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Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1963-10-31-A
AR41, ST32
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-490-7-63
President John F. Kennedy (back to camera) hands a pen to Eunice Kennedy Shriver, consultant to the President’s Panel on Mental Retardation, at the signing of the Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Mental Health Center Construction Act. Also pictured: Senator Mike Mansfield of Montana; Chief of Pediatrics at Johns Hopkins Hospital and professor of Pediatrics at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Dr. Robert E. Cooke; Secretary of Labor, Willard Wirtz; Speaker of the House of Representatives, John W. McCormack of Massachusetts; Representative Paul G. Rogers of Florida. Cabinet Room, White House, Washington, D.C.