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President and Mrs. Truman departing Washington with Senator Alben W. Barkley

Left to right: Senator Alben Barkley, Bess Truman, and President Harry S. Truman. President Truman and Mrs. Truman are leaving Washington for a weekend at their home in Independence, Missouri. Senator Alben W. Barkley, Kentucky, Senate Majority Leader, was in the party and will leave the plane at Paducah, Kentucky, where he is scheduled to speak this weekend. The President and Mrs. Truman and the Senator are shown at Washington National Airport prior to boarding their plane. From: Beth Gore.

Trumans and others at a Theta Sigma Phi dinner

Former President Harry S. Truman and wife Bess pose for a photo with four members of Theta Sigma Phi on the occasion of a Matrix Dinner held at the Muehlebach Hotel, Kansas City, Missouri. Left to right are: Mr. Truman, Mrs. W.L.C. Palmer, Mrs. Georgia Neese Clark (former U.S. Treasurer), Mrs. Gordon McKenzie, Mrs. Willie Snow Ethridge (speaker from Louisville, Kentucky), and Bess Truman. From: Mrs. W.L.C. Palmer

Truman family and Captain Ehman leaving the S.S. President Cleveland

Upon arrival in San Francisco, California, after a month's vacation in Hawaii, former President Harry S. Truman, escorted by Captain Hobart J. Ehman (right), walks down the deck of the liner S.S. President Cleveland in preparation for departure from the ship. Behind Mr. Truman, on his right, Bess and Margaret Truman descend a flight of stairs to join him. (See 2002-463 through 469.) (Original negative included.) From: Bayard C. Rucker.