National security

Shown in the White House Cabinet Room during a meeting of the National Security Council, are from left to right: Averell Harriman, unidentified, Dean Rusk, President Lyndon B. Johnson, Robert McNamara. Others around the table are unidentified. On the far back row from the right: Unidentified, unidentified, James E. Webb, head of National Aeronautics and Space Administration, unidentified, Pierre Salinger. All others are unidentified.

President Harry S. Truman (seated) is signing the National Security Act Amendment of 1949 with guests in the Oval Office. Standing, from left to right: unidentified; Senator Styles Bridges; Congressman Overton Brooks; Congressman Carl T.

Adolf Schaerf, Vice-Chancellor of Austria, visits W. Averell Harriman, Administrator of the United States Mutual Security Agency. There is a bust of Benjamin Franklin in background. From the Department of State Album: "Visit of His Excellency Adolf Schaerf, Vice-Chancellor of Austria, to the United States, March 1-21, 1952."

Sidney W. Souers, head of Central Intelligence Group, is shown walking up the steps of a government building, probably the Old Executive Office Building. The White House is seen in the background.

President Harry S. Truman and two of the "cloak and dagger boys" seated at his desk in the White House. Left to right: President Truman, General Walter Bedell Smith, and James S. Lay, Jr. One of a series of photographs taken by Alfred Wagg for the book "Mr. President", published in 1952, by William Hillman. See Page 63. (Similar to 78-897) From: Papers of William Hillman, "Mr. President" file, Box 2 - Loose Dummy (2 of 2).