Presidential advisors

Portrait of Leon Keyserling, used in the program for the 1979 Conference, sponsored by the Truman Library Institute. Conference: "The Economic Policies of the Truman Administration."

Admiral Robert L. Dennison, Graduate of U.S. Naval Academy, 1923; Assistant Chief of Naval Operations, 1945-47; Commander of the U.S.S. Missouri, 1947-48; Naval Aide to President Harry S. Truman, 1948-53; Commander in Chief of the Atlantic Command, Commander of the Atlantic Fleet, and Supreme Allied Commander, Atlantic, 1960-63. Printed outside border of photo: "Rear Admiral Robert Lee Dennison, U. S. N. January 1948 to January 1953".

Oscar R. Ewing, Attorney, Hughes, Hubbard & Ewing, New York, New York, and predecessor firms, 1919-1947; Assistant Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, 1940-42; Vice Chairman, 1942-47; Special Assistant to the United States Attorney General, 1942 and again in 1947; Acting Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, 1946; Administrator of the Federal Security Agency, 1947-53; and organizer and member of an unofficial political policy group during the Truman administration, 1947-52.

Portrait of Brigadier General Louis H. Renfrow, Assistant Military Aide in the White House, 1947-49.

Farewell to Averell Harriman leaving on Mission to Iran. From left to right, Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Averell Harriman, President Harry S. Truman, and Secretary of Defense George C. Marshall.

General Omar Bradley and General J. Lawton Collins.

Portrait of Dean Acheson, from a series of color portraits of Truman cabinet members. Transferred from museum collection.

Portrait photograph of Bernard Bernstein for use in the oral history project of the Library. Bernard Bernstein, Director, Finance Division and Division of Investigation of Cartels and External Assets, U.S. Group Control Commission for Germany, 1944-45.

First meeting of the Commission on the Reorganization of the Executive Branch of Government, popularly known as the Hoover Commission. Front Row, left to right: George H. Mead, former President Herbert Hoover, President Harry S. Truman, Joseph P. Kennedy, and Senator John L. McClellan. Back Row, left to right: Clarence Brown, James V. Forrestal, Arthur Flemming, Dean Acheson, James Rowe, and Representative Carter Manasco. Same as 59-1365-1.

President Harry S. Truman announcing the surrender of Japan, ending World War II, to assembled reporters in the Oval Office. Journalist Vivianne Lovell of Agence France-Presse stands in the striped dress on the left. Seated behind President Truman are John Snyder, Admiral William D. Leahy, and Secretary of State James Byrnes.