Presidential advisors

General Harry H. Vaughan, Military Aide to President Harry S. Truman, in his office at the White House.

President Harry S. Truman (back of table, fourth from right) and members of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, the House Public Lands Committee, and the Senate Committee on Public Works attend a luncheon in the dining room of the Department of the Interior. Also pictured: Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman (back of table, fifth from right); Senator Joseph O'Mahoney (back of table, third from right); Senator Zales Ecton (back of table, second from right); Congressman John R. Murdock (back of table, standing); and Appointment Secretary Matthew Connelly (back of table, left).

President Harry S. Truman (center) with Charles E. Wilson (left), formerly President of the General Electric Company, taking the oath of office as Director of the Office of Defense Mobilization, as Chief Justice Fred Vinson (right) administers the oath in the Oval Office.

President Harry S. Truman (left) with the Director of the Office of Defense Mobilization, Charles E. Wilson (right).

John Steelman, center, negotiates a settlement in the Enginemen and Firemen's Railroad Strike of 1950. C.D. MacKay, Chairman of Southeastern Carrier Conference Committee and Assistant Vice President of Southern Railway System, is on the extreme left, and David B. Robertson, President of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Enginemen and Firemen, is on the extreme right.

President Harry S. Truman (center) with Charles E. Wilson (left), formerly President of the General Electric Company, preparing to take the oath of office as Director of the Office of Defense Mobilization, as Chief Justice Fred Vinson (right) prepares to administer the oath in the Oval Office.

Special Assistant to the President Averell Harriman (foreground, left) and Secretary of State Dean Acheson (foreground, right) at Washington National Airport to greet President Harry S. Truman upon his return from the Wake Island Conference. The Presidential plane, Independence, is in the background. All others are unidentified.

President Harry S. Truman greeted by members of his Cabinet and staff upon his return from the conference on Wake Island with General Douglas MacArthur. From left to right: Special Assistant to the President Averell Harriman, Secretary of Defense George Marshall, President Truman, Secretary of State Dean Acheson, unidentified (partly obscured by Snyder), Secretary of the Treasury John Snyder, Secretary of the Army Frank Pace, and General Omar Bradley. Others are unidentified.

Return of President Harry S. Truman from his conference on Wake Island with General Douglas MacArthur. From left to right: Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Special Assistant to the President Averell Harriman, Secretary of the Treasury John Snyder, and President Truman (back to camera).

President Harry S. Truman greeted by members of his Cabinet and staff upon his return from the conference on Wake Island with General Douglas MacArthur. From left to right: Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Secretary of Defense George Marshall, President Truman, Special Assistant to the President Averell Harriman (partly obscured), and Secretary of the Treasury John Snyder.