Legislation

President Harry S. Truman (seated) is signing the National Security Act Amendment of 1949 with guests in the Oval Office. Standing, from left to right: unidentified; Senator Styles Bridges; Congressman Overton Brooks; Congressman Carl T.

President Harry S. Truman signing S.J. Res. 72, which gives benefits to Korean war veterans, except the GI Bill of Rights. The Chief Executive asked Congress for the bill after hearing that a Veterans Administration hospital in Arizona had refused to admit a Korean War veteran because he had not served in an "official" war.

This is a photograph of a political cartoon by Jim Berryman entitled "Taft-Hartley Act." It depicts President Harry S. Truman as Don Quixote with the windmill being the Taft-Hartley Act. Published July 31, 1947 by the Washington Evening Star.

President Harry S. Truman signs the Fair Labor Standards Act, raising minimum wages to seventy-five cents an hour, with labor and government officials on hand for the ceremony in the White House. Looking on are (top left) Solicitor of the Labor Department William S. Tyson, (leaning over the president's right shoulder) Secretary of Labor Maurice Tobin, (leaning over the president's left shoulder) President of the American Federation of Labor William Green, and (far right) President of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Jacob S. Potofsky.

President Lyndon B. Johnson (right) signs legislation that designates October 24 of every year as United Nations Day. President Johnson signed this legislation in the home of former President Harry S. Truman (left) in Independence, Missouri.

Labor Department official Robert C. Goodwin, at the time Associate Manpower Administrator for Unemployment Insurance (1969-1974), is shown on the left shaking hands with an unidentified man. Goodwin is being presented a Distinguished Achievement Award. According to Goodwin's appointment book he received the award in part for his work on the Unemployment Insurance bill which represented a significant advance in unemployment insurance. See 2012-2952 for photo of signing of the bill.

President Harry S. Truman (right) signs a message attached to a presidential veto of a tax bill on the Presidential yacht USS Williamsburg while en route to Williamsburg, Virginia. From left to right: Press Secretary Charles Ross, William J. Hopkins, and Truman.

President Harry S. Truman (seated) signs the Foreign Assistance Act which would send $6,098,000,000 around the world to combat Communism. This bill created the European Recovery Program to implement the Marshall Plan. Standing behind President Truman from left to right are: Senator Arthur Vanderburg, Secretary of the Treasury John Snyder, Representative Charles Eaton, Senator Tom Connally, Secretary of the Interior Julius Krug, (mostly obscured), Speaker of the House Joseph Martin, Representative Sol Bloom, and Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson (behind Bloom, mostly obscured).

President Harry S. Truman (seated) signs the Smith-Mundt Bill, also known as the "Voice of America Bill,' which authorizes foreign informational activities, including radio broadcasts to Soviet Russia and other countries. Standing, from left to right; Senator H. Alexander Smith; Dr. Walter Lemon, President of the World Wide Broadcasting Foundation; Howland H. Sargent; Representative Karl E. Mundt; and Under Secretary of State Robert Lovett.

U.S. Secretary of Labor Arthur Goldberg is sitting on the left seen signing the last state agreement connected with the (TEUC) Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation Act legislation. This law provided additional unemployment insurance payments for jobless workers who had exhausted their benefits. Seated beside him on the right is Robert C. Goodwin, Director of the Labor Department's Bureau of Employment Security. According to Goodwin's appointment book this event took place at 11:30am in Conference Room B.