President Harry S. Truman (smiling and standing at desk) announces the surrender of Japan at the conclusion of World War II to the media. First row, left to right: Admiral William D. Leahy, Chief of Staff; Secretary of State James F. Byrnes; President Truman; and Cordell Hull, Secretary of State under Franklin Roosevelt.
Oval Office Memovox disc recording, which includes May 23, 1945 press conference in the Oval Office. President Harry S. Truman's eighth news conference was held in his office at the White House at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, May 23, 1945. The recording is poor quality except for the press conference, which can be heard fairly plainly. Also contains other conversation fragments that are hard to understand. The Oval Office recordings were made from 1945 to 1948 by a Memovox machine kept in the Oval Office. This recording was made from Memovac disc 500x.
President Truman is shown as he presides at the final Presidential Cabinet meeting before his inauguration. Seated Left to Right: Secretary of Defense James Forrestal, President Harry S. Truman, Vice President Alben Barkley, Treasury Secretary John Snyder. Rear Left to Right: Commerce Secretary Charles Sawyer, Acting Secretary of State Robert Lovett, Interior Secretary Julius Krug, Attorney General Tom Clark, Agricultural Secretary Charles Brannan, Labor Secretary Maurice Tobin, Postmaster General Jesse Donaldson.
President Harry S. Truman and others prepare to depart for a western trip. From left to right: Attorney General Tom Clark, Secretary of Agriculture Charles Brannan, unidentified, President Truman, Democratic National Chairman J. Howard McGrath, Secretary of State George C. Marshall, and Secretary of Defense James V. Forrestal.
President Harry S. Truman (seated) signs a proclamation entitled "Prevention and Control of Juvenile Delinquency." Dignitaries present L to R: Sargent Shriver, Attorney General Tom C. Clark, Oscar Ewing, The Hon. G. Howland Shaw, Chairman of National Conference on Prevention and Control of Juvenile Delinquency, Katharine Lenroot, Eunice Kennedy, Frank L. Weil, John W. Andrews, Vice Chairman of National Conference.