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White House Photographs
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Assistant Secretary of Labor for Labor Standards and Executive Vice Chairman of the President’s Commission on the Status of Women, Esther Peterson (left, back to camera), delivers remarks at the presentation of the final report of the Commission, titled “American Women,” to President John F. Kennedy. Also pictured: Vice Chairman of the Commission, Dr. Richard A. Lester; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW), Anthony J. Celebrezze; Senator George D. Aiken (Vermont); President of the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW), Dorothy Height; Director of the New School for Social Research, Dr. Henry David; President of Radcliffe College, Dr. Mary I. “Polly” Bunting; Chairman of the United States Civil Service Commission, John W. Macy, Jr.; Representative Edith Green (Oregon); Senator Maurine Neuberger (Oregon). East Room, White House Washington, D.C.