Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-60-1-63
President John F. Kennedy (seated at desk) signs reclamation contracts for two water irrigation projects, the Columbia Basin Project in Washington State and the San Luis Unit of the Central Valley Project in California. Standing (left to right): Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Water and Power Development, Kenneth Holum (in back, face obscured); unidentified (in front); Secretary of the Interior, Stewart Udall (in back); unidentified (in front); Representative Wayne N. Aspinall (Colorado); Senator Henry M. "Scoop" Jackson (Washington); General Manager of the Westlands Water District, Ralph M. Brody; Senator Clair Engle (California); President of the Westlands Water District, Russell Giffen; Senator Thomas H. Kuchel (California); Senator Clinton P. Anderson (New Mexico); Senator Warren G. Magnuson (Washington); unidentified (in back); Representative Julia Butler Hansen (Washington); Representative Michael J. Kirwan (Ohio); Representative Walter Rogers (Texas). Fish Room, White House, Washington, D.C.