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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 folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1963-09-24-B
ST29
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR8215-H
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.
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.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-476-1-63
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.