Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR7535-B
President John F. Kennedy (seated) distributes pens after signing the Trade Expansion Act of 1962. Standing (L-R): unidentified; Chairman of the Committee for a National Trade Policy (CNTP), Carl J. Gilbert (in back, mostly hidden); Representative John J. Flynt, Jr. (Georgia); Representative Hale Boggs (Louisiana); Representative Wilbur D. Mills of Arkansas (receiving a pen from President Kennedy); Senator Robert S. Kerr (Oklahoma); Representative John W. Byrnes (Wisconsin); Senator Mike Mansfield (Montana); Senator Russell B. Long (Louisiana); Senator John O. Pastore (Rhode Island); Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (Minnesota); Representative Cecil R. King of California (facing away); Secretary of the Treasury, C. Douglas Dillon (in back, mostly hidden); Secretary of State, Dean Rusk (in shadow); Representative Howard H. Baker (Tennessee). Fish Room, White House, Washington, D.C.