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White House Photographs
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Assistant Secretary of Labor for Labor Standards and Executive Vice Chairman of the President’s Commission on the Status of Women, Esther Peterson (right), delivers remarks at the presentation of the final report of the Commission, titled “American Women,” to President John F. Kennedy. Also pictured: Secretary of Commerce, Luther H. Hodges; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson (face obscured); Vice Chairman of the Commission, Dr. Richard A. Lester; Chairman of the United States Civil Service Commission, John W. Macy, Jr.; Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW), Anthony J. Celebrezze; Senator George D. Aiken (Vermont); Senator Maurine Neuberger (Oregon). East Room, White House Washington, D.C.