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JFKWHP-KN-C18703
President John F. Kennedy and Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson with guests at a ceremony marking the 50th anniversary of the first state Workmen's Compensation Law, enacted in Wisconsin in 1911, on the South Lawn driveway at the White House, Washington, D.C. The guests pose beside an image of the commemorative stamp created for the occasion. (L-R) Secretary of Labor Arthur J. Goldberg; President Kennedy; Governor Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin; Vice President Johnson; Postmaster General J. Edward Day. White House Police Officer, Kenneth M. Burke, stands in the background.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C18701
President John F. Kennedy speaks before an audience at a ceremony marking the 50th anniversary of the first state Workmen's Compensation Law, enacted in Wisconsin in 1911, on the South Lawn driveway at the White House, Washington, D.C. Among those seated behind the President are: Postmaster General, J. Edward Day; Governor of Wisconsin, Gaylord Nelson; Secretary of the Treasury, C. Douglas Dillon; Secretary of Labor, Arthur Goldberg; Under Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare Ivan A. Nestingen; and the only living members of the 1911 Wisconsin legislature, former Wisconsin state Senator Theodore W. Brazeau and Judge Edward T. Fairchild. Also pictured: National Park Service (NPS) Photographer, Abbie Rowe; White House Secret Service agent, Bob Lilley. [Discoloration is original to the negative.]
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6763-B
President John F. Kennedy, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, and guests attend a ceremony marking the 50th anniversary of the first state Workmen's Compensation Law, enacted in Wisconsin in 1911, on the South Lawn driveway at the White House, Washington, D.C. The guests pose beside an image of the commemorative stamp created for the occasion. (L-R) Former Wisconsin state Senator Theodore W. Brazeau (member of the 1911 Wisconsin legislature); Secretary of Labor Arthur J. Goldberg; President Kennedy; Governor Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin; Vice President Johnson; Postmaster General J. Edward Day.