Presidential advisors

George W. Taylor (left) is sworn in as the Chairman of the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion Advisory Board by Frank K. Sanderson (right )of the White House Administrative Staff while John R. Steelman (center) looks on.

John R. Steelman is photographed as he reads some papers, most likely in his White House office.

Emma (Mrs. John) Steelman (right) smiles at the camera as her husband, John R. Steelman (third from left) shakes hands with President Harry S. Truman (second from right) and an unidentified man after being sworn in as the Director of the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion. Others are unidentified.

Federal Judge John Caskie Collet (left) of Kansas City, Missouri confers with John R. Steelman, Reconversion Director, at the White House Executive Offices, as they consider new organization plans for the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion, and the Office of Economic Stabilization.

From left to right, George H. Mead, member of the Advisory Board of the Office of War Mobilization; Roy L. Thompson, New Orleans Federal Land Bank President and Chairman; and Daniel W. Bell, former undersecretary of the Treasury, are sworn as members of the Price Decontrol Board. John R. Steelman (second from right) holds the Bible while Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Hugo Black (right) administers the oath.

John R. Steelman, Stabilization Director, is pictured at his desk after signing an amendment to the Government Wage Policy that permitted striking American Federation of Labor (AFL) seamen to obtain pay raises agreed to by shipping operators but twice disapproved by the Wage Stabilization Board.

President Harry S. Truman (third from right) stands next to Emma (Mrs. John) Steelman (second from right) as John R. Steelman (second from left) is sworn in as Director of the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion, as photographers record the ceremony. The photograph is taken outside the White House. All others are unidentified.

Portrait of Assistant to the President John R. Steelman.

John R. Steelman (right) talks with an unidentified radio announcer during Steelman's first radio broadcast after leaving government service in 1953.

Assistant to the President John R. Steelman is photographed in his office as he speaks with someone not on camera.