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Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1963-10-24-B
AR41, ST32
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1963-09-24-B
ST29
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR8206-F
President John F. Kennedy (seated at table) hands a pen to Representative Wilbur D. Mills (Arkansas) after signing the Maternal and Child Health and Mental Retardation Planning Amendments of 1963, an amendment to the Social Security Act. Standing (left to right): Under Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW), Ivan A. Nestingen; Representative John W. Byrnes (Wisconsin); Senator Vance Hartke (Indiana); Representative Mills (receiving a pen from President Kennedy); unidentified (in back); Senator Abraham Ribicoff (Connecticut); Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Representative Albert Thomas of Texas (in back, partially hidden); Senator Clinton P. Anderson (New Mexico); unidentified (in back); Senator Lister Hill (Alabama); unidentified (in back); Senator Frank Carlson (Kansas); unidentified (in back); Representative Howard H. Baker (Tennessee); unidentified (in back). Cabinet Room, White House, Washington, D.C.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-435-6-63
President John F. Kennedy (seated at desk) delivers remarks at the signing of the Health Professions Educational Assistance Act of 1963. Standing: 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; Representative Claude Pepper (Florida); Director of the Department of Legislation for the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), Andrew Biemiller; Senator John O. Pastore (Rhode Island); Senator Ralph Yarborough (Texas); Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (Minnesota); Senator Lister Hill (Alabama); Senator Harrison A. Williams (New Jersey); Senator George A. Smathers (Florida); Representative Seymour Halpern (New York); Representative Paul G. Rogers (Florida); Representative Oren Harris (Arkansas); Special Assistant to the Secretary of HEW for Health and Medical Affairs, Boisfeuillet Jones (mostly hidden); Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson (partially hidden); Representative Kenneth A. Roberts (Alabama); Representative Hale Boggs (Louisiana); Representative William L. Springer (Illinois); Senator Abraham Ribicoff (Connecticut); Senator Claiborne Pell (Rhode Island); Representative George M. Rhodes (Pennsylvania); Surgeon General of the Public Health Service, Luther L. Terry (partially hidden on edge of frame). Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.