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White House Photographs
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President John F. Kennedy speaks with Representative Edith Green and Senator Maurine Neuberger (both of Oregon) after receiving the final report of the President’s Commission on the Status of Women, titled “American Women.” Also pictured: Vice Chairman of the Commission, Dr. Richard A. Lester; President of the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW), Dorothy Height; Executive Director of the National Council of Catholic Women (NCCW), Margaret Mealey; President of the National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW), Viola Hymes; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; President of Radcliffe College, Dr. Mary I. “Polly” Bunting; Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW), Anthony J. Celebrezze; Chairman of the United States Civil Service Commission, John W. Macy, Jr.; Senator George D. Aiken (Vermont). East Room, White House, Washington, D.C.