Presidential advisors

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.

President Harry S. Truman aboard the presidential yacht, the U.S.S. Williamsburg, during the President's visit to the U.S. Marine base at Quantico, Virginia. Leaning on the side of the yacht, from left to right: unidentified, Joseph Feeney, President Truman, Press Secretary Charles Ross, and Charles Murphy. All others are unidentified.

President Harry S. Truman peering through binoculars, with other dignitaries, watching a weapons demonstration involving amphibious helicopter landings at the United States Marine base at Quantico, Virginia. Seated behind Truman in the second row are, from left to right: General Harry Vaughan, Charles Murphy, and Press Secretary Charles Ross. Seated in the fourth row, behind Mr. Murphy is Joseph Feeney. All others are unidentified.