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Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1963-10-31-A
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.
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Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-490-10-63
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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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.
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