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Consultant to the President’s Panel on Mental Retardation, Eunice Kennedy Shriver (center), stands with Representative Oren Harris of Arkansas (left) and Senator Lister Hill of Alabama (right) at the signing of the Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Mental Health Center Construction Act. Man at far left in background is unidentified. Cabinet Room, White House, Washington, D.C.
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President John F. Kennedy signs the Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Mental Health Center Construction Act. Looking on (L-R): Representative Leo W. O’Brien of New York; Representative Edith Green of Oregon; Representative Albert Thomas of Texas; Senator Ralph Yarborough of Texas. Cabinet Room, White House, Washington, D.C.
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President John F. Kennedy (seated in foreground, out of focus) signs the Maternal and Child Health and Mental Retardation Planning Amendments of 1963, an amendment to the Social Security Act. Standing in background (left to right): unidentified (partially hidden on edge of frame); President of the National Association for Retarded Children (NARC), John G. Fettinger (wearing bow tie); Gwendolyn Fettinger; unidentified (in back); Executive Director of NARC, Dr. Gunnar Dybwad (wearing bow tie); unidentified (in back); Representative John E. Fogarty (Rhode Island); Eunice Kennedy Shriver, consultant to the President's Panel on Mental Retardation; unidentified (in back); Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW), Anthony J. Celebrezze. Cabinet Room, White House, Washington, D.C.
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President John F. Kennedy signs the Maternal and Child Health and Mental Retardation Planning Amendments of 1963, an amendment to the Social Security Act. Cabinet Room, White House, Washington, D.C.
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White House Photographs
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President John F. Kennedy signs the Maternal and Child Health and Mental Retardation Planning Amendments of 1963, an amendment to the Social Security Act. Cabinet Room, White House, Washington, D.C.
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President John F. Kennedy (seated) signs the Maternal and Child Health and Mental Retardation Planning Amendments of 1963, an amendment to the Social Security Act. Also pictured (looking on, mostly in shadow): Senator Frank Carlson (Kansas); Representative Howard H. Baker (Tennessee); President of the National Association for Retarded Children (NARC), John G. Fettinger; Gwendolyn Fettinger. Cabinet Room, White House, Washington, D.C.
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President John F. Kennedy signs the Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Mental Health Center Construction Act. Looking on are Senator George A. Smathers (left) and Representative Paul G. Rogers (right), both of Florida. Cabinet Room, White House, Washington, D.C.
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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.
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White House Photographs
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President John F. Kennedy delivers remarks upon signing the Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Mental Health Center Construction Act. Also pictured: Chief of Pediatrics at Johns Hopkins Hospital and professor of Pediatrics at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Dr. Robert E. Cooke; Senator Mike Mansfield of Montana; 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; Speaker of the House of Representatives, John W. McCormack of Massachusetts; Representative Leo W. O’Brien of New York; Senator Harrison A. Williams of New Jersey; Representative Edith Green of Oregon; Senator Ralph Yarborough of Texas; Representative Albert Thomas of Texas; Representative Oren Harris of Arkansas; Representative Paul G. Rogers of Florida; Senator Lister Hill of Alabama; Representative George M. Rhodes of Pennsylvania; Senator Claiborne Pell of Rhode Island; Representative John B. Bennett of Michigan; Representative John E. Fogarty of Rhode Island; Assistant to the Secretary of Labor, Daniel Moynihan; Special Assistant to the President for Mental Retardation, Dr. Stafford L. Warren. Cabinet Room, White House, Washington, D.C.
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White House Photographs
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President John F. Kennedy hands a pen to Senator Mike Mansfield of Montana at the signing of the Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Mental Health Center Construction Act. Left to right: Secretary of Labor, Willard Wirtz (face obscured); Senator George A. Smathers of Florida; Senator Ralph Yarborough of Texas (behind); Senator Mansfield; Representative Leo W. O’Brien of New York; Senator Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota; President Kennedy; unidentified; Representative Edith Green of Oregon (mostly hidden); unidentified; Senator Lister Hill of Alabama (behind); unidentified; Director of Special Education at the Teachers College at Columbia University, Dr. Frances Partridge Connor (partially hidden); Representative Albert Thomas of Texas; unidentified (at far right edge of frame). Cabinet Room, White House, Washington, D.C.
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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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President John F. Kennedy (in background) hands a pen to his sister, Eunice Kennedy Shriver (consultant to the President's Panel on Mental Retardation), after signing the Maternal and Child Health and Mental Retardation Planning Amendments of 1963, an amendment to the Social Security Act. Standing in group at left: Representative Eugene J. Keogh (New York); Senator Clinton P. Anderson (New Mexico); Senator Lister Hill (Alabama); Senator Frank Carlson (Kansas); Director of the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness, Dr. Richard L. Masland (in front of window); Representative Howard H. Baker (Tennessee). Standing in group with President Kennedy and Mrs. Shriver: President of the National Association for Retarded Children (NARC), John G. Fettinger; Gwendolyn Fettinger; Executive Director of NARC, Dr. Gunnar Dybwad; Representative John E. Fogarty (Rhode Island); Special Assistant to the President for Mental Retardation, Dr. Stafford L. Warren. Photographers film at right. Cabinet Room, White House, Washington, D.C. [Notes: Light scratching in lower and upper portions of image is original to the negative.]
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President John F. Kennedy (seated at table) signs the Maternal and Child Health and Mental Retardation Planning Amendments of 1963, an amendment to the Social Security Act. Those standing around table include (beginning at far left): Representative John W. Byrnes (Wisconsin); Senator Vance Hartke (Indiana); Representative Wilbur D. Mills (Arkansas); Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Senator Abraham Ribicoff (Connecticut); Representative Eugene J. Keogh (New York); Senator Clinton P. Anderson (New Mexico); Senator Lister Hill (Alabama); Senator Frank Carlson (Kansas); Representative Howard H. Baker (Tennessee); President of the National Association for Retarded Children (NARC), John G. Fettinger; Gwendolyn Fettinger; Executive Director of NARC, Dr. Gunnar Dybwad; Eunice Kennedy Shriver, consultant to the President's Panel on Mental Retardation; Special Assistant to the President for Mental Retardation, Dr. Stafford L. Warren; Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW), Anthony J. Celebrezze; Deputy Special Counsel to the President, Myer Feldman. Motion picture photographers film at far right. Cabinet Room, White House, Washington, D.C.
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President John F. Kennedy (seated at table) delivers remarks at the signing of the Maternal and Child Health and Mental Retardation Planning Amendments of 1963, an amendment to the Social Security Act. Those standing around table include (beginning at far left): Representative John W. Byrnes (Wisconsin); Senator Vance Hartke (Indiana); Representative Wilbur D. Mills (Arkansas); Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Senator Abraham Ribicoff (Connecticut); Representative Eugene J. Keogh (New York); Senator Clinton P. Anderson (New Mexico); Senator Lister Hill (Alabama); Senator Frank Carlson (Kansas); Representative Howard H. Baker (Tennessee); President of the National Association for Retarded Children (NARC), John G. Fettinger; Gwendolyn Fettinger; Executive Director of NARC, Dr. Gunnar Dybwad; Eunice Kennedy Shriver, consultant to the President's Panel on Mental Retardation; Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW), Anthony J. Celebrezze. Cabinet Room, White House, Washington, D.C.
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President John F. Kennedy (seated at table) hands a pen to Representative Wilbur D. Mills (Arkansas) after signing the Maternal and Child Health and Mental Retardation Planning Amendments of 1963, an amendment to the Social Security Act. Standing (left to right): Under Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW), Ivan A. Nestingen; Representative John W. Byrnes (Wisconsin); Senator Vance Hartke (Indiana); Representative Mills (receiving a pen from President Kennedy); unidentified (in back); Senator Abraham Ribicoff (Connecticut); Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Representative Albert Thomas of Texas (in back, partially hidden); Senator Clinton P. Anderson (New Mexico); unidentified (in back); Senator Lister Hill (Alabama); unidentified (in back); Senator Frank Carlson (Kansas); unidentified (in back); Representative Howard H. Baker (Tennessee); unidentified (in back). Cabinet Room, White House, Washington, D.C.
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President John F. Kennedy (seated at table) signs the Maternal and Child Health and Mental Retardation Planning Amendments of 1963, an amendment to the Social Security Act. Looking on (left to right): Senator Vance Hartke (Indiana); Representative Wilbur D. Mills (Arkansas); Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; unidentified (in back); Senator Abraham Ribicoff (Connecticut); Representative Albert Thomas of Texas (in back, partially obscured by flag); Representative Eugene J. Keogh of New York (in back); Senator Clinton P. Anderson (New Mexico); two unidentified (in back); Senator Lister Hill (Alabama); two unidentified (in back); Senator Frank Carlson (Kansas); Representative Howard H. Baker (Tennessee); five unidentified; President of the National Association for Retarded Children (NARC), John G. Fettinger (wearing bow tie); Gwendolyn Fettinger; unidentified; Executive Director of NARC, Dr. Gunnar Dybwad (wearing bow tie); two unidentified (in back); Eunice Kennedy Shriver, consultant to the President's Panel on Mental Retardation. Cabinet Room, White House, Washington, D.C.