Former President Harry S. Truman prepares to speak at a banquet in honor of Former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. The banquet is a fund raiser at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City. The dinner is $100.00 per plate. CBS radio network will broadcast the event over the radio. Seven potential presidential candidates will be in attendance. From: George S. Zimbel Collection.
This engraved silver tray commemorates the Sam Rayburn Testimonial Dinner held on April 16, 1955, at the National Guard Armory in Washington, D.C. The two-handled serving tray lists the program, and it features the signatures of Harry S. Truman; Braskamp, Bernard; Butler, Paul; Johnson, Lyndon B.; Kenney, W. John; McCormack, John W.; Roosevelt, Eleanor; Stevenson, Adlai. Photographer Vincent A. Finnigan is from Washington, D.C.
President Harry S. Truman (at the head of the table, in civilian clothes) is eating lunch with Floyd Hale and other unidentified Chief Petty Officers aboard the U.S.S. Augusta. President Truman traveled to Germany on board the Augusta for the Potsdam Conference. All others are unidentified.