Civil service

Portrait of Martin Leonard Friedman at the podium as President of the National Capital Democratic Club (now the National Democratic Club). This photograph was used in Mr. Friedman's oral history interview. During the administration of President Harry S. Truman, Mr. Friedman was a special assistant in the White House, 1950-1953. Donor: Martin Friedman.

Portrait of Wesley McCune, Executive Assistant to the Secretary of Agriculture, 1948-1953, used in his Truman Library Oral History.

President Harry S. Truman signing the Civil Service Retirement Bill at the Little White House at Key West, Florida. See also 92-48. From: Houston Post.

President Harry S. Truman signing the Civil Service Retirement Bill at the Little White House at Key West, Florida submarine base. See also 92-49. From: Houston Post.

Former President Harry S. Truman with Federal Records Centers Chiefs at the Harry S. Truman Library. From left to right: Elmer Lindgard, Emil Pubols, Lewis J. Darter, E. G. Cole, John Hals Shanks, Max Ulery, Steve T. Clark, Gordon Williams, Harry Truman, William D. White, Wayne C. Grover, Charles A. Henderson, Robert Edelstein, Harold F. Elliott, Peter Iacullo, Warren Wilson. Photograph is inscribed by each man above his picture.

The files of all social security account holders. From: Photos used in the 1984 Truman Centennial exhibit. Franklin D. Roosevelt Library Photo Number: NPX-53-227.

Social security workers, location unknown. From: Photos used in the 1984 Truman Centennial Exhibit. This is from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library.

President Lyndon B. Johnson (right) shaking hands with Clarence H. Osthagen. Others are unidentified.

Roswell Gilpatric, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Materiel, 1951; Under Secretary of the Air Force, 1951-53; and Deputy Secretary of Defense, 1961-64.

Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley (left), President Harry S. Truman's personal representative on reparations, being greeted upon his arrival at Atsugi Airfield, Honshu, Japan, by H. D. Maxwell, Special Assistant and Chief of Staff to Ambassador Pauley. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47, the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors.