Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972

President Harry S. Truman accepts an invitation to speak at the United States Military Academy at West Point on May 20, 1952. From left to right: President Harry S. Truman, General J. Lawton Collins, Cadet First Captain Gordon Carpenter, Major General Frederick A. Irving, West Point Academy Superintendent, and Secretary of the Army Frank Pace.

President Harry S. Truman (right) presents a scroll to the retiring District of Columbia Engineer Commissioner Brigadier General Gordon R. Young (left) while Mrs. Young (center) looks on.

President Harry S. Truman (second from right) presents a scroll to the retiring District of Columbia Engineer Commissioner Brigadier General Gordon R. Young (left) while Mrs. Young (second from left) looks on. Also present is Secretary of the Army Frank Pace (right).

President Harry S. Truman (seated, left) presents Secretary of Defense George Marshall (seated, right) with one of the pens he used in signing the proclamation declaring May 19 as Armed Forces Day. Standing, from left to right: Admiral Forrest P. Sherman, General Hoyt Vandenberg, Secretary of the Army Frank Pace, Secretary of the Navy Francis P. Matthews, Secretary of the Air Force Thomas Finletter, and General Omar Bradley, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff.

President Harry S. Truman (front row, third from the right) and Secretary of the Army Frank Pace Jr. (front row, second from the right) with members of the 82nd Airborne in the Rose Garden behind the White House. All others are unidentified.

President Harry S. Truman (front row, fifth from right) and Secretary of the Army Frank Pace (front row, fourth from right) with members of the desegregated 82nd Airborne in the Rose Garden behind the White House. All others are unidentified.

Senator Harry S. Truman is the keynote speaker at the ground breaking ceremony for the Pratt and Whitney Plant in Kansas City. He is shown speaking at the podium, the sky in the background. Pratt and Whitney later became the Bendix Plant, located in Kansas City, Missouri at 95th and Troost. Donor: Harvey H. Lippincott, archivist of Pratt and Whitney. It was sent to the Truman Library by Floyd A. Walker, editor of Bendix newsletter. Credit photo to Pratt and Whitney. The Pratt and Whitney Archives are located in East Hartford, Connecticut.

President Harry S. Truman (near center, in civilian clothes) shakes hands with an unidentified armed forces officers and says goodbye to unidentified men before leaving Wake Island. President Truman traveled to Wake Island to confer with General Douglas MacArthur. Also present is Special Assistant to the President Averell Harriman (just behind and to the left of the President); Press Secretary Charles Ross (visible behind and to the right of Harriman); and Secretary of the Army Frank Pace (second man behind Ross). All others are unidentified.

President Harry S. Truman in his office with British Prime Minister Clement Attlee. Clockwise from lower left President Truman, Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Secretary of Defense George C. Marshall, and Prime Minister Attlee. The photo is autographed by President Truman.

Seated, left to right: Governor W. Averell Harriman, former President Harry S. Truman. former First Lady Bess Truman, and journalist Louis Lochner seated at the Sheraton Astor Hotel in New York City. They are at the Overseas Press Club of America banquet. From: George S. Zimbel Collection.