Legislators

At the train station in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Senator Harry S. Truman (in light colored hat), with two unidentified members of the Truman Committee, looks over his schedule. Senator Truman was in Ypsilanti, Michigan, for an inspection of the Ford Motor Company Willow Run Bomber Plant. From: Roy T. Romine

Congress today opened hearings on President Truman's program to aid Greece and Turkey. Acting Secretary of State Dean Acheson, left, and Rep. Charles A. Eaton, New Jersey, right, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, are shown looking at the location of distressed foreign countries on a huge globe in the committee room. From: Beth Gore

Secretary of State Dean Acheson today told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee what progress he is making in formulating a new policy on China. Acheson, center, is shown with Senator Tom Connally, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Ambassador-at-Large Philip Jessup, left, who heads a three-man special committee on China Policy. From: Beth Gore

Secretary of State Dean Acheson today told a Joint Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and Arms Aid that the U.S. is "open to attack" as never before because Western Europe's defenses are a "soft shell", inviting Soviet aggression. From: Beth Gore

Secretary of State Dean Acheson today reported to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the Big Four Meeting in Paris. In a two hour meeting with members of the Committee, the Secretary warned that the end of the cold war is not yet in sight. He further urged the early ratification of the North Atlantic Pact. Mr. Acheson is shown here (left) with Senator Tom Connally, chairman of the Committee. From: Beth Gore

Secretary of State Acheson today opened testimony on the 12-Nation Anti-Aggression Pact before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee with a plea for early ratification of the Pact. The Treaty cannot go into effect until it is ratified by the original seven negotiating nations. Ratification in the United States requires a two-thirds vote of the Senate. Secretary Acheson is shown as he testified today. From: Beth Gore

Dean Acheson testifying before Congress. Photo is airbrushed. Others are unidentified. From: Beth Gore

Senator and Vice-Presidential nominee Harry S. Truman chats with friends at the Coronado Hotel in St. Louis, Missouri, at a dinner given by the Knights of the Cauliflower Ear, an organization of sports fans, for Harry S. Truman and Robert E. Hannegan, chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Front row, left to right are: Cecil Engel, Mr. Truman, an unidentified serviceman, and Bernard Dickmann. From: David Meyer (nephew of Cecil Engel).

Former President Harry S. Truman (in center of photo) arrives for a press conference at the Sherman House Hotel, Chicago, Illinois, as Sen. Barry Goldwater (right) was emerging from one. Both appeared as speakers at the grand banquet of the 40th annual convention of the American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association (AHEPA). The head of AHEPA is on Truman's left, but his name is not known. (original negative) (See 68-1013.) From: Credit John McDonough

President Harry S. Truman sits at his desk in the Oval Office and affixes his signature to the National Housing Bill, Public Law 171. Those who can be identified are, left to right, Senator Burnet Maybank (third from left, with head turned), Senator Ralph Flanders (fourth from left), Senator John Sparkman (fifth from left), and Housing Administrator Raymond Foley (sixth from left). (See 78-614 and 66-1919.) From: Nathaniel S. Keith