Chapman, Virgil Munday, 1895-1951

President Harry S. Truman (seated) is signing the National Security Act Amendment of 1949 with guests in the Oval Office. Standing, from left to right: unidentified; Senator Styles Bridges; Congressman Overton Brooks; Congressman Carl T.

President Harry S. Truman at his desk in the Oval Office, signing H.R. 5632, the National Security Act Amendments of 1949, which converted the National Military Establishment into a new Department of Defense and made other changes in the national security system.

President Harry S. Truman is seated at his desk in the Oval Office, signing H.R. 5632, the National Security Act Amendments of 1949, which converted the National Military Establishment into a new Department of Defense and made other changes in the national security system.

Senator Virgil Chapman (center), Democrat, Kentucky, points out something of interest to President Harry S. Truman (left) as they view the crowd from the back of a train at a whistlestop in Lexington, Kentucky, where the President is to make a campaign speech. Tom Underwood, Editor of The Lexington Leader, is on the right. From: James F. Rourke.

President Harry S. Truman converses with Tom Mooney (left), Mayor, Lexington, Kentucky; Senator Virgil Chapman (2nd from right), Democrat, Kentucky; and Tom Underwood (right), editor, Lexington Herald, on the back of a train making a campaign whistlestop in Lexington, Kentucky, where the President will address a crowd of supporters. From: James F. Rourke.