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Bill Signing – S.1 Public Law 87-27 Area Redevelopment Act. L-R: Congressman Ken Hechler (West Virginia); unidentified man; Senator Jennings Randolph (West Virginia); Area Redevelopment Administrator, William L. Batt, Jr. (in back); Congresswoman Elizabeth Kee (West Virginia); Secretary of Commerce, Luther Hodges (in back); President John F. Kennedy; Senator Robert C. Byrd (West Virginia); Senator John Sherman Cooper (Kentucky), in back; Congressman John M. Slack, Jr. (West Virginia); Congressman Carl D. Perkins (Kentucky). Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
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White House Photographs
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Bill Signing – S.1 Public Law 87-27 Area Redevelopment Act. L-R: Two unidentified men; Congressman Ken Hechler (West Virginia); Senator Jennings Randolph (West Virginia); Congresswoman Elizabeth Kee (West Virginia); Area Redevelopment Administrator, William L. Batt, Jr. (behind Kee, in front of flag); Congressman Daniel J. Flood (Pennsylvania); Secretary of Commerce, Luther Hodges; President John F. Kennedy; Senator Hubert Humphrey (Minnesota), in back; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Senator Paul H. Douglas (Illinois); Congressman Frank Chelf (Kentucky); Senator John Sherman Cooper (Kentucky), behind Chelf; Congressman Brent Spence (Kentucky). Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Lee C. White
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Photograph of state Governors at the Area Redevelopment Advisory Policy Board Conference of Appalachian Governors. Seated (L-R): William L. Batt, Administrator of the Area Redevelopment Administration; Secretary of Commerce, Luther H. Hodges; President John F. Kennedy; Robert C. Weaver, Administrator of the Housing and Home Finance Agency; and Secretary of the Interior, Stewart L. Udall. Standing (L-R): Unidentified man; James Webb, Administrator for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA); Secretary of Agriculture, Orville Freeman; unidentified man; Governor of Maryland, J. Millard Tawes; Governor of Tennessee, Frank G. Clement; Governor of West Virginia, William W. Barron; Governor of Virginia, Albertis S. Harrison; Governor of Kentucky, Bert T. Combs; Under Secretary of Commerce, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr.; and two unidentified men. Cabinet Room, White House, Washington, D.C. Verso is stamped: “27912, 9 April 1963.”