Cabinet officers

President Harry S. Truman (right front), Mrs. Bess Truman, and cabinet members leave the Capitol today after the President addressed a Joint Session of the House and Senate. Left to Right: Front, Secretary of State George Marshall; Bess Truman; Secretary of the Treasury John Snyder; and the President. Back: Postmaster General Robert Hannegan; Secretary of Agriculture Clinton Anderson; Attorney General Tom Clark; and Charles Ross, Press Secretary to the President. From: Houston Post.

President Harry S. Truman (center) poses with Secretary of Labor Lewis B. Schwellenbach (left) and Frieda Miller, Director of the Women's Bureau of the Department of Labor, today at the opening of a conference of women leaders. The meeting commemorates the 100th anniversary of the movement for women's rights. From: Houston Post.

President Harry S. Truman talks with Secretary of State George Marshall (left) and Secretary of Defense James Forrestal (right) as they leave the White House. From: Houston Post.

President Harry S. Truman (center) studies national food savings plan as he is surrounded by advisors at Citizens Food Committee meeting at White House today. Left to Right: Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson; Secretary of Commerce W. Averell Harriman; Acting Secretary of State Robert Lovett; and Charles Luckman, Citizens Committee Chairman. From: Houston Post.

President Harry S. Truman signs an executive order providing for the transfer of 29 passenger and cargo vessels to Italy. Onlookers are, left to right: Secretary of State, George Marshall; Admiral Louis E. Denfeld, Chief of Naval Operations; Attorney General Tom Clark; and Italian Ambassador Alberto Tarchiani. From: Houston Post.

At the White House, President Harry S. Truman signs the Foreign Aid Bill. Looking on from left to right are Senator Arthur Vandenberg, Secretary of Interior Julius Krug, House Speaker Joseph W. Martin, Representative Sol Bloom, and (partially hidden at right) Secretary of Agriculture Clinton Anderson. From: Houston Post.

President Harry S. Truman (seated center) is flanked by members of a 12-man commission engaged in a study to increase the efficiency of the Executive Branch of the government. Front, L to R: George H. Mead, Dayton, Ohio; former President Herbert Hoover; President Truman; Joseph P. Kennedy; and Senator John J. McClellan (D-Arkansas). Rear, L to R: Representative Clarence J. Brown (R-O); Secretary of Defense James V. Forrestal; Arthur S. Flemming, Civil Service Commission; Secretary of State Dean Acheson; James Rowe; and Representative Carter Manasco (D-Alabama). From: Houston Post.

U.S. Secretary of the Navy Francis P. Matthews addresses the workers of the Boston Naval Shipyard during an inspection visit. The area is part of the First Naval District.

Secretary of the U.S. Navy Francis P. Matthews is standing on the platform at the podium and addressing United States Naval Shipyard workers in Boston, Massachusetts. Various Naval officers share the platform with him. Secretary Matthews is on an inspection visit of the First Naval District.

Secretary of the U.S. Navy Francis P. Matthews is shown inspecting the historic frigate the USS Constitution during a visit to the Boston Naval Shipyard located in the First Naval District. Sailors are shown in salute as Secretary Matthews passes by.