Legislation

President Harry S. Truman (seated) signs Flood Control and Navigation Bills. With him are(standing, from left to right): Senator Hugh B. Mitchell, Representative John E. Rankin, and Senator Warren G. Magnuson.

President Harry S. Truman (seated) holds up the OPA price control bill at his desk. Paul Porter (left) and a group of unidentified OPA Regional Directors are also present.

President Truman, seated, signed the National School Lunch Act, which authorizes the U.S. Department of Agriculture to assume half the expenses for school lunches in any state assuming the other half. Thus, for the first time, this program, which has run for 11 years on a year-to-year basis with no financial participation by the states, becomes a permanent part of the Department's activities. Standing left to right: Clinton P. Anderson, Secretary of Agriculture; Rep. Malcolm C. Tarver, Georgia, member of House Appropriations Committee; Sen. Richard B.

President Harry S. Truman signing the National Housing Act of 1949. Looking on, from left to right, are: Senator Burnet Maybank, Senator Ralph Flanders, Senator John Sparkman, and Housing Administrator Raymond Foley.

President Harry S. Truman signing the Armed Forces Unification Bill with guests. From left to right, Senator Richard B. Russell, unidentified admiral, General Omar Nelson Bradley, Louis A. Johnson, General Hoyt Sanford Vandenberg, Senator Styles Bridges, unidentified male, unidentified male, Fred M. Vinson, Stuart Symington, Stephen T. Early, and John W. Snyder.

Memories of Wage Hearings composite photo postcard. Inscribed on the back: "With my compliments and best wishes for a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Chas. McKay".

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.