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Vice President John Nance Garner (left) showing two Jesse James revolvers to Senator Harry S. Truman (right).

Senator Harry S. Truman (right) on a deer hunting trip in Pennsylvania with former Senator F. Ryan Duffy (left) of Wisconsin.

Portrait of Carl A. Hatch, U. S. Senator, member of the Special Committee of U. S. Senate investigating the National Defense Program (Truman Committee). This is one of three portraits which had not been received in time to include them with those of other members of the Senate War Investigating Committee contained in a book left at the Truman Library by Hugh Fulton in July, 1957. The portrait is autographed as follows: To the Hon. Harry S. Truman, Chairman of the Wartime committee best known as the "Truman Committee." With affectionate regards, Carl A. Hatch, Member.

From left to right: Chief Justice Earl Warren, former President Herbert Hoover, former First Lady Bess Wallace Truman, Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn, and unidentified others at the dedication of the Harry S. Truman Library.

Grandstand at the dedication of the Harry S. Truman Library. In the front row are: two unidentified, Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn, Mrs. Bess Wallace Truman, former President Herbert Hoover, former President Truman, and Basil O'Connor. Others are unidentified.

President Truman in the oval office signed into law the controversial Public Housing and Slum-Clearance Bill--the first of his so-called "Fair Deal" measures to be approved by Congress. Looking on as the Chief Executive affixed his signature, left to right: Senator Burnet R. Maybank (with his head turned) (D.S.C.); Senator Ralph E. Flanders (R. Vt.); Senator John J. Sparkman (D. Ala); Raymond M. Foley, Federal Housing Administrator; Brent Spence (D. Ky.); and James E. Carey, Secretary-Treasurer of the CIO. The other men are unidentified. (See also 66-2306.)

Mize Peters (with hand extended) and Senator Stuart Symington (foreground), with others at a gathering.

Cartoon, entitled "The voice of experience," by Newton Pratt, depicting former President Harry S. Truman, General Douglas MacArthur, and Senator Robert Taft.

Cartoon by Daniel R. Fitzpatrick, entitled "Senator Truman: Halt! Who goes there?", relating to Senator Harry S. Truman's defense investigating committee.

Missouri Senator Harry S. Truman, Democratic Vice Presidential candidate, speaking in Peoria, Illinois. Senator Truman is denying the charges that started in 1922 that he was a former member of the Ku Klux Klan.