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Truman Signing National Security Amendments Bill

73-3203 (untitled)
Accession Number
73-3203
8x10 inches (21x26 cm)
Black & White
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Keywords
Cabinet officers
Legislation
Legislators
Presidents
HST Keywords
Truman - Signing - Documents - National Security Act Amendments
People Pictured
Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972
Early, Stephen T. (Stephen Tyree), 1889-1951
Gray, Gordon, 1909-1982
Johnson, Louis Arthur, 1891-1966
Matthews, Francis Patrick, 1887-1952
Short, Dewey Jackson, 1898-1979
Symington, Stuart, 1901-1988
Vinson, Carl, 1883-1981
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Credit:
Abbie Rowe
National Park Service

Harry S. Truman Library & Museum.

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Description
President Harry S. Truman, seated behind his desk, distributes pens he used to sign the National Security Act Amendments bill to assembled on-lookers. From left to right: Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson, unidentified, Congressman Dewey Short, Congressman Carl Vinson, Secretary of the Army Gordon Gray, unidentified, Secretary of the Air Force Stuart Symington, Under Secretary of Defense Stephen Early, and Secretary of the Navy Francis Matthews.
Date(s)
August 10, 1949