Presidents

President Harry S. Truman (foreground, left) and Secretary of State George C. Marshall (left, behind Truman) are escorted from the Galeao Airport, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, by Brazilian officers. All others are unidentified. The President is scheduled to address the Inter-American Defense Conference at the Quitandinha Hotel in Petropolis. Please credit: "Maj. Jerome Eichholz, U.S. Air Force, courtesy Harry S. Truman Library."

President Harry S. Truman (foreground, right) and Secretary of State George C. Marshall (second from the right) are escorted from the Galeao Airport, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. All others are unidentified. The President is scheduled to address the Inter-American Defense Conference at the Quitandinha Hotel in Petropolis. Please credit: "Maj. Jerome Eichholz, U.S. Air Force, courtesy Harry S. Truman Library."

President Harry S. Truman (center) is escorted from the Galeao Airport on Governor's Island, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. All others are unidentified. The President is scheduled to address the Inter-American Defense Conference at the Quitandinha Hotel in Petropolis. Please credit "Maj. Jerome Eichholz, U.S. Air Force, courtesy Harry S. Truman Library."

President Harry S. Truman shakes hands with an unidentified Brazilian officer who greeted him upon his arrival on the Independence in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Others in the photo are also unidentified. The President is to address the Inter-American Defense Conference at the Quitandinha Hotel in Petropolis. Please credit: "Maj. Jerome Eichholz, U.S. Air Force, courtesy Harry S. Truman Library."

Under the wing of the "Independence," President Harry S. Truman (third from left) and Secretary of State George C. Marshall (fourth from the left) stand at attention for the playing of the Brazilian National Anthem. Both are in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for the Inter-American Defense Conference. All others are unidentified. Please credit: "Maj. Jerome Eichholz, U.S. Air Force, courtesy Harry S. Truman Library."

President Harry S. Truman, Bess Truman, and Margaret Truman disembark from "The Independence," which landed at Galeao Airport on Governor's Island, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The officer is unidentified. President Truman is scheduled to address the Inter-American Defense Conference at the Quitandinha Hotel in Petropolis. Please credit "Maj. Jerome Eichholz, U.S. Air Force, courtesy Harry S. Truman Library."

President Harry S. Truman, Bess Truman, and Margaret Truman disembark from "The Independence," which landed at Galeao Airport on Governor's Island, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The officer is unidentified. President Truman is scheduled to address the Inter-American Defense Conference at the Quitandinha Hotel in Petropolis. Please credit "Maj. Jerome Eichholz, U.S. Air Force, courtesy Harry S. Truman Library."

President Harry S. Truman (second from left) and others sit on the speakers' platform where the President is to address the closing session of the Inter-American Defense Conference meeting at the Quitandinha Hotel, Petropolis, Brazil. Brazilian President Eurico Gaspar Dutra is seated second from the right. The others are unidentified. Please credit: "Maj. Jerome Eichholz, U.S. Air Force, courtesy Harry S. Truman Library."

President Harry S. Truman seated in a motor launch carrying him from Galeao Airport on Governor's Island to the Touring Club Landing, Rio de Janeiro, where he will be officially welcomed to Brazil. The President is scheduled to address the Inter-American Defense Conference at the Quitandinha Hotel in Petropolis. (See 97-2212.) Please credit: "Maj. Jerome Eichholz, U.S. Air Force, courtesy Harry S. Truman Library."

President Harry S. Truman is shown seated in a motor launch carrying him from Galeao Airport on Governor's Island to the Touring Club Landing, Rio de Janeiro, where he will be officially welcomed to Brazil. The President is scheduled to address the Inter-American Defense Conference at the Quitandinha Hotel in Petropolis. (See 97-2212.) Please credit: "Maj. Jerome Eichholz, U.S. Air Force, courtesy Harry S. Truman Library."