Legislators

Former President Harry S. Truman, Bess Truman and others stand before their chairs at the beginning of the dedication of the Sam Rayburn Library in Bonham, Texas. Of those who can be identified are several unidentified people, Lady Bird Johnson, Senator Lyndon Johnson, Harry S. Truman, Bess Truman, and Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn, and two unidentified people. From: Sam Rayburn.

Allan Sproul, right, President of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, today charged before the House-Senate Economic Committee that the Federal Reserve Board was proposing "clumsy methods" for dealing with monetary inflation. Sproul is shown here with Senator Robert A. Taft, Co-chairman of the committee. From: Beth Gore.

Assistant Postmaster General Paul C. Aiken (third from right), Senator Richard M. Nixon (second from right) and unidentified others at the dedication of the Sears Terminal in Los Angeles.

Secretary of State Dean Acheson, right, appears before the Senate Armed Services Committee to give a "detailed" report on the ransoming of four American fliers forced down in Hungary last November. With him are Senators Leverett Saltonstall (left) and Wayne Morse.

Chatting aboard the liner Independence as it docks in New York, are Left to Right: Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder, Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Secretary of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan and Senator Alexander Wiley (R. Wisc.). After debarking Secretary Acheson left at once for Washington to give President Truman a report of his talks in Europe.

President Harry S. Truman is shown signing the Mutual Security Act, a bill authorizing $7,483,000,000 in Arms and Economic Aid to Anti-Communist Nations in nearly all parts of the world. Around the President, Left to Right: Secretary of State Dean Acheson; William C. Foster, Deputy Secretary of Defense; Rep. James P. Richards (D.S.C.); Sen. Theodore Green (R.R.I.); and Sen. Alexander Wiley (R. Wisc.)

Secretary of State Dean Acheson walks down the steps of the Senate Office Building after the joint Senate Armed Services Foreign Relations Committee investigating the MacArthur dismissal recessed for lunch.

Secretary of State Dean Acheson returned to the stand for the fourth day before the Senate Committee investigating the MacArthur dismissal. See also 96-1120.

Secretary of State Dean Acheson makes his long-awaited appearance before the Senate MacArthur investigation to face the challenge of hostile Republicans to disclose a "hotter than a firecracker" State Department on Formosa.

Secretary of State Dean Acheson, testifying before a Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committee, urges the United States to rush more ground troops to Europe "now"--to prevent war or assure Allied victory if war comes.