Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C20818
President John F. Kennedy presents an “E-for-Export” certificate of excellence (as part of the Export Expansion Program) for C.G. Hokanson Company, Inc. to the company’s president, Carl G. Hokanson. Left to right: Senator Claiborne Pell of Rhode Island (on edge of frame); Congressman Emanuel Celler (New York); Congressman William F. Ryan (New York); Mr. Hokanson; Congressman George P. Miller of California (in back); Secretary of Commerce, Luther H. Hodges; Assistant Secretary of Commerce for International Affairs, Jack Behrman (behind Secretary Hodges); President Kennedy; Senator Clair Engle (California); White House Secret Service agent, Charlie Kunkel; Senator John O. Pastore (Rhode Island); unidentified (on edge of frame). Fish Room, White House, Washington, D.C.