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President Truman - Oval Office Recording

Oval Office Memovox disc recording, which includes May 23, 1945 press conference in the Oval Office. President Harry S. Truman's eighth news conference was held in his office at the White House at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, May 23, 1945. The recording is poor quality except for the press conference, which can be heard fairly plainly. Also contains other conversation fragments that are hard to understand. The Oval Office recordings were made from 1945 to 1948 by a Memovox machine kept in the Oval Office. This recording was made from Memovac disc 500x.

President Truman and his Cabinet are shown seated around the Table in the Cabinet Room

President Harry S. Truman and his Cabinet are shown seated around the table in the Cabinet Room. Left to Right: Secretary of Interior Julius Krug; Secretary of Commerce Averell Harriman; Federal Works Administrator Philip Fleming; Assistant to the President John Steelman; Secretary of Labor Lewis Schwellenbach; Secretary of Agriculture Clinton Anderson; Postmaster General Jesse Donaldson; Secretary of Defense James Forrestal; Secretary of State George C. Marshall; President Harry S. Truman; Secretary of Treasury John Snyder; Attorney General Tom Clark.

President Truman is shown as he presides at the final Presidential Cabinet meeting before his inauguration

President Truman is shown as he presides at the final Presidential Cabinet meeting before his inauguration. Seated Left to Right: Secretary of Defense James Forrestal, President Harry S. Truman, Vice President Alben Barkley, Treasury Secretary John Snyder. Rear Left to Right: Commerce Secretary Charles Sawyer, Acting Secretary of State Robert Lovett, Interior Secretary Julius Krug, Attorney General Tom Clark, Agricultural Secretary Charles Brannan, Labor Secretary Maurice Tobin, Postmaster General Jesse Donaldson.