Legislators

Former President Harry S. Truman (back to camera) chats with (obscured man), Minnesota Senator Hubert H. Humphrey, and California Governor Edmund G. "Pat" Brown. They are at a meeting of the National Democratic Club in New York City at the Waldorf-Astoria. From: George S. Zimbel Collection. From: George S. Zimbel Collection.

Former President Harry S. Truman (back to camera) at a National Democratic Club meeting in New York City. In this photo the former President speaks in a small group with Senator Hubert Humphrey, and Edmund G. "Pat" Brown, Governor of California. From: George S. Zimbel Collection. From: George S. Zimbel Collection.

A presentation is made of a small cotton mattress to Congressman Malcolm Tarver. From left to right stands Ivy W. Duggan, Marvin Jones, Malcom Tarver, and Grover Hill. The men in the background are unidentified.

Ivy Duggan sits with others at the National 4-H Breakfast at the Mayflower Hotel, Washington, D.C. Seated from the left to right: Ivy W. Duggan, Farm Credit Administration; Charles Dana Bennett, for American Agriculture; William A. Davis Jr., of Valdosta, Georgia, national winner in 4-H leadership; Senator Walter F. George; Rhonwyn Lowry, 4-H Fellow from Georgia; Congressman E. L. Forrester; Adrian Short, national winner in 4-H citizenship; and Walter S. Brown, Associate Director of Extension, Georgia. Others are unidentified.

From left to right, Ivy W. Duggan, Congressman William Poage, and Grover Hill converse while evaluating the AAA Cotton Mattress Program.

Major General Robert Landry (left) and Senator Barry Goldwater (right) attend closing exercises of the National Resources Conference in Tucson, Arizona.

Missouri Senator and former Secretary of the Air Force Stuart Symington (right) and Gill Robb Wilson (left) attend the Air Force Association Convention in New Orleans, Louisiana.

President Harry S. Truman receives a pair of cowboy boots made by Tony Lama from members of the House of Representatives and the Chamber of Commerce of El Paso, Texas. From left to right: Representative Ken Regan, President Truman, Representative George H. Mahon, Representative W. R. Poage and Representative Ed Gossett.

President Harry S. Truman (seated) signs the Foreign Assistance Act which would send $6,098,000,000 around the world to combat Communism. This bill created the European Recovery Program to implement the Marshall Plan. Standing behind President Truman from left to right are: Senator Arthur Vanderburg, Secretary of the Treasury John Snyder, Representative Charles Eaton, Senator Tom Connally, Secretary of the Interior Julius Krug, (mostly obscured), Speaker of the House Joseph Martin, Representative Sol Bloom, and Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson (behind Bloom, mostly obscured).

President Harry S. Truman (seated) signs the Smith-Mundt Bill, also known as the "Voice of America Bill,' which authorizes foreign informational activities, including radio broadcasts to Soviet Russia and other countries. Standing, from left to right; Senator H. Alexander Smith; Dr. Walter Lemon, President of the World Wide Broadcasting Foundation; Howland H. Sargent; Representative Karl E. Mundt; and Under Secretary of State Robert Lovett.