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Truman taking the oath of office

Harry S. Truman taking the oath of office at the White House after the death of President Roosevelt. From left to right: Frances Perkins, Secretary of Labor; Henry Stimson, Secretary of War; Henry Wallace, Secretary of Commerce; Julius Krug, War Production Board Administrator; James Forrestal, Secretary of the Navy; Claude Wickard, Secretary of Agriculture; Francis McNamee, Department Chairman, War Manpower Commission; Francis Biddle, Attorney General; Harry S.

Truman and Selected Cabinet Members

President Harry S. Truman with selected Cabinet members. Front row, left to right: John Snyder, Dean Acheson, President Harry S. Truman, Fred Vinson, James P. McGranery. Back row, left to right: Clinton Anderson, Tom Clark, Charles Brannan, Louis Johnson, George Marshall, Averell Harriman, Maurice Tobin, J. Howard McGrath, Oscar Chapman. Duplicate is 58-575.

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.