Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR8215-H
President John F. Kennedy signs the Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Mental Health Center Construction Act. Looking on (L-R): unidentified; Chief of Pediatrics at Johns Hopkins Hospital and professor of pediatrics at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Dr. Robert E. Cooke; Director of the Psychiatry Department at Children's Hospital in Washington, D.C., Dr. Reginald S. Lourie; Secretary of Labor, Willard Wirtz; Senator John O. Pastore of Rhode Island; Representative Leo W. O’Brien of New York; Representative Edith Green of Oregon; Senator Harrison A. Williams of New Jersey (partially hidden, in back); Senator Ralph Yarborough of Texas; Representative Oren Harris of Arkansas; Representative Paul G. Rogers of Florida (behind); Senator Lister Hill of Alabama; Representative George M. Rhodes of Pennsylvania; Senator Claiborne Pell of Rhode Island (in back); Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, Anthony J. Celebrezze (in shadow); unidentified. Cabinet Room, White House, Washington, D.C.