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Budget Director Kermit Gordon and Wilbur Daigh Mills

Photograph of Kermit Gordon and Wilbur Mills, standing close to each other and talking. Gordon has a cigarette in his left hand and gesticulates as he speaks to Mills. The caption reads, “Budget Director Plugs for JFK Tax Package—Budget Director Kermit Gordon talks to Chairman Wilbur Mills, D—Ark, of the House Ways and Means Committee today as he opens the administration drive in Congress for the Kennedy tax program. He forecast a balanced budget ‘in a few years.’”/tiles/collection/5/5702.xml
Reverse of photograph with printed text that reads, “Kermit Gordon, Wilbur Mills”/tiles/collection/3/35718.xml
Photograph of Kermit Gordon and Wilbur Mills, standing close to each other and talking. Gordon has a cigarette in his left hand and gesticulates as he speaks to Mills. The caption reads, “Budget Director Plugs for JFK Tax Package—Budget Director Kermit Gordon talks to Chairman Wilbur Mills, D—Ark, of the House Ways and Means Committee today as he opens the administration drive in Congress for the Kennedy tax program. He forecast a balanced budget ‘in a few years.’”
Reverse of photograph with printed text that reads, “Kermit Gordon, Wilbur Mills”
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Date

1963-02-18

Maker

Associated Press Wirephoto

Dimensions

8 1/8 x 10 in. (20.6 x 25.4 cm)

Accession Number

2009.014.004

Credit Line

Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives

Object Details

Director of the U.S. Bureau of the Budget Kermit Gordon (left), conferred with Ways and Means Committee Chairman Wilbur Mills before introducing President John Kennedy’s tax program to the House. Mills, a recognized expert in the areas of tax and trade legislation, spent almost 40 years in the House, 18 of those years as head of Ways and Means.

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