Presidents

Dr. Chaim Weizmann, President of Israel, presents a Torah, or Holy Scroll, to President Truman during a visit to the White House. Donor: Rabbi Phillip S. Bernstein.

President Harry S. Truman with David Ben-Gurion, Prime Minister, and H. E. Abba Eban, Ambassador, of Israel. President Truman is receiving a gift of a menorah.

Heading from the Blair House to the White House are Attorney General J. Howard McGrath, President Harry S. Truman, and Defense Secretary Louis Johnson.

Return of President Harry S. Truman and Vice President-elect Alben Barkley to Washington, D.C. after the Presidential election. Seated in back, left to right: President Truman, J. Howard McGrath, and Vice President-elect Barkley. Seated in front, left to right: Bess Wallace Truman, Margaret Truman, and Mrs. Marian Barkley Truitt (daughter of Alben Barkley).

Return of President Harry S. Truman from whistlestop tour during Presidential campaign. President Truman is seated on left in back. Others are unidentified.

President Harry S. Truman (back seat, left) in the back of an automobile, upon his return to Washington, D.C. from a campaign trip. Others in the car are unidentified.

President Harry S. Truman (right) returns from a whistlestop tour during the presidential campaign. He is joined by his wife, First Lady Bess Wallace Truman (third from the right), daughter Margaret (second from the right), and two unidentified men. They are at Union Station in Washington, D.C.

Crowds of people at the train station in Sacramento, California to see President Harry S. Truman during his West Coast campaign trip, June 3-18, 1948. From the album "President Truman's trip to the West Coast of the U. S."

President Truman is on his way to Bolivar, Missouri with the President of Venezuela to dedicate a statue of Simon Bolivar. This is from a Truman Library Collection 1948-1950 scrapbook.

President Harry S. Truman (in back seat of car, right) riding in an open car during a stop in Bolivar, Missouri, where he spoke at the dedication of a statue of Simon Bolivar. With him is the President of Venezuela, Romulo Gallegos (back seat, left), and the Mayor of Bolivar, Dr. Doyle C. McCraw (center). All others are unidentified.