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Harry S. Truman and Strom Thurmond at Reserve Officers Association Convention

Former President Harry S. Truman (left) has a warm handshake for Strom Thurmond, former governor of South Carolina and Dixiecrat candidate for President in 1948, as the two met in a receiving line at the Reserve Officer's Association convention dinner in Philadelphia tonight. When questioned later on what words passed between them, Thurmond said it was just a "greeting of one reserve officer to another." Both Truman and Thurmond are colonels in the U.S. Army. In center is Capt. Robert G. Burke, USNR, national president of the Reserve Officer's Association. From: Houston Post.

Former President Harry S. Truman, Lt. Col. Robert Adams, and Dewey Short at a Reserve Officers Association Banquet

Former President Harry S. Truman chats with Dewey Short (right), Assistant Secretary of the Army for the Reserves, while Lt. Col. Robert E. Adams (center) stands behind Truman and gestures to someone out of sight. All are attending a Reserve Officers Association awards banquet. From: Robert E. Adams, Research Hospital, Kansas City, Missouri