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In the Oval Office of the White House, President Harry S. Truman receives the gift of a first edition book, Kentucky on the March, a story of social progress in Kentucky, from Vice President Alben Barkley and the book's author, Harry W. Schacter.

President Harry S. Truman (at right), congratulates Paul G. Hoffman (at left) following a White House ceremony at which Hoffman was sworn into office as Administrator for Economic Cooperation. Chief Justice Fred Vinson, center, of the U.S. Supreme Court, administered the oath of office.

This is the first meeting of the Commission on the Organization of the Executive Branch of Government, also known as the Hoover Commission. Standing, left to right: Representative Clarence J. Brown, James V. Forrestal, Arthur S. Flemming, James K. Pollock, Dean G. Acheson, James H. Rowe, and Representative Carter Manasco. Seated, from left to right: George Mead, former President Herbert Hoover, President Harry S. Truman, Joseph P. Kennedy, and Senator John F. McClellan. Same as 58-337 but less cropped.

President Harry S. Truman (left) talking with James O'Neill (right), National Commander of the American Legion. This is O'Neill's first meeting with the President since election as Legion Commander at the New York convention.

President Harry S. Truman holding a motion picture camera with two hands and looking through the lens. Photographers are in the background. The president was given this movie camera as a gift by the White House Photographers Association and he used it to take movies of the members of the press on the South Lawn of the White House.

Matthew Connelly, Appointment Secretary for President Harry S. Truman (left), handing President Truman some documents.

President Harry S. Truman (center), holding two cameras that are being presented to him by the White House Photographers.

Close-up of President Harry S. Truman looking through a camera getting ready to take a picture. The President was given this camera by the White House News Photographers Association, and he is taking a photo of the White House press corps gathered on the South Lawn of the White House.

President Harry S. Truman (left) shakes hands with Ercil Mabe, World War II veteran of Star, North Carolina, at the Garden Party for War Veterans on the White House grounds. Standing next to President Truman is Rear Admiral James Foskett.

President Harry S. Truman signs an act regarding the control and development of atomic energy. Standing behind President Truman, from left to right: Senator Tom Connally, Senator Eugene Millikin, Senator Edwin Johnson, Senator Thomas Hart, Senator Brien McMahon, Senator Warren Austin, and Senator Richard Russell.