Page 24 - USS South Carolina Keel Laying

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Photograph of U.S. Representative L. Mendel Rivers, Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, authenticating his quotation - "The American People Stand to Lose Everything if We Fail to Discharge Our Awesome Responsibilities in Respect to Our National Defense" - on the USS South Carolina keel plaque. Principals and their spouses visible in the background are (from left), Mouza (Coutelais-du-Roche) Zumwalt, Senator Strom Thurmond, Secretary of the Navy John Chafee, Vernice "Cam" (Caneer) Holifield, and Lennis "Bud" Ackerman. The image was removed from an old photograph album.

Gift of Margaret Middleton Rivers Eastman.