Legislation

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.

U.S. Secretary of Labor Arthur Goldberg is standing on the right behind a podium addressing state administrators in connection to state agreements 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 left 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 9:30am in Conference Room A and B.

Maurice Latta (left) points at President Harry Truman's signature as Matthew Connelly (right) holds the bill that authorized emergency relief to France, Italy, and Austria.

Group banquet scene identified on front of photo as the banquet associated with the 5th annual Conference of Labor Legislation held at the Mayflower Hotel [Washington, D.C.] on November 15, 1938. No identification of individuals in view.

President Harry S. Truman (sitting) signs the extension of the lend-lease act at the White House as Chief of Foreign Economic Administration Leo Crowley (left) and Secretary of State Edward Stettinius (right) watch. From the scrapbooks of Matt Connelly, Vol. 1.