Portrait of JFK

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

President John F. Kennedy was born on this date, May 29, in 1917. He would have been 96 years old today.

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(Photo credit: U.S. National Archives/Wikimedia Commons)

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Photo credit: Getty Images

Photos from his historic 1960 campaign: http://ti.me/MpoCcV

(Paul Schutzer—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)

This 1960 portrait is the work of Boris Chaliapin (1904-1979) from the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, a gift of TIME magazine. The work is a graphite on illustration board.

More about the image: http://bit.ly/10zCcVk
More artwork from the exhibition: http://bit.ly/ZdXDtS