Presidential advisors

Assistant to the President John R. Steelman (left) and two unidentified associates pose for a photograph while enjoying a cocktail at an unspecified event. All others are also unidentified.

John R. Steelman is receiving an honorary degree, Doctor of Laws, from Redlands University. The man on the left wearing the mortar board may be George H. Armacost, President of the University of Redlands. Others in the background are unidentified.

David Silvergleid (left), President of the Joint Conference of Affiliated Postal Employees of Greater New York and Vicinity and Patrick J. Fitzgerald (center), President, Local 10, National Federation of Postal Clerks are conferring with Assistant to the President John R. Steelman (right).

Head of the Citizen's Food Committee Charles Luckman (center) and Assistant to the President John R. Steelman (left) examine a map with James E. Colliflower (right), a member of the Governors' and Mayors' Food Committees. Charles Luckman and John Steelman spoke on a closed circuit television broadcast that originated at WTOP, Washington to 169 CBS stations.

Heads of three railroad unions which had called a nationwide strike are meeting with Presidential Adviser John R. Steelman at the White House. Seated from left to right are: Alfred J. Glover, President, Switchmen's Union; David B. Robertson, President, Firemen's and Enginemen's Union; John R. Steelman; and Alvanley Johnston, Chief of Locomotive Engineers.

President Harry S. Truman and members of his vacation party pose for photograph in the garden of the Little White House in Key West, Florida. Back row, left to right: Administrative Assistant to the President Donald Dawson, Assistant Press Secretary Eben Ayers, General Robert Landry, General Harry Vaughan, Leslie Biffle, Special Counsel to the President Clark Clifford, Stanley Woodward, General Wallace Graham, Captain Robert Dennison, William J. Bray, Jonathan Daniels. Front row, left to right: Correspondence Secretary William D.

John R. Steelman (right) and Emma (Mrs. John) Steelman (center) pose for a photograph while eating fried chicken with an unidentified woman (left).

Participants in the television program "Battle Report - Washington" examine some material as they prepare from the show. From left to right: John D. Hickerson, Assistant Secretary of State for United Nations Affairs; John R. Steelman, producer of the television program "Battle Report - Washington" for the Truman Administration; and Colonel L. M. Gosorn of the United States Army.

Patrick J. Fitzgerald, President, Local 10, National Federal Organization of Postal Clerks (standing, left) and David Silvergleid, President of the Joint Conference of Affiliated Postal Employees of Greater New York and Vicinity (standing, right) look over the shoulder of Representative Louis B. Heller, 7th District, New York (seated, left) and John R. Steelman (seated, right).

Members of President Harry S. Truman's vacation party are sitting on a bench outside President Truman's vacation residence in Key West, Florida. From left to right: Clark Clifford, William Hassett, John R. Steelman and Matthew Connelly. The men were part of the group that accompanied President Truman on vacation after his successful election to a second term of office.