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White House Photographs
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Bill Signing – S.1 Public Law 87-27 Area Redevelopment Act. L-R: Congressman Ken Hechler (West Virginia); unidentified man; Senator Jennings Randolph (West Virginia); Area Redevelopment Administrator, William L. Batt, Jr. (in back); Congresswoman Elizabeth Kee (West Virginia); Secretary of Commerce, Luther Hodges (in back); President John F. Kennedy; Senator Robert C. Byrd (West Virginia); Senator John Sherman Cooper (Kentucky), in back; Congressman John M. Slack, Jr. (West Virginia); Congressman Carl D. Perkins (Kentucky). Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
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White House Photographs
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Bill Signing – S.1 Public Law 87-27 Area Redevelopment Act. L-R: Unidentified man; Secretary of Commerce, Luther Hodges; President John F. Kennedy; Senator Hubert Humphrey (Minnesota); Senator Paul H. Douglas (Illinois). Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
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White House Photographs
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Bill Signing – S.1 Public Law 87-27 Area Redevelopment Act. L-R: Two unidentified men; Congressman Ken Hechler (West Virginia); Senator Jennings Randolph (West Virginia); Congresswoman Elizabeth Kee (West Virginia); Area Redevelopment Administrator, William L. Batt, Jr. (behind Kee, in front of flag); Congressman Daniel J. Flood (Pennsylvania); Secretary of Commerce, Luther Hodges; President John F. Kennedy; Senator Hubert Humphrey (Minnesota), in back; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Senator Paul H. Douglas (Illinois); Congressman Frank Chelf (Kentucky); Senator John Sherman Cooper (Kentucky), behind Chelf; Congressman Brent Spence (Kentucky). Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Lee C. White
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Photograph of state Governors at the Area Redevelopment Advisory Policy Board Conference of Appalachian Governors. Seated (L-R): William L. Batt, Administrator of the Area Redevelopment Administration; Secretary of Commerce, Luther H. Hodges; President John F. Kennedy; Robert C. Weaver, Administrator of the Housing and Home Finance Agency; and Secretary of the Interior, Stewart L. Udall. Standing (L-R): Unidentified man; James Webb, Administrator for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA); Secretary of Agriculture, Orville Freeman; unidentified man; Governor of Maryland, J. Millard Tawes; Governor of Tennessee, Frank G. Clement; Governor of West Virginia, William W. Barron; Governor of Virginia, Albertis S. Harrison; Governor of Kentucky, Bert T. Combs; Under Secretary of Commerce, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr.; and two unidentified men. Cabinet Room, White House, Washington, D.C. Verso is stamped: “27912, 9 April 1963.”
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Records 1961-1964. Microfilm copies of records of the Executive Secretary, the Deputy Under Secretary for Transportation, Area Redevelopment Administration, Maritime Administration, Business and Defense Services Administration, Office of Trade Adjustment, Bureau of International Commerce, and National Bureau of Standards. Hard copy includes speeches and statements of Secretary Luther H. Hodges, reports, studies, publications, Commerce News Digest, Foreign Commerce Weekly (later International Commerce), Survey of Current Business, and the 1960 Census.