Political leadership

New York Governor-elect Averell Harriman, former President Harry S. Truman and Democratic National Committee Chairman, Paul M. Butler, left to right, at the Muehlebach Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri. (See also 96-815) From: Copied from original photographs loaned to the library by Harry Barth. Originals were returned to Mr. Barth.

Gael Sullivan; Executive Director of the Democratic National Committee, as he called at the White House today. From: Beth Gore.

Gael Sullivan, who recently resigned as Second Assistant Postmaster General to accept an appointment as Executive Director of the Democratic National Committee, is shown as he assumed his new post today. From: Beth Gore.

Portrait photograph of B. Carroll Reece, Chairman of the Republican National Committee. From: Beth Gore.

Portrait photograph of B. Carroll Reece, Chairman of the Republican National Committee. From: Beth Gore.

Pennsylvania Democrats attend a conference sponsored by Robert E. Hannegan, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, at the Biltmore Hotel in Philadelphia, prior to the 28th Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois. Left to right are: Ruth Grigg Horting, State Vice Chairman; David L. Lawrence, National Committeeman and State Chairman; Emma Guffey Miller, National Committeewoman; and Robert E. Hannegan.

President Harry S. Truman, Chicago Mayor Martin H. Kennelly (center), and Frank McKinney (right), Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, are shown in the back seat of an automobile. The President, having just arrived at Midway Airport, was in Chicago to attend the 1952 Democratic National Convention. Shaking hands with the President is Gary Jacobsen, a young boy, who caught the President's eye and was motioned to "come up to the car." (See 70-129 thru 132.) From: Gary Jacobsen.

Head-and-shoulders portrait of India Edwards, Associate Director of the Democratic National Committee From: India Edwards

Conference of Democratic National Committee leaders at their headquarters in Washington, D. C. At left is Senator J. Howard McGrath, committee chairman. With him are Joseph L. Blythe, treasurer, and Mrs. India Edwards, director of the women's division.

Representatives of the Foreign Language Press are shown at a press conference at the Advertising Club, New York City. Left to right (seated) are: Michel Cieplinski; Felix Paplowski of Polish Everybody's Daily; Mrs. Angela Parisi, Vice Chairman, New York Democratic State Committee; Mrs. India Edwards, Vice Chairman, Democratic National Committee; Mrs. Anna Oberwager, German Press; Miss Maria Luisa Falbo, Il Progresso Italo-Americano; Mrs. Olga Hochstadter of Staats Zeitung und Herold; Miss Barbara Dauys of the Lithuanian Press; and Miss Mary Kizis of the Lithuanian Information Office.