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Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972

Battery D Dinner celebrating the election of President Roosevelt and Vice President-elect Truman

Battery D Dinner celebrating the election of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Vice President-elect Harry S. Truman. At table, left to right: James B. Conway, Newell T. Paterson, Morris Glen Riley, Frank Stanley, Edward D. McKim, Harry S. Truman, Eugene P. Donnelly, John H. Thacher, Col. Harry Vaughan, Godfrey C. Downey, Verne F. Chaney, Fred E. Junion, John M. Carnie. First row standing: Frank Sargart, Ralph W. Taylor, Harry E. Whitney, Carl Pat Reilly, Fred Weiderman, Samuel Dantzig, Francis G. McGowan, Ed Gerye, Charles L. Fredericks, Frank E. Spina, Lawrence F. Becker, Leo J.

President Truman at the new Government Accounting Office Building

President Harry S. Truman laying the cornerstone of the new $25,000,000 Government Accounting Office building in Washington, D. C., and in a speech following the ceremony, he defended the federal budget against criticism conceived in "ignorance, and malice." Photograph is autographed by Frank L. Yates, Assistant Comptroller General of the United States; W. Englebert Reynolds, Commissioner of Public Buildings; Lindsay C. Warren, Comptroller General of the United States, and John McShain, Builder. Original is oversized.