Famous Visitors

James Thomas Flexner

1965 and 1974

American writer; biographer of George Washington.

Crown Prince Hasan as-Senussi

1962

The Crown Prince of Libya.

Justice William O. Douglas

1962

Prince Souvanna Phouma

1962

Prime Minister of Laos.

President John F. Kennedy

Tuesday, July 11, 1961

The 35th President and First Lady of the United States hosted a state dinner at Mount Vernon for President Muhammad Ayub Khan of Pakistan.

The Honorable Allen W. Dulles

1961

Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.

Supreme Patriot of the Buddist Church in Thailand

1961

Senator Everett M. Dirksen

1961

President Lyndon Baines Johnson

1961

36th President of the United States.

Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy (Mrs. John Fitzgerald Kennedy)

1961 and 1962

First Lady of the United States (1961-1963). In addition to her much-heralded state dinner at Mount Vernon for Pakistani President Ayub Khan in 1961, she also came out to the estate the following year, just to have a peaceful place to ride her horse.