Johnson, Louis Arthur, 1891-1966

President Harry S. Truman (right) is shown shaking hands with Secretary of Defense Louis A. Johnson as the president arrives in Miami, Florida to speak at the Golden Jubilee Convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Standing directly in back of the two is Under Secretary of Defense Stephen T. Early. Others are unidentified. The presidential airplane, "Independence" is in background.

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.

President Harry S. Truman with his Cabinet, in the rear dining room at Blair House. Seated, left to right: Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson; Secretary of State Dean Acheson; the President; Vice-President Alben Barkley; Secretary of the Treasury John Snyder; Attorney General Tom Clark. Standing, left to right: Secretary of the Interior Julius Krug; Postmaster General Jesse Donaldson; Secretary of Agriculture Charles Brannan; Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer; and Secretary of Labor Maurice Tobin.

Tom C. Clark (foreground, left) sworn in as Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court by Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson (foreground, right) with President Harry S. Truman (center)] looking on. Standing in the background are, from left to right: Georgia Clark (wife of Ramsey Clark), Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn, Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer, Mrs. Tom Clark (Mary Ramsey), Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson, Postmaster General Jesse Donaldson.

President Harry S. Truman shaking hands with Tom Clark in the White House Rose Garden, on the occasion of Clark's taking the oath of office as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. From left to right: Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer, Associate Justice Tom Clark, Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Vice-President Alben Barkley, Secretary of the Treasury John Snyder, Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn, President Truman, Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson, and Chief Justice Fred Vinson.

Tom C. Clark (foreground, left) sworn in as Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court by Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson (foreground, right) with President Harry S. Truman (center) looking on. Standing in the background are, from left to right: Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer, Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder (partly obscured), Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson, and Postmaster General Jesse Donaldson.

Tom C. Clark (foreground, left) being sworn in as Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court by Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson (foreground, right) with President Harry S. Truman (center) looking on. Standing in the background are, from left to right: Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn, Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer, Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder, Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson (partly obscured by Vinson), Vice-President Alben Barkley, and Postmaster General Jesse Donaldson.

President Harry S. Truman (third from left) in the Oval Office, receiving a report on the work of the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF), prepared by the United States Committee for UNICEF. From left to right: Under Secretary of State James Webb; Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson; the President; Mary (Mrs. Oswald B.) Lord, chairman of the U.S. Committee for UNICEF; Miss Katharine Lenroot, chief of the Children's Bureau and U.S. delegate to UNICEF; and Dallas Dort, Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs.

Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson (second from left) standing with other unidentified guests at a banquet given by President Harry S. Truman in honor of President Eurico Gaspar Dutra of Brazil. The banquet was held at the Carlton Hotel in Washington, D.C.

President Harry S. Truman and others review a parade during Army Day ceremonies. Seated in the front row are, from left to right: unidentified Navy officer, General Omar Bradley, Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson, President Truman, and two unidentified men. The man in the second row between Bradley and Johnson is General Robert Landry. All others are unidentified.