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Debarking from U.S.S. Missouri is Mrs. Bess Wallace Truman (front). Behind Mrs. Truman is Commander Harold D. Fuller, and behind him is Margaret Truman. They are all coming home from a trip to Rio De Janeiro with President Harry S. Truman.

President Harry S. Truman is sitting at his desk in the White House signing documents.

Scene outside of the White House with a group of unidentified people.

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.

An African American man is laying documents on the desk of President Harry S. Truman.

President Harry S. Truman (left) with Charles Luckman (right), Chairman of the Citizens Food Committee. President Truman addressed the nation via television on the need to conserve food to send to Europe. This marked the first time that television cameras entered the White House to televise an event.

From left to right, President Harry S. Truman greeting Secretary of State George C. Marshall, Senator Arthur Vandenberg, and Warren Austin just arriving from a plane.

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

President Harry S. Truman sitting behind a desk is signing document of, "Promotion and Elimination of Officers in the Army, Navy, and Marine Corp." Standing, from left to right: Col. Joseph Knighton, Frank Schuyler, Commander D.L. Martineau, Captain S.S. Bowling, Rear Admiral Thomas L. Sprague, Brigadier General J.E. Dahlquist, Lieutenant Colonel G.E. Baya, Brigadier General J.E. Upston, and Colonel F.H. Miller.