Ex-presidents

Former President Harry S. Truman with shovel at the ground breaking ceremony for the Harry S. Truman Library, at Slover Park in Independence, Missouri. Bess Truman can be seen in the background. Margaret Truman (in hat) has her head turned away. From the album "Official Photographs Missouri State Highway Commission, Jefferson City, Missouri."

Harry S. Truman and Tom Evans (at left) at the groundbreaking ceremony for the Harry S. Truman Library in Slover Park, Independence, Missouri. From the album "Official Photographs Missouri State Highway Commission, Jefferson City, Missouri."

Harry S. Truman at the podium at the Harry S. Truman Library ground breaking ceremony at Slover Park in Independence, Missouri. From the album "Official Photographs Missouri State Highway Commission, Jefferson City, Missouri."

Left to right: Tom Evans, Randall Jessee, Harry S. Truman, Msgr. L. Curtis Tiernan and unidentified man. They are at the ground breaking ceremony at Slover Park in Independence, Missouri, for the Harry S. Truman Library. From the album "Official Photographs Missouri State Highway Commission, Jefferson City, Missouri."

Left to right: Tom Evans, Harry Jobes, Harry S. Truman, and Msgr. L. Curtis Tiernan. They are at the ground breaking ceremony for the Harry S. Truman Library, at Slover Park in Independence, Missouri. From the album "Official Photographs Missouri State Highway Commission, Jefferson City, Missouri."

From left to right, former President Harry S. Truman, Mrs. Bess W. Truman, Margaret Truman, and Mary Jane Truman sit on a platform prior to the groundbreaking ceremonies for the Harry S. Truman Library. All others unidentified.

From left to right in the front row, former President Harry S. Truman, Mrs. Bess Truman, Margaret Truman, and Mary Jane Truman stand for the National Anthem prior to the groundbreaking ceremonies for the Harry S. Truman Library. All others unidentified.

Left to right: former President Harry S. Truman, Bess Truman, and Margaret Truman at the ground breaking ceremony for the Harry S. Truman Library. They are in Slover Park in Independence, Missouri. From the album "Official Photographs Missouri State Highway Commission, Jefferson City, Missouri."

Former President Harry S. Truman speaks at the podium during the ground breaking ceremonies for the Harry S. Truman Library. All others unidentified.

Former President Harry S. Truman (left) has a warm handshake for Strom Thurmond, former governor of South Carolina and Dixiecrat candidate for President in 1948, as the two met in a receiving line at the Reserve Officer's Association convention dinner in Philadelphia tonight. When questioned later on what words passed between them, Thurmond said it was just a "greeting of one reserve officer to another." Both Truman and Thurmond are colonels in the U.S. Army. In center is Capt. Robert G. Burke, USNR, national president of the Reserve Officer's Association. From: Houston Post.