Photograph
White House Photographs
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President John F. Kennedy (seated at desk) signs the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) Authorization Act for 1963. Standing (L-R): Representative Craig Hosmer (California); Chairman of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, Representative Chet Holifield (California); Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Senator Henry M. “Scoop” Jackson (Washington); Senator Clinton P. Anderson of New Mexico (in back); Representative Melvin Price (Illinois); Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Water and Power Development, Kenneth Holum; Representative Don Magnuson (Washington); Administrator of the Bonneville Power Administration, Charles F. Luce; unidentified; Under Secretary of the Interior, James K. Carr; unidentified. Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.