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Truman Gives a Press Conference While on Vacation at Key West

President Harry S. Truman (standing, center foreground) gives a press conference in the garden of the Little White House while on vacation in Key West, Florida. Reporters and photographers who are gathered in front of him are unidentified. Standing behind Truman are, from left to right: Captain Robert Dennison; Washington State Governor Mon Wallgren; Admiral William Leahy; General Harry Vaughan; Secretary of the Air Force Stuart Symington; and Special Counsel Clark Clifford.

Truman Walks at the Key West Naval Air Station

President Harry S. Truman (far left with cane) walks at the Naval Air Station in Key West, Florida, accompanied by (from left to right) Senator and Vice President-elect Alben Barkley, Leslie Biffle, Jonathan Daniels, Admiral William D. Leahy, William J. Bray, and an unidentified naval officer (mostly obscured by Leahy). President Truman and his advisors were in Key West for a post-election vacation.