Presidential trips

President Harry S. Truman (on left in foreground) at the Auditorium of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Independence, Missouri. This is his first trip back to Independence since becoming President. Standing in the front row, far left is unidentified, Matthew Connelly, Major General Harry Vaughan and Captain James K. Vardaman.

President Harry S. Truman (on left in foreground) at the Auditorium of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Independence, Missouri. This is his first trip back to Independence since becoming President. Seated in the front row, far left is Major General Harry Vaughan and Captain James K. Vardaman.

President Harry S. Truman (on left in foreground) at the Auditorium of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Independence, Missouri. This is his first trip back to Independence since becoming President. Seated in the front row, far left is Captain James K. Vardaman.

President Harry S. Truman (on left in foreground) at the Auditorium of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Independence, Missouri. This is his first trip back to Independence since becoming President. Seated in the front row, far left is Major General Harry Vaughan and Captain James K. Vardaman.

Snapshot of the Missouri-Pacific Lines train President Harry S. Truman took from Little Rock, Arkansas, to Bull Shoals Dam on July 2, 1952, for the dedication ceremony. The soldier in front of the train is unidentified. The picture was taken by W. E. Conley, who worked for the Arkansas State Police (brother-in-law of Jesse L. Foster). From: Jesse L. Foster.

President Harry S. Truman is greeted by an unidentified woman as he stands on the platform of a train making a brief stop at the Great Northern Depot in Belton, Montana, during a campaign trip for the Democratic ticket of Stevenson and Sparkman. From: Wallace Floren.

President Harry S. Truman speaks from the platform of a train as it makes a brief stop at the Great Northern Depot in Belton, Montana, during a campaign trip for the Democratic ticket of Stevenson and Sparkman. From: Wallace Floren.

President Harry S. Truman and his daughter, Margaret, wave from the platform of a train as it makes a brief stop at the Great Northern Depot in Belton, Montana, during a campaign trip for the Democratic ticket of Stevenson and Sparkman. The unidentified men are agents of the Secret Service. From: Wallace Floren.

President Harry S. Truman and his daughter, Margaret, stand on the platform of a train as it made a brief stop at the Great Northern Depot in Belton, Montana, during a campaign trip for the Democratic ticket of Stevenson and Sparkman. From: Wallace Floren.

The Court Street Methodist Church ladies are shown preparing for the multitude that would swarm into town for ceremonies at Westminster College where President Harry S. Truman and Britain's former Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, are to be awarded honorary degrees. Cooks from all over Callaway County had been pressed into service. The star of the menu was Callaway County ham. Churchill relished the meal. He solemnly proclaimed, "The pig has reached its highest point of evolution in this ham!" From: Hathon M. Fields, Independence, Missouri.