White House staff

Presidential Appointment Secretary Matthew Connelly (left) shakes hands with Frank E. McKinney (right), the chairman of the Democratic National Committee. From the scrapbooks of Matthew Connelly, volume 7.

President Harry S. Truman prepares to throw the first ball at the 1951 opening game at Griffith Stadium in Washington. In the first row are, from left to right: two unidentified men, Jane (Mrs. Alben) Barkley, Vice President Alben Barkley, First Lady Bess W. Truman, President Truman, Washington Senators manager Bucky Harris, Senators President Clark Griffith, and New York Yankees manager Casey Stengel. Standing behind and between Griffith and Stengel is United States Supreme Court Justice Fred Vinson. In the second row are Admiral Robert Dennison and General Harry Vaughan (behind Mrs.

At Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, President Harry S. Truman (center) shakes hands with William Simmons (lower right) before flying to Key West, Florida. From the Scrapbooks of Matthew Connelly, Volume 4.

President Harry S. Truman (far right) chats with members of his staff at a baseball game in Griffith Stadium. Front row, left to right: Major General Harry Vaughan, Admiral William Leahy, and President Truman. Second row, left to right: Press Secretary Charles Ross, unidentified, General Robert Landry, Matthew Connelly, and unidentified. All others are unidentified. From the Scrapbooks of Matthew Connelly, Volume 4.

Members of President Harry S. Truman's staff pose with the fish they caught while on vacation with the President in Key West, Florida. Captain Robert Dennison (center) holds up the 29 pound mackerel he caught. From left to right, General Wallace Graham, Correspondence Secretary William Hassett, Admiral William Leahy (wearing hat and glasses), Eben Ayers (partly obscured), Captain Dennison, unidentified reporter, Colonel Robert Landry (mostly obscured), and Special Counsel Clark Clifford. All others are unidentified. From the Scrapbooks of Matthew Connelly, Volume 4.

James A. Farley (foreground), Ex-Postmaster General and former Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, applauds the entrance of President Harry S. Truman (left, background) to the Jefferson-Jackson Dinner in the Mayflower Hotel. Matthew Connelly greets President Truman in the center background. All others are unidentified. From the Scrapbooks of Matthew Connelly, Volume 4.

Presidential Appointment Secretary Matthew Connelly receives a report from the General Motors fact finding panel that resolved the General Motors and United Auto Workers dispute. From left to right, Milton Eisenhower, Lloyd Garrison, and Matthew Connelly. From the Scrapbook of Matthew Connelly, Volume 2.

Matthew Connelly (left), Appointment Secretary to President Harry S. Truman, accepts a sack of potatoes from Senator Francis J. Myers (right), as Nina Herschner (center) looks on. Ms. Herschner is the Pennsylvania Potato Blossom Queen and from Felton, Pennsylvania.

Maurice Latta (left) points at President Harry Truman's signature as Matthew Connelly (right) holds the bill that authorized emergency relief to France, Italy, and Austria.