Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C22232
President John F. Kennedy (seated at desk) delivers remarks at the signing of a bill to authorize the Navajo Indian Irrigation and San Juan-Chama Reclamation Projects. Looking on (L-R): unidentified; Representative Walter Rogers (Texas); Representative Wayne N. Aspinall (Colorado); unidentified (in back, mostly hidden); Representative Joseph M. Montoya (New Mexico); Representative Thomas G. Morris (New Mexico); Secretary of the Interior, Stewart Udall; Senator Clinton P. Anderson (New Mexico); Navajo Tribal Council Chairman, Paul Jones; Navajo Tribal Council Executive Secretary, J. Maurice McCabe; and Senator Dennis Chávez (New Mexico). Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
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