Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6455-B
President John F. Kennedy poses with legislators and officials after signing the Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1961 (HR 4806) in the Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C. (L-R) Representative John McCormack of Massachusetts; Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield of Montana; Senator Thomas Kuchel of California; President Kennedy; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Representative Wilbur Mills of Arkansas; Senator Robert S. Kerr (partially hidden) of Oklahoma; Secretary of Labor Arthur Goldberg; Assistant to the Director of the Bureau of Employment Security Merrill G. Murray (partially hidden); Representative Charles Halleck of Indiana; Director of the Bureau of Employment Security Robert C. Goodwin; Assistant Solicitor for the Department of Labor Louise Freeman.
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