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Senator Truman and railroad officials

Senator Harry S. Truman and railroad officials leaving the White House after conferring with President Franklin D. Roosevelt on the rail situation. Front row, left to right: Joseph B. Eastman of the Interstate Commerce Commission; Charles D. Mahaffie of the Interstate Commerce Commission; Carl Gray, Vice-chairman of the Missouri Pacific Railway; Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr.; George Harrison, head of the Railway Labor Executives Association; William O. Douglas, Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Political Cartoon by Clifford Berryman

This photograph of a political cartoon by Clifford K. Berryman entitled "First budget surplus in 17 years", depicts President Harry S. Truman and Secretary of the Treasury John Snyder. Truman is saying, "Let's put it in a museum so the citizens can have a look at it." Inscribed by Berryman, "To President Truman and Secretary Snyder with my heartiest thanks to them for doing something that I never expected to see while I lived - A miracle!" Published July 1, 1947 by the Washington Evening Star.

Thanksgiving Political Cartoon

This is a photograph of a political cartoon by Jim Berryman entitled "Pre-Thanksgiving Dream". This was published in November 1946 by the Washington Evening Star. The men depicted in the cartoon are President Harry S. Truman, Attorney General Tom Clark, United Mine Workers Union President John L. Lewis, and Secretary of the Interior Julius Krug.

President Truman poses with Josef Stalin and other participants from the Potsdam Conference

President Harry S. Truman and Josef Stalin on the lawn outside of Soviet Union Prime Minister Stalin's residence during the Potsdam Conference in Potsdam, Germany. The group of men, L to R: Prime Minister Josef Stalin, Charles Bohlen, interpreter for President Truman, V. N. Pavlov, interpreter for Prime Minister Stalin, President Truman, Andrei Gromyko, Soviet Ambassador to the United States, Charles Ross, President Truman's Press Secretary, and Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov. From the album: President's Trip to Potsdam, album number 2