Dinners and dining

Former President Harry S. Truman speaks at a podium during the Truman Library, Inc. fundraising dinner at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles, California.

View of a dinner meeting identified as the thirteenth annual convention dinner of the Interstate Conference of Employment Security Agencies held in New York City at the Hotel Roosevelt on September 26-29, 1949. Robert C. Goodwin of the Labor Department's Bureau of Employment Security is seated at the head table seventh from the right. Original photo is in oversize file.

President Gerald Ford (third from left on right side of the table) talks with newspaper executives at the White House. E. Clifton Daniel, Jr. is second from left on the left hand side of the table. Other men and the waiter are unidentified. Note on back of photograph reads: "Everybody in the family dining room of the White House heard President Ford mention CIA assassinations. Was it off the record or on? I said "off" (mine is the whitest head there). The publisher of The New York Times, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger (obscured by the president), agreed.

Former President Harry. S. Truman (left) sits with his daughter Margaret Truman Daniel (center) while her husband, E. Clifton Daniel, Jr. leans in to talk to Mr. Truman. Note on the back of the photograph reads: "This photograph of President Truman, my wife and myself was taken at the Waldorf-Astoria by the New York Daily News. It was displayed on the bulletin board at the Daily News with the caption, 'You may be a good newspaperman, but you are a lousy waiter.' Actually, I was just asking, 'Do you want another drink before dinner?' " Part of a group of photographs belonging to E.

Retired Major General Robert Landry, fourth from left, attends a dinner. All others pictured are unknown.

Two unidentified military officers and an unidentified woman sit on the floor around a small table eating and drinking a bottle of champagne. Location unknown.

From left to right, Lieutenant General Emmett O'Donnell, Mr. Francis, and Major General Robert Landry attend a banquet at Bolling Air Force Base.

Donald R. Heath, standing at the head table, at a dinner for the Melby Erskine Mission delegation during their visit to Haiphong, Vietnam. Others are unidentified. Reportage No. T-579, Photo No. 35.

This photograph was part of a small scrapbook that contained a total of 24 photographs. It is labeled "Farewell dinner - May 27, 1957, Harrisburg, Pa., for Allen Sulcowe, Director, Pennsylvania Bureau of Employment Security." Those in view are not identified. Sulcowe became Director of the Pennsylvania State Employment Service in 1942, serving until his appointment as Executive Director of the Bureau of Employment Services in 1955. He was appointed First Executive Deputy Secretary of Revenue by Pennsylvania Governor George Leader in 1957, and acting Secretary of Revenue in 1958.

This photograph was part of a small scrapbook that contained a total of 24 photographs. It is labeled "Farewell dinner - May 27, 1957, Harrisburg, Pa., for Allen Sulcowe, Director, Pennsylvania Bureau of Employment Security." Those in view are not identified. Sulcowe became Director of the Pennsylvania State Employment Service in 1942, serving until his appointment as Executive Director of the Bureau of Employment Services in 1955. He was appointed First Executive Deputy Secretary of Revenue by Pennsylvania Governor George Leader in 1957, and acting Secretary of Revenue in 1958.