Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-435-8-63
President John F. Kennedy (seated at desk) signs the Health Professions Educational Assistance Act of 1963; an unidentified stenographer sits at left. Standing: Representative John E. Fogarty (Rhode Island); Chief of Pediatrics at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Dr. Robert E. Cooke; Senator Jacob K. Javits (New York); Under Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW), Ivan A. Nestingen (partially hidden); Representative Claude Pepper (Florida); Senator John O. Pastore (Rhode Island); Director of the Department of Legislation for the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), Andrew Biemiller; Senator Ralph Yarborough (Texas); Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (Minnesota); Senator Lister Hill (Alabama); Senator Harrison A. Williams (New Jersey); Senator George A. Smathers of Florida (partially hidden); Representative Seymour Halpern (New York); Representative Paul G. Rogers of Florida (mostly hidden); Representative Oren Harris (Arkansas). Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.