Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-60-3-63
President John F. Kennedy (seated at desk) hands a pen to Senator Warren G. Magnuson (Washington) after signing reclamation contracts for two water irrigation projects, the Columbia Basin Project in Washington State and the San Luis Unit of the Central Valley Project in California. Standing (left to right): unidentified; Secretary of the Interior, Stewart Udall (in back, mostly obscured); unidentified (mostly obscured); unidentified (in front); Representative Wayne N. Aspinall (Colorado); Senator Henry M. "Scoop" Jackson (Washington); General Manager of the Westlands Water District, Ralph M. Brody (in back, mostly obscured); Senator Clair Engle (California); President of the Westlands Water District, Russell Giffen; Senator Thomas H. Kuchel (California); Senator Clinton P. Anderson (New Mexico); Senator Magnuson; Representative Julia Butler Hansen (Washington); unidentified (in back); Representative Michael J. Kirwan (Ohio); Representative Walter Rogers (Texas); unidentified. Fish Room, White House, Washington, D.C.