Secretary of State Dean Acheson greeting President Harry S. Truman upon his return to Washington at the Washington, D.C. airport. President Truman had spent the holidays in Independence, Missouri.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower and grandson, David Eisenhower, depart presidential airplane at Kansas City Municipal Airport. From: Copied from original photographs loaned to the library by Harry Barth. Originals were returned to Mr. Barth.
Latest informal photo of Mrs. Harry S. Truman, wife of the President, and her daughter, Margaret. Photo was taken at the Washington National Airport yesterday. Mrs. Truman was christening hospital airplanes (this was the famous occasion when Mrs. Truman couldn't break the champagne bottle). From: Beth Gore.
Margaret Truman, daughter of the President, shown leaving Washington National Airport today for her concert debut in Detroit tomorrow night. From: Beth Gore.
After a week in Florida where he rested for what may be a tough fight with John L. Lewis in regard to the coal strike, President Truman returned to Washington by air this afternoon. From: Beth Gore.
President Harry S. Truman (left) and General Dwight D. Eisenhower (right) walking away from the General's airplane on the snowy runway at Washington National Airport in Washington, D.C. The man in the Navy uniform on the right is Admiral Robert Dennison. All others are unidentified.
Secretary of the Army Kenneth Royall (Center)is leaving National Airport for an inspection tour of army installations in Japan, Korea, and other Pacific stations. He is shown here, standing by an airplane, with Army Chief of Staff Gen. Omar Bradley (Left) and Lt. General Albert C. Wedemeyer, Deputy Chief of Staff for Plans and Combat Operations. From: Beth Gore
Russian Foreign Commissar Vyacheslav Molotov (right) is shown at the Washington Airport being greeted by Secretary of State Edward Stettinius, Jr.(left). Russian Ambassador to the United States, Andrei A. Gromyko, is in the center. From: Beth Gore
Beaming happily, left to right in car: President Harry S. Truman, General W. E. Kepner and Secretary of the Air Force Stuart Symington, are driven off to their billets. From: The album, The U. S. Air Force presents Aerial Firepower Demonstration.