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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1962-08-14-C
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR8215-H
President John F. Kennedy signs the Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Mental Health Center Construction Act. Looking on (L-R): unidentified; Chief of Pediatrics at Johns Hopkins Hospital and professor of pediatrics at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Dr. Robert E. Cooke; Director of the Psychiatry Department at Children's Hospital in Washington, D.C., Dr. Reginald S. Lourie; Secretary of Labor, Willard Wirtz; Senator John O. Pastore of Rhode Island; Representative Leo W. O’Brien of New York; Representative Edith Green of Oregon; Senator Harrison A. Williams of New Jersey (partially hidden, in back); Senator Ralph Yarborough of Texas; Representative Oren Harris of Arkansas; Representative Paul G. Rogers of Florida (behind); Senator Lister Hill of Alabama; Representative George M. Rhodes of Pennsylvania; Senator Claiborne Pell of Rhode Island (in back); Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, Anthony J. Celebrezze (in shadow); unidentified. Cabinet Room, White House, Washington, D.C.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR7412-C
President John F. Kennedy speaks at ceremony honoring the achievements of the Federal Vocational Rehabilitation Program. The ceremony commemorated the program’s rehabilitation of 100,000 people who were trained for a new vocation after becoming disabled. Back row (L-R): President Kennedy; Mary E. Switzer, Commissioner of the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation at the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare; Edward A. Friskie of Boswell, Pennsylvania (“Mr. Rehabilitation” of 1962), the representative of participants in the Rehabilitation program; Mary K. Friskie, Mr. Friskie’s wife; unidentified; Anthony Celebrezze, Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. Mr. Friskie holds the hand of his son, Michael Friskie. Rose Garden, White House, Washington, D.C.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR7412-B
Edward A. Friskie speaks at a ceremony honoring the achievements of the Federal Vocational Rehabilitation Program. The ceremony commemorated the program’s rehabilitation of 100,000 people who were trained for a new vocation after becoming disabled. (L-R): President Kennedy; Edward A. Friskie of Boswell, Pennsylvania (“Mr. Rehabilitation” of 1962), the representative of participants in the Rehabilitation program; Mary E. Switzer, Commissioner of the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation at the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (partially hidden behind Mr. Friskie); Mary K. Friskie, Mr. Friskie’s wife, holding the couple’s son, Michael Friskie; unidentified; Anthony Celebrezze, Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. Rose Garden, White House, Washington, D.C.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR7412-A
President John F. Kennedy attends a ceremony honoring the achievements of the Federal Vocational Rehabilitation Program. The ceremony commemorated the program’s rehabilitation of 100,000 people who were trained for a new vocation after becoming disabled. (L-R): Unidentified; Anthony Celebrezze, Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare; Mary K. Friskie; President Kennedy; Edward A. Friskie of Boswell, Pennsylvania (“Mr. Rehabilitation” of 1962), the representative of participants in the Rehabilitation program; Mary E. Switzer, Commissioner of the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation at the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Reporters, including White House correspondent for United Press International (UPI) Helen Thomas, look on from behind the group. Rose Garden, White House, Washington, D.C.