Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C20826
President John F. Kennedy presents an “E-for-Export” certificate of excellence (as part of the Export Expansion Program) for Isbrandtsen Steamship Company, Inc. to the company’s president, Jakob Isbrandtsen. Left to right: Congressman Emanuel Celler (New York); Congressman William F. Ryan (New York); Mr. Isbrandtsen; Secretary of Commerce, Luther H. Hodges (behind microphone); Assistant Secretary of Commerce for International Affairs, Jack Behrman (behind Secretary Hodges); Congressman Leonard Farbstein of New York (in back, partially hidden); President Kennedy; Senator Clair Engle (California); White House Secret Service agent, Charlie Kunkel; Senator John O. Pastore (Rhode Island); unidentified (in back). Fish Room, White House, Washington, D.C.