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White House Photographs
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Speaker of the House of Representatives and Chairman of the House Office Building Commission, John W. McCormack, of Massachusetts (at lectern), delivers remarks at the cornerstone-laying ceremony for the Rayburn House Office Building, dedicated to the late Speaker of the House, Sam Rayburn; President John F. Kennedy sits in center. Also pictured: Representative Leslie C. Arends (Illinois); Representative Clarence Cannon (Missouri); Representative Carl Albert (Oklahoma); Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Earl Warren; member of the House Office Building Commission, Representative Carl Vinson (Georgia); Representative Joseph W. Martin, Jr. (Massachusetts); Architect of the Capitol, J. George Stewart; Rabbi of the Washington Hebrew Congregation, Dr. Norman Gerstenfeld; Representative W. R. Poage (Texas); Special Assistant to the President, Larry O'Brien. Washington, D.C.