Abbie Rowe

President Harry S. Truman (seated, left) with French Prime Minister Rene Pleven (seated, right), Secretary of State Dean Acheson (standing, left), and Secretary of Defense George C. Marshall (standing, right).

President Harry S. Truman (back of table, fourth from right) and members of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, the House Public Lands Committee, and the Senate Committee on Public Works attend a luncheon in the dining room of the Department of the Interior. Also pictured: Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman (back of table, fifth from right); Senator Joseph O'Mahoney (back of table, third from right); Senator Zales Ecton (back of table, second from right); Congressman John R. Murdock (back of table, standing); and Appointment Secretary Matthew Connelly (back of table, left).

President Harry S. Truman (seated, left) with French Prime Minister Rene Pleven (seated, right), Secretary of State Dean Acheson (standing, left), and Secretary of Defense George C. Marshall (standing, right) in the Oval Office.

President Harry S. Truman (center left) and General Dwight D. Eisenhower (center right) at Washington National Airport in Washington, D.C., after Eisenhower's return from Europe. All other individuals are unidentified.

President Harry S. Truman (second from the left, back to camera) at his desk in the Oval Office with Secretary of State Dean Acheson (left), discussing Acheson's meetings with North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) foreign and defense ministers in Brussels. Standing on the left near the lamp is White House Receptionist William Simmons. All the photographers gathered around the front of the desk are unidentified.

President Harry S. Truman (left) with Secretary of Interior Oscar L. Chapman (right) and Assistant Secretary of Interior C.G. Davidson (center) in the Oval Office.

President Harry S. Truman (center) with Charles E. Wilson (left), formerly President of the General Electric Company, taking the oath of office as Director of the Office of Defense Mobilization, as Chief Justice Fred Vinson (right) administers the oath in the Oval Office.

President Harry S. Truman (left) with the Director of the Office of Defense Mobilization, Charles E. Wilson (right).

President Harry S. Truman (left) with Secretary of Interior Oscar L. Chapman (right) and Assistant Secretary of State C. Girard Davidson (center) at the White House.

John Steelman, center, negotiates a settlement in the Enginemen and Firemen's Railroad Strike of 1950. C.D. MacKay, Chairman of Southeastern Carrier Conference Committee and Assistant Vice President of Southern Railway System, is on the extreme left, and David B. Robertson, President of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Enginemen and Firemen, is on the extreme right.