Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR8206-D
President John F. Kennedy (seated at table) signs the Maternal and Child Health and Mental Retardation Planning Amendments of 1963, an amendment to the Social Security Act. Looking on (left to right): Senator Vance Hartke (Indiana); Representative Wilbur D. Mills (Arkansas); Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; unidentified (in back); Senator Abraham Ribicoff (Connecticut); Representative Albert Thomas of Texas (in back, partially obscured by flag); Representative Eugene J. Keogh of New York (in back); Senator Clinton P. Anderson (New Mexico); two unidentified (in back); Senator Lister Hill (Alabama); two unidentified (in back); Senator Frank Carlson (Kansas); Representative Howard H. Baker (Tennessee); five unidentified; President of the National Association for Retarded Children (NARC), John G. Fettinger (wearing bow tie); Gwendolyn Fettinger; unidentified; Executive Director of NARC, Dr. Gunnar Dybwad (wearing bow tie); two unidentified (in back); Eunice Kennedy Shriver, consultant to the President's Panel on Mental Retardation. Cabinet Room, White House, Washington, D.C.