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President Harry S. Truman in Conference on the USS Williamsburg

President Harry S. Truman meets with a delegation of officials from Great Britain on board the presidential yacht, the USS Williamsburg. Standing, from left to right: Ambassador Walter S. Gifford, General Omar Nelson Bradley, Sir Oliver Franks, Lord F. A. Cherwell, Lord Hastings Ismay, and W. Averell Harriman. Seated, from left to right: Sir Anthony Eden, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, President Truman, Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder, and Secretary of Defense Robert A. Lovett.

President Truman and his Cabinet, 1948

President Harry S. Truman poses with his Cabinet seated around a table in the Cabinet Room, 1948. From left to right: Secretary of the Interior Julius A. Krug; Secretary of Commerce W. Averell Harriman; Federal Works Administrator Philip B. Fleming; Assistant to the President John R. Steelman; Secretary of Labor Lewis B. Schwellenbach; Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson; Postmaster General Jesse M. Donaldson; Secretary of Defense James V. Forrestal; Secretary of State George C. Marshall, President Truman; Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder; and Attorney General Tom C. Clark.

Last meeting of the Potsdam Conference

Last meeting of the Potsdam Conference in Potsdam, Germany. President Harry S. Truman is on the right, opposite the United States flag on the table. Seated to the right of President Truman are Secretary of State James Byrnes, Admiral William Leahy, and Soviet Ambassador to the United States Andrei Gromyko. Soviet Prime Minister Josef Stalin is at the top, in the white uniform. Seated on the left of Stalin is Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov. British Prime Minister Clement Attlee is seated in the left corner, opposite the British flag on the table.

President Harry S. Truman and Joseph Stalin at Potsdam

Harry S. Truman and Joseph Stalin meeting at Potsdam. From left to right, row 1 : Joseph Stalin, Harry S. Truman, Soviet Ambassador Andrei Gromyko, Secretary of State James Byrnes, and Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov. Second row: General Harry Vaughan, interpreter Charles Bohlen, interpreter V. N. Pavlov (mostly obscured by Truman), Captain James K. Vardaman, and Charles Ross (partially obscured).