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A while back, New York visitor Harry S. Truman was taking his morning stroll down 49th Street and stopped by the "Today" studio window. A reporter was sent out to interview the former President. Harry S. Truman is but one of the many distinguished visitors who stop at "Today's" window to wave to the national TV audience. From: Houston Post.

President Harry S. Truman operates a movie camera during a picture-taking session on the south grounds of the White House today. The subjects were members of the White House News Photographers Association (the "One More Club"), who presented a movie and still camera to the Chief Executive during a brief ceremony. From: Houston Post.

President Harry S. Truman presents the annual $500 Clapper Memorial Award for outstanding Washington reporting to Nat Finney, correspondent for Minneapolis Star and Tribune and Des Moines Register, at the 25th annual dinner of the White House Correspondents Association. Also in photo is Earnest B. Vaccaro (left) and Felix Belair, Jr. (right). From: Houston Post.

Annual dinner of the National Press Club at the Statler Hotel in Washington, D. C. President Harry S. Truman is the guest, seated on back row of long banquet table. This is a general view of the banquet room. Original is oversized photo; it is filed in oversize photo file.

Harry S. Truman beams as he holds a box of breakfast pastries presented to him by a passing truck driver near the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City as he was taking his early morning walk today. From: Houston Post.

Former President Harry S. Truman and newsmen are in a jovial mood in New York City today as the latter questioned him regarding a statement by Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-WI) in which he said he may invite the ex-chief executive to testify in a new probe of Americans suspected of atomic spying for Russia. Harry S. Truman told newsmen, "What I could tell you, you wouldn't print. Therefore, I say no comment." Harry S. Truman was interviewed after lunching with officials of the Harry S. Truman Memorial Library, Inc. Same as 94-72. From: Houston Post.

Former President Harry S. Truman is the center of attention of a crowd on the steps of the U.S. Capitol today as he arranges a group of friends to pose with him for news photographers. Truman, in Washington for the first time since he left the presidency, paid his second visit to the Capitol today for lunch. From: Houston Post.

This was taken on the ninth Key West Trip. It is the U.S. Naval Air Station, Boca Chica, Florida. Photographers, Military and Civilian news, and service men are awaiting the arrival of the Presidential party from Washington D.C. From: Naval Photo Center, sent to the Truman Library by the National Archives. Original 4X 5 negative.

Former President Harry S. Truman points out one of the proposed locations for the projected 1,500,000 Truman Library as he talks with reporters today on a tour of the family farm near Grandview, Missouri. Three sites on the farm are under consideration for the library, which will house the ex-President's official papers. Behind Mr. Truman is Associated Press reporter Tony Vaccaro, wearing earmuffs. From: Houston Post.

Former President Harry S. Truman and Mrs. Truman tour Rome, Italy during their European trip. In this picture, Ambassador Stanley Woodward is at left and former President Truman at right, during a press conference at the Vatican.