Cabinet officers

Floyd Dotson, Chief Clerk of the Department of the Interior (left), swears in Arthur E. Demaray (center) as Director of the National Park Service. Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman looks on.

Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman (right), Cherry Blossom Queen Maldi Tarris (center), and her unidentified escort after the Cherry Blossom Queen pageant at the Jefferson Memorial. All others unidentified.

Attendees at the welcoming ceremony for President Auriol of France stand for the playing of the National Anthem. Front row, left to right: Secretary of Agriculture Charles Brannan; Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman; Attorney General J. Howard McGrath; Secretary of Defense George Marshall; French Ambassador to the United States Henri Bonnet; President Harry S. Truman; President of France Vincent Auriol; District Commissioner John R. Young, and unidentified man. Front row, right of podium, left to right: First Lady Bess W. Truman; Michelle (Mrs. Vincent) Auriol; Jane (Mrs.

President of France Vincent Auriol (at podium) speaks at a welcoming ceremony in his honor outside the District Building. Front row, left to right: Secretary of Agriculture Charles Brannan; Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman; Attorney General J. Howard McGrath; Secretary of Defense George Marshall; French Ambassador to the United States Henri Bonnet (leaning behind Barkley); Vice President Alben Barkley; French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman; President Harry S. Truman; District Commissioner John R. Young; and an unidentified man.

From left to right: Secretary of Defense George Marshall; French Ambassador to the United States Henri Bonnet; Vice President Alben Barkley; President Harry S. Truman; Secretary of State Dean Acheson; President of France Vincent Auriol; French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman; District Commissioner John R. Young; and an unidentified man at the welcoming ceremony for President Auriol outside the District Building. All others are unidentified.

From left to right: President Harry S. Truman; French Ambassador Henri Bonnet; President of France Vincent Auriol; and Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman look at an album of National Park pictures that President Truman gave to President Auriol. W. Averell Harriman, Special Assistant to the President (standing, left), looks on. All others unidentified.

Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman (second from left) watches as James F. Fairman (second from right) and Ken Whitaker (right) are sworn in as Deputy Administrators for the Defense Electric Power Administration. All others unidentified.

President Harry S. Truman (standing far left)holds press conference while on vacation in Key West, Florida. Also present are, from left to right, Admiral William Leahy (behind Truman, mostly obscured), General Robert Landry, General Harry Vaughan, David Niles (wearing sunglasses, partly obscured), Secretary of the Air Force Stuart Symington, and Clark Clifford. On the right, leaning on the back of a chair, is Margaret Truman. All others are unidentified.

Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman (left) and Senator Owen Brewster (second from right) hold a cake for the Maine State Society lobster dinner in the Interior cafeteria. Ann (Mrs. Oscar) Chapman pictured at right. All others unidentified.

Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman (left) and Conrad Wirth, Associate Director of the National Park Service, with an album of National Park pictures and bookends to be presented to President Vincent Auriol of France during his visit to the United States.