Bill signing - 11970 Public Law 87-794, Trade Expansion Act of 1962, 12:10PM. President John F. Kennedy (seated) distributes pens after signing the Trade Expansion Act of 1962. Standing (L-R): Senator B. Everett Jordan of North Carolina (in back, mostly hidden); Secretary of Commerce, Luther H. Hodges; Executive Director of the Committee for a National Trade Policy (CNTP), John W. Hight (in back); unidentified; Chairman of the CNTP, Carl J. Gilbert (very back, mostly hidden); Representative John J. Flynt, Jr. of Georgia (receiving a pen from President Kennedy); Representative Hale Boggs o


Bill signing - 11970 Public Law 87-794, Trade Expansion Act of 1962, 12:10PM. President John F. Kennedy (seated) distributes pens after signing the Trade Expansion Act of 1962. Standing (L-R): Senator B. Everett Jordan of North Carolina (in back, mostly hidden); Secretary of Commerce, Luther H. Hodges; Executive Director of the Committee for a National Trade Policy (CNTP), John W. Hight (in back); unidentified; Chairman of the CNTP, Carl J. Gilbert (very back, mostly hidden); Representative John J. Flynt, Jr. of Georgia (receiving a pen from President Kennedy); Representative Hale Boggs of Louisiana (face obscured); Secretary of Defense, Robert S. McNamara (very back, partially hidden); President of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), George Meany (partially hidden); Representative Wilbur D. Mills (Arkansas); Senator Harry Flood Byrd (Virginia); Senator Robert S. Kerr (Oklahoma); Representative John W. Byrnes (Wisconsin); Senator Mike Mansfield (Montana); Senator Russell B. Long of Louisiana (partially hidden); Senator John O. Pastore (Rhode Island); Senator Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota (in back, partially hidden); Representative Cecil R. King (California); Representative Howard H. Baker (Tennessee). Fish Room, White House, Washington,


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