Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR7535-D
President John F. Kennedy (seated) distributes pens after signing the Trade Expansion Act of 1962. Standing (L-R): Secretary of Commerce, Luther H. Hodges (on edge of frame); Representative John J. Flynt, Jr. (Georgia); Representative Wilbur D. Mills (Arkansas); Senator Robert S. Kerr (Oklahoma); Representative John W. Byrnes (Wisconsin); Senator Mike Mansfield of Montana (in back); Senator Russell B. Long (Louisiana); Senator John O. Pastore (Rhode Island); Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (Minnesota); Representative Eugene J. Keogh of New York (in back, receiving a pen from President Kennedy); Representative Cecil R. King (California); Representative Howard H. Baker (Tennessee); Special Assistant to the President for International Trade Policy, Howard C. Petersen (in back, partially hidden); Secretary of Agriculture, Orville L. Freeman; Under Secretary of State, George Ball; unidentified. Fish Room, White House, Washington, D.C.