Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-24486
President John F. Kennedy (seated) distributes pens after signing the Trade Expansion Act of 1962. Standing (L-R): Secretary of Commerce, Luther H. Hodges; unidentified (in back); Representative John J. Flynt, Jr. (Georgia); Representative Hale Boggs (Louisiana); Secretary of Defense, Robert S. McNamara (very back, mostly hidden); President of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), George Meany (face obscured); Representative Wilbur D. Mills (Arkansas); Senator Harry Flood Byrd (Virginia); Senator Robert S. Kerr (Oklahoma); Representative John W. Byrnes (Wisconsin); Senator Mike Mansfield of Montana (receiving a pen from President Kennedy); Senator Russell B. Long of Louisiana (partially hidden); Senator John O. Pastore (Rhode Island); Representative Cecil R. King (California); Representative Howard H. Baker (Tennessee); Special Assistant to the President for International Trade Policy, Howard C. Petersen (on edge of frame). Fish Room, White House, Washington, D.C.