National security

President Harry S. Truman's Address to the Civil Defense Conference

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President Harry S. Truman's address to the Civil Defense Conference at the Statler Hotel, Washington D.C. The President spoke at 10:30 p.m. Millard Caldwell, Civil Defense Administrator and former Governor of Florida, gives opening remarks. The address was carried on a nationwide broadcast. Recorded by: ABC. From: Archives of University of Missouri-Columbia.

President Truman's Address at Symphony Hall in Boston

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President Harry S. Truman's address at Symphony Hall, Boston, MA, 9:30 p.m. He had been campaigning on behalf of the Adlai Stevenson presidential campaign. In this speech President Truman refers to Senator Joseph McCarthy and the subject of national security and hysteria in America. In his opening remarks he referred to Governor Paul A. Dever of Massachusetts and Representative John W. McCormack of Massachusetts, chairman of the occasion. Later he referred to Representative John F. Kennedy, Democratic candidate for Senator, Frederick C. Hailer, Thomas P. O'Neill, and David J.

President Johnson meeting with National Security Council

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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 Signing National Security Act Amendment of 1949

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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 Scharf Meets With Averell Harriman

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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 walking up the steps of a government building

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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 Truman and two of the "cloak and dagger boys" (Smith and Lay)

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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).

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