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The years of "Camelot"

John F. Kennedy, 1961-63

Eighty-seventh Congress, 1961-62
Federal-Aid Highway Act ■ Social Security Amendments ■ Housing Act ■ Peace Corps ■ Public Welfare Amendments ■ Foreign Assistance Act ■ Omnibus Farm Program ■ Area Redevelopment Act, for depressed areas ■ Minimum wage increase and major extension of coverage ■ Mass transit improvement program ■ Community Health Facilities Act ■ Aid to dependent children ■ Small Business Investment Act and increased loan authorization ■ Establishment of U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency ■ Ratification of Treaty for Prevention of Pollution of the High Seas by Oil ■ Juvenile Delinquency Act ■ Manpower Development and Retraining Act ■ Communications Satellite Act ■ Public Works Acceleration Act ■ Consumer drug protection ■ Trade Expansion Act ■ Educational Television Act ■ Migrant farm workers' health clinics ■ Work Hours Act, requiring time and a half after eight hours ■ Senior Citizens Housing Act ■ Berlin Resolution ■ Cuba Resolution ■

Eighty-eighth Congress, 1963

Clean Air Act ■ Nuclear Test Ban Treaty ■ Medical Education Act ■ Mental Health and Mental Retardation Acts ■ Equal Pay Act, requiring equal pay for equal work regardless of sex ■ Mass Transit Act, funding research and development ■

[[image - black & white photograph of Andrew Hatcher]]
[[caption]] ANDREW J. HATCHER Associate Press Secretary [[/caption]]

In 1960, President John F. Kennedy named Andrew Hatcher as his associate press secretary - thus making him the first major Negro appointee of the "New Frontier." Hatcher was the individual through whom many of the President's important news releases were made.

Born in Princeton, New Jersey in 1925, Hatcher attended Springfield College, graduating with a B. A. degree. During World War II, he served for three years in the Army as a second lieutenant and, after his discharge, took a job with the San Francisco Sun-Reporter  

[[image - black & white photograph of Robert Kennedy]]

We Shall Overcome

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