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From left to right, President Harry S. Truman, George Harrison, Chairman of the American Federation of Labor Committee for the Election of President Truman, and J. Howard McGrath, Democratic National Committee Chairman, in the oval office. See photo 76-269. Donor: Dorothy Girton Used by Democratic Digest

Harry S. Truman is addressing the 80th Congress. Senator Arthur Vandenberg is seated behind the microphones at left, Speaker of the House Joseph Martin is seated at right. Donor: Dorothy Girton. Used by Democratic Digest.

President Truman addressing the 81st Congress on the State of the Nation, the first meeting in the renovated House of Representatives. Donor: Dorothy Girton. Used by Democratic Digest.

Seated, in the oval office, looking at a document are, left to right, President Harry S. Truman, Congressman John W. McCormack (standing), Senator Scott Lucas, and Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn. Donor: Dorothy Girton. Used by Democratic Digest.

Harry S. Truman and Alben Barkley have turned from a microphone and are walking toward a doorway. Barkley is on Truman's left with his back to the camera. Others in photo are unidentified. Donor: Dorothy Girton.

President Truman, seated, signed the National School Lunch Act, which authorizes the U.S. Department of Agriculture to assume half the expenses for school lunches in any state assuming the other half. Thus, for the first time, this program, which has run for 11 years on a year-to-year basis with no financial participation by the states, becomes a permanent part of the Department's activities. Standing left to right: Clinton P. Anderson, Secretary of Agriculture; Rep. Malcolm C. Tarver, Georgia, member of House Appropriations Committee; Sen. Richard B.

Harry S. Truman at dinner with the following people: standing, left to right: William M. Boyle, Lyndon B. Johnson, Clinton P. Anderson, John McCormack, Percy Priest; seated, left to right is Alben Barkley, Harry S. Truman, Sam Rayburn, and Ernest McFarland. Donor: Dorothy Girton. Used by Democratic Digest.

Harry S. Truman is shaking hands with William Boyle, on Truman's right, and J. Howard McGrath, on Truman's left. Donor: Dorothy Girton.

President Harry S. Truman is seated at his Oval Office desk with New York State Democratic officials and college students who completed internships with the Democratic State Committee of New York. Standing, from left to right: Dr. Josephine M. Pisani, Professor of Political Science, Queens College; Paul Fitzpatrick, Chairman, New York State Democratic Committee; Donald Bowes; Donald M. Clark; Joyce Martin, Assistant Research Director, New York State Democratic Committee; Dorothy Hayes; Ira Harkavy; John Hart, Jr.; Representative Walter Lynch.

President Harry S. Truman is speaking at a Jefferson-Jackson banquet in Washington, D. C. Left to right: Mrs. Bess Truman, Wilson W. Wyatt (Chairman of the dinner), President Truman, an unidentified man, Alben W. Barkley, singer Helen Jepson, and J. Howard McGrath. Donor: Dorothy Girton. Used by Democratic Digest.