Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR7126-C
President John F. Kennedy presents an “E-for-Export” certificate of excellence (as part of the Export Expansion Program) for McGraw-Hill Book Company to the chairman of the board of McGraw-Hill, Curtis G. Benjamin. Left to right: Senator Claiborne Pell (Rhode Island); Congressman Emanuel Celler (New York); Congressman William F. Ryan (New York); Congressman Wright Patman of Texas (in back); Mr. Benjamin; Secretary of Commerce, Luther H. Hodges; Assistant Secretary of Commerce for International Affairs, Jack Behrman (behind Secretary Hodges); Congressman Leonard Farbstein of New York (in back); President Kennedy; Senator Clair Engle of California (face obscured); White House Secret Service agent, Charlie Kunkel; Senator John O. Pastore (Rhode Island); two unidentified men. Fish Room, White House, Washington, D.C.