Download Audio: If viewing in Chrome browser, click the 3 dots in the player to download. If viewing in Safari, Explorer, or other browser type, right click on the player to access download option.
President Truman's 296th News Conference held in the Indian Treaty Room (Room 474) in the Executive Office Building at 10:30 a.m. on Thursday, February 28, 1952. Topics discussed included: The appointment of Robert T. Bartley to head the Federal Communications Commission; the selection of the Ambassador to the Vatican; President Truman's plans for re-election in 1952; other prospective nominees for President by the Democratic party; Permisson for television cameras to broadcast coverage of the House Un-American activities committee and other congressional committeees; Possible statehood for Alaska and Hawaii; Infiltration of communism into Indochina; the imprisonment of American journalist Wiliam "Bill" Oatsis in Czechoslovakia; and the President's upcoming trip to Key West.