Presidential trips

President Harry S. Truman shakes hands with General Douglas MacArthur at their conference at Wake Island on Communist aggression in the far east.

Accompanied by Secret Service Agent George Drescher (behind Truman), President Harry S. Truman (foreground) carries his lunch tray through the chow line in the crew's mess hall on the USS Augusta. He is en route to the Potsdam Conference. All others sailors in this photograph are unidentified.

Allied leaders sit down for the opening session of the Potsdam Conference in Potsdam, Germany. President Harry S. Truman is seated foreground (back to camera). Soviet Prime Minister Josef Stalin is at right. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill is at left. Secretary of State James Byrnes is seated to the right of President Truman. Admiral William Leahy is seated two to the right of President Truman. British foreign minister Anthony Eden is to the left of Winston Churchill. Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov is to the left of Prime Minister Stalin. All others are unidentified.

The building, the home of the Pan American Airways station manager on Wake Island, served as the location for the conference between President Harry S. Truman and General Douglas MacArthur regarding Communist aggression in the Far East. All the people in the photo are unidentified.

President Harry S. Truman (center) stands with Soviet Prime Minister Josef Stalin (left) and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (right) at Cecilienhof Palace during the Potsdam Conference. In the background are Clement Attlee (between President Truman and Churchill) and Admiral William D. Leahy (between Stalin and Truman).

Photograph of Wake Island, where President Harry S. Truman met with General Douglas MacArthur and others regarding the conduct of the Korean War.

Leaders of the Big Three pose for photographers at the Potsdam Conference. Front row, left to right: Prime Minister Clement Attlee, President Harry S. Truman, General Joseph Stalin. Back row, left to right: Admiral William Leahy, Ernest Bevin, Secretary of State James F. Byrnes, and Vyacheslav Molotov.

President Harry S. Truman addresses a crowd during his visit to Charlotte Amalie, Virgin Islands. The sign above the President's head reads "Welcome President Truman Champion of Human Rights."

President Harry S. Truman and members of his party are standing around an old car while at the home of Stanley Woodward in Charlottesville, Virginia. From left to right: Admiral William Leahy, Major General Harry Vaughan, President Truman, General Wallace Graham, Press Secretary Charles Ross, and Clark Clifford.

The harbor at Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, on the occasion of President Harry S. Truman's vacation visit to the island.