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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-408-1-62
President John F. Kennedy (seated at desk) signs the Food and Agricultural Act of 1962. Others (L-R): unidentified stenographer (seated); Assistant to Senator Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota, David G. Gartner; Master of the National Grange, Herschel D. Newsom; Under Secretary of Agriculture, Charles S. Murphy (in back, mostly hidden); Secretary of the Citizens Committee on Natural Resources, Dr. Spencer M. Smith, Jr.; Representative Ross Bass (Tennessee); Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Marketing and Foreign Agriculture, John P. Duncan, Jr.; Representative Harold D. Cooley (North Carolina); Secretary of Agriculture, Orville L. Freeman; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (Minnesota); Senator Allen J. Ellender (Louisiana); Chairman of the National Agricultural Advisory Commission, Harry B. Caldwell (in back); President of the Missouri Farmers Association, Fred V. Heinkel; Representative W. R. Poage (Texas); Representative Paul C. Jones (Missouri); Representative E. C. "Took" Gathings (Arkansas); Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Rural Development and Conservaton, John A. Baker. Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.