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From left to right, Chief Justice Fred Vinson, Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn, President Harry S. Truman, and Secretary of State James Byrnes. They are escorting Secretary Byrnes to the airport to leave for the Paris Peace Conference.

President Harry S. Truman receives gift from natives of the Bikini Atoll. From left to right: Senator Carl A. Hatch, President Truman, Vice Admiral William H. P. Blandy, and Major General W.E. Kepner.

President Harry S. Truman (left) signs Terminal Leave Bill while Representative Edith Nourse Rogers looks on.

President Harry S. Truman signs Congressional Streamline Bill. Also present are (from left to right): Representative Everett M. Dirksen, Representative A. S. Mike Monroney, Senator Robert M. La Follette, Jr., Representative E. E. Cox, and Senator Richard B. Russell.

President Harry S. Truman (right) speaks with Secretary of State James F. Byrnes (left) and Senator Arthur Vandenberg (center) on an airport tarmac. A crowd of unidentified men and women stands in the background.

President Harry S. Truman signs the British Loan Agreement in the presence of the Rt. Honorable Lord Inverchapel, British Ambassador to the United States and several others. From left to right: unidentified, Chief Justice Fred Vinson, Secretary of State James Byrnes, Lord Inverchapel, Sam Rayburn, and unidentified (with Truman in the foreground).

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 is shown with two Democratic Senators. From left to right: Senator Joseph F. Guffey, President Truman, Senator Francis J. Myers, and John Stanley Rice, Democratic Nominee for Governor of Pennsylvania.

President Harry S. Truman presenting pens used to sign a bill to give veterans the highest priority for surplus purchases. The group around Truman include Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney (D-WY), Lt. General Edmund S. Gregory, Senator Burnet R. Maybank (D-SC), Mrs. Edith Nourse Rogers (R-MA), and Representative Carter Manasco (D-AL).

President Harry S. Truman attending a dinner sponsored by the Forty-Eight State Wing Command of the Civil Aeronautic Patrol at the Statler Hotel in Washington. He is sitting with several officers at a long table. (L-R) Major General Fred L. Anderson; Assistant Secretary of War for Air Stuart Symington; President Truman; Colonel Earl Johnson; Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn; General Carl Spaatz; and Brigadier General Bill Hall.