Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR7535-C
President John F. Kennedy (seated) distributes pens after signing the Trade Expansion Act of 1962. Standing (L-R): unidentified; Representative John J. Flynt, Jr. (Georgia); Representative Hale Boggs (Louisiana); Secretary of Defense, Robert S. McNamara (in back, mostly hidden); Representative Wilbur D. Mills (Arkansas); Senator Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia (receiving a pen from President Kennedy); Senator Robert S. Kerr (Oklahoma); Representative John W. Byrnes (Wisconsin); Senator Mike Mansfield (Montana); Senator Russell B. Long (Louisiana); Senator John O. Pastore (Rhode Island); Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (Minnesota); Representative Cecil R. King (California); Secretary of the Treasury, C. Douglas Dillon (in back); Representative Howard H. Baker (Tennessee); Special Assistant to the President for International Trade Policy, Howard C. Petersen. Fish Room, White House, Washington, D.C.