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White House Photographs
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President John F. Kennedy (seated at desk) hands a pen to Navajo Tribal Council Chairman, Paul Jones, after signing a bill to authorize the Navajo Indian Irrigation and San Juan-Chama Reclamation Projects. Standing (L-R): Representative Walter Rogers (Texas); unidentified; Representative Wayne N. Aspinall (Colorado); unidentified (in back); Representative Joseph M. Montoya (New Mexico); unidentified (in back, mostly hidden); Representative Thomas G. Morris (New Mexico); Secretary of the Interior, Stewart Udall; Senator Clinton P. Anderson (New Mexico); Chairman Jones; Navajo Tribal Council Executive Secretary, J. Maurice McCabe (in back, partially hidden); and Senator Dennis Chávez (New Mexico). Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C. [Photograph by Harold Sellers]
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