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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR7035-D
President John F. Kennedy meets with members of the President’s Commission on the Status of Women in the Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C. (L-R) Two unidentified; Lawyer Marguerite Rawalt; Representative Jessica Weis of New York; unidentified; Margaret Mealey, Executive Secretary of the National Council of Catholic Women; Cynthia C. Wedel, Co-chairwoman of the National Council of Churches’ Committee on the Cooperation of Men and Women in Church and Society; William F. Schnitzler, Secretary-Treasurer of American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO); Eleanor Roosevelt, Chairwoman of the President’s Commission on the Status of Women; John W. Macy, Jr., Chairman of the Civil Service Commission; Representative Edith Green of Oregon (mostly hidden); President Kennedy; Dr. Richard A. Lester, Vice-chairman of the President’s Commission on the Status of Women; Secretary of Labor Arthur J. Goldberg (back to camera); Dorothy Height, President of the National Council of Negro Women; three unidentified; Margaret Hickey, Ladies' Home Journal editor.