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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1962-11-01-A
AR29, ST15, KN25
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR7858-A
President John F. Kennedy (left, standing on steps) speaks to a group of attendees from the National Conference on Cooperatives and the Future. Those in attendance include Secretary of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman; members of the Department of Agriculture's Advisory Committee on Cooperatives; and representatives of the American Institute of Cooperation, the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives, the National Federation of Grain Cooperatives, the National Milk Producers Federation, the Cooperative League of the U.S.A., and the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association. Rose Garden, White House, Washington, D.C.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR7157-D
President John F. Kennedy (seated) signs the Proclamation designating the week of April 9, 1962, as Voluntary Overseas Aid Week. Leaders of American humanitarian and religious organizations look on. Standing, (L-R): Unidentified; Richard W. Reuter, Executive Director of CARE; Fowler Hamilton, Administrator of the Agency for International Development; Dr. Franklin Clark Fry, President of Lutheran World Relief; Joseph Meyerhoff, General Chairman of the United Jewish Appeal; Secretary of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman; Rabbi Herbert A. Friedman, Executive Vice Chairman of the United Jewish Appeal; Rt. Rev. John F. McCarthy, Assistant Executive Director of Catholic Relief Services; unidentified (in back, mostly hidden); Director of Food for Peace George McGovern; and unidentified. According to the President's schedule, also present at the signing ceremony are: Gilbert E. Blackford, Public Relations, Church World Service; Harold Evans, Chairman of the American Friends Service Committee; Raphael Levy, Director of Publicity for the United Jewish Appeal; William Maier, Chairman of International Services and Affairs of the American Friends Service Committee; William H. McCahon, Executive Director of the Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid; and Canon Almon Pepper, Chairman of the National Council of Churches. Cabinet Room, White House, Washington, D.C.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR7157-C
President John F. Kennedy (seated) signs the Proclamation designating the week of April 9, 1962, as Voluntary Overseas Aid Week. Leaders of American humanitarian and religious organizations look on. Standing, (L-R): Unidentified; Richard W. Reuter, Executive Director of CARE; Fowler Hamilton, Administrator of the Agency for International Development; Dr. Franklin Clark Fry, President of Lutheran World Relief; Joseph Meyerhoff, General Chairman of the United Jewish Appeal; Secretary of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman; Rabbi Herbert A. Friedman, Executive Vice Chairman of the United Jewish Appeal; Rt. Rev. John F. McCarthy, Assistant Executive Director of Catholic Relief Services; unidentified (in back, mostly hidden); Director of Food for Peace George McGovern; and unidentified. According to the President's schedule, also present at the signing ceremony are: Gilbert E. Blackford, Public Relations, Church World Service; Harold Evans, Chairman of the American Friends Service Committee; Raphael Levy, Director of Publicity for the United Jewish Appeal; William Maier, Chairman of International Services and Affairs of the American Friends Service Committee; William H. McCahon, Executive Director of the Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid; and Canon Almon Pepper, Chairman of the National Council of Churches. Cabinet Room, White House, Washington, D.C.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR7157-B
President John F. Kennedy (seated) delivers remarks at the signing of the Proclamation designating the week of April 9, 1962, as Voluntary Overseas Aid Week. Leaders of American humanitarian and religious organizations look on. Standing, (L-R): Unidentified; Richard W. Reuter, Executive Director of CARE; Fowler Hamilton, Administrator of the Agency for International Development (in back); Dr. Franklin Clark Fry, President of Lutheran World Relief; Joseph Meyerhoff, General Chairman of the United Jewish Appeal; Secretary of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman; Rabbi Herbert A. Friedman, Executive Vice Chairman of the United Jewish Appeal; Rt. Rev. John F. McCarthy, Assistant Executive Director of Catholic Relief Services; unidentified (in back, partially hidden); Director of Food for Peace George McGovern; and unidentified. According to the President's schedule, also present at the signing ceremony are: Gilbert E. Blackford, Public Relations, Church World Service; Harold Evans, Chairman of the American Friends Service Committee; Raphael Levy, Director of Publicity for the United Jewish Appeal; William Maier, Chairman of International Services and Affairs of the American Friends Service Committee; William H. McCahon, Executive Director of the Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid; and Canon Almon Pepper, Chairman of the National Council of Churches. Cabinet Room, White House, Washington, D.C.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR7157-A
Leaders of American humanitarian and religious organizations present President John F. Kennedy with a framed scroll citing his "vigorous championship of constructive assistance to the needy abroad" during the signing of the Proclamation designating the week of April 9, 1962, as Voluntary Overseas Aid Week. (L-R) Unidentified; Rabbi Herbert A. Friedman, Executive Vice Chairman of the United Jewish Appeal; Richard W. Reuter, Executive Director of CARE; Fowler Hamilton, Administrator of the Agency for International Development; Dr. Franklin Clark Fry, President of Lutheran World Relief; President Kennedy (holding scroll); Secretary of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman; Rt. Rev. John F. McCarthy, Assistant Executive Director of Catholic Relief Services; unidentified (in back, mostly hidden); Director of Food for Peace George McGovern; and unidentified. According to the President's schedule, also present at the signing ceremony are: Gilbert E. Blackford, Public Relations, Church World Service; Harold Evans, Chairman of the American Friends Service Committee; Raphael Levy, Director of Publicity for the United Jewish Appeal; William Maier, Chairman of International Services and Affairs of the American Friends Service Committee; William H. McCahon, Executive Director of the Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid; Joseph Meyerhoff, General Chairman of the United Jewish Appeal; and Canon Almon Pepper, Chairman of the National Council of Churches. Cabinet Room, White House, Washington, D.C.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR7570-B
President John F. Kennedy and others witness the signing of a contract between the Agency for International Development (AID) and the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) to assist in establishing rural electrification projects in Latin America and other developing countries. Seated at HMS Resolute Desk, left to right: unidentified stenographer (far left); Administrator of the AID, Fowler Hamilton; President of the NRECA, R. A. Yarborough (signing the contract); President Kennedy. Standing (left to right): Vice President of the NRECA, Albert C. "Al" Hauffe; Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Rural Development and Conservation, John A. Baker; Acting U.S. Coordinator for the Alliance for Progress, Graham Martin; Assistant to the General Manager of NRECA, Jerry Anderson; unidentified (in back, partially hidden); member of the NRECA Executive Committee, T. W. Hunter; Administrator of the Rural Electrification Administration (REA), Norman M. Clapp (in back); member of the NRECA Executive Committee, Charles E. Wyckoff; General Manager of the NRECA, Clyde T. Ellis; Secretary-Treasurer of the NRECA, Paul H. Tidwell; member of the NRECA Executive Committee, J. L. Hubbard; member of the NRECA Executive Committee, Clark T. McWhorter; Secretary of Agriculture, Orville Freeman; staff economist for the NRECA, James E. Ross; Director of Management Services for the NRECA, Robert I. Kabat; unidentified. Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.