Cabinet officers

President Harry S. Truman and his Cabinet, in the Cabinet Room at the White House: (clockwise around table from left) Secretary of the Interior Julius Krug; Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer; Vice-President Alben Barkley; Secretary of Labor Maurice Tobin; Secretary of Agriculture Charles Brannan; Postmaster General Jesse Donaldson; Secretary of Defense James Forrestal; Secretary of State Dean Acheson; President Truman; Secretary of the Treasury John Snyder; and Attorney General Tom Clark.

Dean Acheson (left) taking the oath of office as Secretary of State, with Chief Justice Fred Vinson (right) administering the oath. Standing in the background are, from left to right: unidentified man, Mrs. Alice Acheson, unidentified woman, Congressman Sol Bloom, Senator Arthur Vandenberg, Senator Tom Connally, President Harry S. Truman, Major General Harry Vaughan, Captain Robert Dennison, and Mary Jane Truman.

President Harry S. Truman (right) shaking hands with Secretary of State Dean Acheson (left) at Acheson's swearing-in ceremony in the Oval Office. Standing in the background, from left to right, are: Senator Tom Connally, Major General Harry Vaughan (partly obscured by Acheson), Chief Justice Fred Vinson, Mary Jane Truman, and two unidentified women.

From left to right, President Harry S. Truman, Secretary of State Dean Acheson, and Chief Justice Fred Vinson at Acheson's swearing-in ceremony in the Oval Office. Standing in the background, from left to right, are: unidentified woman, unidentified man, Mrs. Alice Acheson, unidentified woman, Congressman Sol Bloom, Senator Arthur Vandenberg, Senator Tom Connally, Major General Harry Vaughan (partly obscured by Vinson), Captain Robert Dennison, and Mary Jane Truman.

President Harry S. Truman (right) shaking hands with Secretary of State Dean Acheson (left) during Acheson's swearing-in ceremony in the Oval Office. Standing in the background are, from left to right: Major General Harry Vaughan, Captain Robert Dennison, Chief Justice Fred Vinson (partly obscured by Truman), Mary Jane Truman, and three unidentified women.

Dean Acheson (left) taking the oath of office as Secretary of State in the Oval Office, with Chief Justice Fred Vinson (right) administering the oath. Standing in the background are Attorney General Tom Clark (left), Mrs. Alice Acheson (visible between Mr. Acheson and Justice Vinson), Senator Tom Connally (partly obscured by Justice Vinson), President Harry S. Truman, and Major General Harry Vaughan. All others are unidentified.

Dean Acheson (left) being sworn in as Secretary of State by Supreme Court Chief Justice Fred Vinson (right). Standing behind his desk in the Oval Office is President Harry S. Truman. In the background from left to right are: Mrs. Alice Acheson, unidentified woman, Congressman Sol Bloom, Senator Arthur Vandenberg, Senator Tom Connally, Major General Harry Vaughan, Captain Robert Dennison, Mary Jane Truman, and an unidentified woman.

Attorney General Tom Clark (foreground, left) chatting with two unidentified women at President Harry S. Truman's Inaugural Ball at the National Guard Armory in Washington, D.C. All others are unidentified.

Members of President Harry S. Truman's Cabinet watch the Inaugural parade from the reviewing stand. Front row, left to right: Secretary of the Interior Julius Krug, unidentified boy, unidentified woman, Postmaster General Jesse Donaldson, unidentified woman. In the second row, left to right are: Under Secretary of State Robert Lovett, Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer, and Attorney General Tom Clark. All others are unidentified.

The limousine of Julius Krug, Secretary of Interior, is in foreground in this view of the limousines of dignitaries in President Harry S. Truman's inaugural parade.