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President Harry S. Truman (center) outside the White House receiving a certificate from two unidentified representatives of Girls Nation, a citizenship organization sponsored by the American Legion Auxiliary.

Girls Nation participants gathered outside the White House to witness the presentation of a certificate from their organization to President Harry S. Truman. Girls Nation is a citizenship organization sponsored by the American Legion Auxiliary

Proof portrait of diplomat and author Charles W. Thayer as a young man wearing a cadet uniform. Thayer graduated from the West Point military academy in 1933.

Full body, exterior view of diplomat and author Charles W. Thayer as a young man standing by a fence rail in an unidentified location. He is wearing a cadet uniform. Thayer graduated from the West Point military academy in 1933.

Full body, exterior view of diplomat and author Charles W. Thayer as a young man standing by a fence rail in an unidentified location. He is wearing a cadet uniform. Thayer graduated from the West Point military academy in 1933.

Full body, exterior view of diplomat and author Charles W. Thayer as a young man seated on a fence rail. He is wearing a cadet uniform. Thayer graduated from the West Point military academy in 1933.

Proof portrait of diplomat and author Charles W. Thayer as a young man wearing a cadet uniform. Thayer graduated from the West Point military academy in 1933.

President Harry S. Truman at podium addressing 3,000 student editors at the Columbia Scholastic Press Association convention at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City. The Chief Executive interrupted his Key West, Florida vacation to deliver the special 15-minute speech to the young people. The brief address was broadcast and televised. Donor: Gordon H. Cole, THE MACHINIST

President Harry S. Truman (back row, fourth from the left) and Kansas City friend Lou Holland (back row, third from left) in the Oval Office with the boys and girls of the Youth Safety Patrol from all over the United States. Lennox Bundy is the African American youth at left in first row, kneeling.

President Harry S. Truman (back row, fourth from the left) and Kansas City friend Lou Holland (back row, third from the left) in the Oval Office with the boys and girls of the Youth Safety Patrol from all over the United States. All others are unidentified. Lennox Bundy is the African American student who is kneeling in the first row, at left.