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Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972

President Harry S. Truman and his National Advisory Board on Mobilization

President Truman met with his National Advisory Board on Mobilization, a policy group in which labor is participating. Front row L-R: D. W. Brooks, Georgia, President National Council of Farm Cooperatives; C. E. Wilson, Defense Mobilizer; President Harry S. Truman; Philip Murray, President of CIO; Walter P. Reuther, President of UAW-CIO. Second row: Samuel Abbot Smith, businessman of Chelsea, Mass.; George Meany, Secretary-Treasurer of AFL; William H. Davis, New York attorney; Otto A. Seyferth, President of U.S. Chamber of Commerce; Claude A. Putnam, businessman of Keene, N.H.

Truman with New York State Democratic officials and students

President Harry S. Truman is seated at his Oval Office desk with New York State Democratic officials and college students who completed internships with the Democratic State Committee of New York. Standing, from left to right: Dr. Josephine M. Pisani, Professor of Political Science, Queens College; Paul Fitzpatrick, Chairman, New York State Democratic Committee; Donald Bowes; Donald M. Clark; Joyce Martin, Assistant Research Director, New York State Democratic Committee; Dorothy Hayes; Ira Harkavy; John Hart, Jr.; Representative Walter Lynch.