Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-435-12-63
President John F. Kennedy (seated at desk) hands a pen to Representative Kenneth A. Roberts (Alabama) after signing the Health Professions Educational Assistance Act of 1963. Also pictured: Under Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW), Ivan A. Nestingen; Secretary of HEW, Anthony J. Celebrezze; Director of the Department of Legislation for the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), Andrew Biemiller; Senator Jacob K. Javits (New York); Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (Minnesota); Representative Paul G. Rogers (Florida); Senator George A. Smathers (Florida); Representative George M. Rhodes (Pennsylvania); Representative William L. Springer (Illinois); Surgeon General of the Public Health Service, Luther L. Terry. Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.