. Mendel Rivers, Jack Dempsey, Carl Vinson, Representative Frank Boykin, Richard Mahon, Richard Wooten, William Jennings Bryan Dorn, Speak of the House John McCormick, General Mark Clark, Ed Sullivan, Harold Simmons, Admiral Red Raborn, Blanche Rivers Odom (L. Mendel Rivers' sister), and L. Mendel Rivers, Jr. (L. Mendel Rivers' son).
Jack Dempsey-signed photograph, 1964 April 6
A signed photograph of former World Heavyweight Boxing Champion Jack Dempsey with L. Mendel Rivers. Also pictured are Harold Simmons and Frank Jameson.
West Point visit, 1964 April 15
A photograph of L. Mendel Rivers' visit to the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York, along with other members of the House Armed Services Committee.
Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 April 21
A photograph of L. Mendel Rivers meeting with President Lyndon B. Johnson.
House Armed Services Committee-European trip, 1964 April
Ten photographs of L. Mendel Rivers touring the U.S.S. Proteus during a House Armed Services Committee trip to Europe.