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Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1963-10-31-A
AR41, ST32
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1963-10-24-B
AR41, ST32
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-490-2-63
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.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-476-4-63
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.]
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-476-2-63
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.