Abbie Rowe

Fred M. Vinson (right) taking the oath of office as Chief Justice of the United States at the South Portico of the White House. The oath is being administered by Chief Justice D. Lawrence Groner of the United States District Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (left).

President Harry S. Truman speaking from the South Portico of the White House the day of the swearing-in of Fred M. Vinson as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

South Portico of the White House on the day that Fred Vinson was sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

Three women, family members of Fred M. Vinson, on the South Grounds of the White House on the occasion of his swearing in as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court. All are unidentified.

President Harry S. Truman speaking from the South Portico of the White House during the swearing-in of Fred M. Vinson as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

Fred M. Vinson (right) at the Southern portico of the White House as he is being sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court by Chief Justice D. Lawrence Groner of the United States District Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (left).

Fred M. Vinson (right) at the Southern portico of the White House as he is being sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court by Chief Justice D. Lawrence Groner of the United States District Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (left).

Crowd on the south lawn of the White House as Fred M. Vinson is sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

President Harry S. Truman confers with members of the Advisory Board of the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion in Washington, D.C.: (front row, left to right) John W. Snyder; Anna M. Rosenberg; President Truman; Eric A. Johnston; and Albert Goss; (back row, left to right) Edward P. Felker; T. C. Cashen; Edward O'Neal; Chester Davis; and Nathaniel Dyke.

President Harry S. Truman (standing, right) and Prime Minister Winston Churchill (left) standing on the rear platform of a special Baltimore & Ohio train, evidently en route to Fulton, Missouri for Churchill's "Iron Curtain" Speech, with the President's Military Aide, General Harry Vaughan, seated nearby.