Smith, Walter Bedell, 1895-1961

Enroute to Bonham, Texas on President Harry S. Truman's special train, President Truman (left) talks with Walter Bedell Smith, Russian Ambassador, after Smith boarded the train in Dallas. From: Houston Post.

President Harry S. Truman and First Lady Bess Truman eat lunch on the lawn of the Little White House in Key West, Florida with some members of their vacation party. Seated from left to right: Charles W. Jackson, Philleo Nash, Eben Ayers, John R. Steelman, Major General Harry H. Vaughan, Rear Admiral Robert L. Dennison, Walter Bedell Smith, President Truman and Mrs. Truman. Others are unidentified.

President Harry S. Truman, Mrs. Bess Truman and Margaret Truman leave church services at the U. S. Naval Station Memorial Chapel at Key West, Florida. Walter Bedell Smith is at right in back.

General Walter Bedell Smith's dinner at Victory House in Frankfurt. Around table starting at left, front: Brigadier General Owen Summers; W. Alton Jones; Dr. Joseph E. Pogue; Captain Thomas Higginson; Secretary Harold L. Ickes; General Walter Bedell Smith; Petroleum Administrator Ralph K. Davies (half hidden); Ellen Downes; Sam Botsford; General Willard Stewart Paul (half hidden); Stanley Richardson; Gordon Sessions (half hidden); General Thomas Jefferson Davis; unidentified General; and Ralph T. Zook.

General Walter Bedell Smith's dinner at Victory Guest House in Frankfurt. Around the table from left to right, back to front: Brigadier General Owen Summers; George A. Hill, Jr.; General Arthur Seymor Nevins; W. Alton Jones; R.E. Hardwicke; Dr. Joseph E. Pogue; General Harold Roe Bull (behind Dr. Pogue's head); Elaine Owens; Captain Thomas Higginson; William R. Boyd, Jr.; Interior Secretary Harold L. Ickes; Sam Botsford; Stanley Richardson; General Thomas Jefferson Davis. Some of these individuals are with the petroleum group visiting Europe.

General Walter Bedell Smith's dinner at Victory Guest House in Frankfurt, Germany. From Left to right at table: William R. Boyd, Jr.; Secretary Harold L. Ickes; and General Walter Bedell Smith. Other two men unidentified.

George Marshall taking the oath of office with, pictured from left, Arthur H. Vandenberg, Admiral William D. Leahy, Rear Admiral James H. Foskett (partly obscured by Leahy), General Harry H. Vaughan, John W. Snyder, Tom C. Clark, George C. Marshall (foreground), President Harry S. Truman (standing behind desk), General Walter Bedell Smith (background, next to Clark), Clinton P. Anderson, Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson, Julius A. Krug (next to Anderson), unidentified photographer, James F. Byrnes, and Lewis B. Schwellenbach. Autographed by all present. Photographers are not identified.

President Harry S. Truman and two of the "cloak and dagger boys" seated at his desk in the White House. Left to right: President Truman, General Walter Bedell Smith, and James S. Lay, Jr. One of a series of photographs taken by Alfred Wagg for the book "Mr. President", published in 1952, by William Hillman. See Page 63. (Similar to 78-897) From: Papers of William Hillman, "Mr. President" file, Box 2 - Loose Dummy (2 of 2).

General Walter Bedell Smith, U.S. Ambassador to Russia, who is paying an unexpected visit to Washington, shown at his desk at the State Department this morning.

Lieut. General Walter Bedell Smith after being named successor to Averell Harriman as Ambassador to Russia. Lieut. General Smith served as Chief of Staff for General Dwight D. Eisenhower in Europe. From: Beth Gore