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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR7981-B
President John F. Kennedy meets with Representative Carl D. Perkins of Kentucky (left) and Under Secretary of Commerce, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr. (right), regarding an announcement of a federal grant for the purchase of five miners' hospitals in Kentucky whose transfer was negotiated by the Department of Commerce's Area Redevelopment Administration (ARA) as part of an effort to revitalize the Appalachian region. Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
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