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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR8206-F
President John F. Kennedy (seated at table) hands a pen to Representative Wilbur D. Mills (Arkansas) after signing the Maternal and Child Health and Mental Retardation Planning Amendments of 1963, an amendment to the Social Security Act. Standing (left to right): Under Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW), Ivan A. Nestingen; Representative John W. Byrnes (Wisconsin); Senator Vance Hartke (Indiana); Representative Mills (receiving a pen from President Kennedy); unidentified (in back); Senator Abraham Ribicoff (Connecticut); Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Representative Albert Thomas of Texas (in back, partially hidden); Senator Clinton P. Anderson (New Mexico); unidentified (in back); Senator Lister Hill (Alabama); unidentified (in back); Senator Frank Carlson (Kansas); unidentified (in back); Representative Howard H. Baker (Tennessee); unidentified (in back). Cabinet Room, White House, Washington, D.C.