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White House Photographs
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President John F. Kennedy (at lectern) delivers remarks upon receiving the final report of the President’s Commission on the Status of Women, titled “American Women.” Also pictured: Vice Chairman of the Commission, Dr. Richard A. Lester; contributing editor for the Ladies’ Home Journal, Margaret Hickey; President of the National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW), Viola Hymes; Secretary of Labor, W. Willard Wirtz; Secretary of Commerce, Luther H. Hodges; past president of the National Federation of Business and Professional Women’s Clubs (NFBPWC) and the National Association of Women Lawyers (NAWL), Dr. Marguerite Rawalt; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Representative Edith Green (Oregon); Senator Maurine Neuberger (Oregon); President of Radcliffe College, Dr. Mary I. “Polly” Bunting; Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW), Anthony J. Celebrezze; Senator George D. Aiken (Vermont). East Room, White House, Washington, D.C.