John F. Kennedy
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The Signing of the Limited Test Ban Treaty, Moscow, 1963 |
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A photo of Nikita Khrushchev taken by Dr. Seaborg with his Minox camera |
In August, 1963, I flew on Air Force One to Moscow for the signing of the Limited Test Ban Treaty. Here we have Secretary of State Dean Rusk signing for the United States; Foreign Minister Andre Gromyko, signing for the Soviet Union; and Lord Hume signing for the United Kingdom. Here's Adlai Stevenson, there's Khruschev, and where am I? Here I am. We did the signing in the Kremlin and then went to a neighboring room for a reception after the signing, the Georgian Room; the signing was in St. Catherine's Hall. During that reception, Khruschev pulled a paper out of his pocket with notes on it and gave a talk. I took my life in my hands and took a picture of Khruschev with my Minox camera. I don't know how many of you remember the Minox camera. It's about 2-1/2 inches high. I took it out and snapped a picture and then put this thing back in my pocket, hoping that I wouldn't be caught. I don't know what would have happened if that had happened.
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The Seaborg family in Washington D.C., 1964 |
Here's a picture of my family taken about that time, 1964. Here's my wife Helen, and Eric, Steve, Dave, Pete, Dianne, and Lynne. By this time they were happy in Washington. They liked it. In fact, two of them stayed there. They didn't come back to California.