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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR7126-B
Secretary of Commerce, Luther H. Hodges, speaks at the presentation of the “E-for-Export” certificate of excellence to ten companies (as part of the Export Expansion Program). Left to right: award recipient and President of Dan River Mills, Inc., William J. Erwin; award recipient and editor of Steel magazine, Walter Campbell; Senator Claiborne Pell (Rhode Island); Congressman Emanuel Celler (New York); Congressman William F. Ryan (New York); Congressman Wright Patman (Texas); Congressman George P. Miller (California); Secretary Hodges (at microphone); Congressman Leonard Farbstein (New York); President John F. Kennedy; Senator Clair Engle (California); White House Secret Service agent, Charlie Kunkel; Senator John O. Pastore (Rhode Island). Fish Room, White House, Washington, D.C.