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Photo taken during a cruise that President Harry S. Truman took on the presidential yacht Williamsburg evidently on the Potomac River. This photo shows a rowboat and a metropolitan police boat.

President Harry S. Truman (seated) in the oval office signing a bill to make the governorship of Puerto Rico an elected office. From left to right: Unidentified woman; Irving Silverman; Representative Fred Crawford of Michigan; Under Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman; Jesus T. Pinero, Governor of Puerto Rico; and Antonio Fernos Isern, Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico.

President Harry S. Truman sees off Secretary of State George Marshall and two other delegates as they leave National Airport in Washington, D. C. for Brazil to attend the Rio de Janeiro Conference of Foreign Ministers. From left to right: Carlos Martins, Brazilian Ambassador to the U. S.; President Truman; Secretary Marshall; Senator Arthur Vandenberg; and Warren Austin, U. S. Representative to the United Nations.

President Harry S. Truman at National Airport in Washington, D. C. to see off Secretary of State George Marshall and two delegates who are leaving to attend the Rio de Janeiro Conference of Foreign Ministers in Brazil. L to R: Warren Austin, U. S. Representative to the United Nations; President Truman; Secretary Marshall; and Senator Arthur Vandenberg.

President Harry S. Truman signing a bill in the oval office making the governorship of Puerto Rico an elected office. L to R: unidentified woman, Irving Silverman, Representative Fred Crawford, Under Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman, Jesus T. Pinero, and Resident Commissioner Antonio Fernos Isern.

President Harry S. Truman at National Airport in Washington, D. C. where he is seeing off Secretary of State George C. Marshall and two delegates who are leaving to attend the Rio de Janeiro Conference of Foreign Ministers in Brazil. L to R at microphones: Senator Arthur Vandenberg, Secretary Marshall, Brazilian Ambassador Carlos Martins, and President Truman.

President Harry S. Truman at National Airport in Washington, D. C., seeing off Secretary of State George Marshall and two delegates who are leaving to fly to Brazil to attend the Rio de Janeiro Conference of Foreign Ministers. From left to right: Carlos Martins, Brazilian Ambassador; President Truman; Secretary Marshall; Senator Arthur Vandenberg; and Warren Austin, U. S. Representative to the United Nations.

President Harry S. Truman sees off Secretary of State George Marshall and two delegates at National Airport in Washington, D. C. as they leave for Brazil to attend the Rio de Janeiro Conference of Foreign Ministers. From left to right: Brazilian Ambassador Carlos Martins; Warren Austin, U. S. Representative to the United Nations; President Truman, Secretary Marshall; and Senator Arthur Vandenberg.

President Harry S. Truman and members of his party wave good-bye before boarding his airplane, the Independence, to fly to Brazil. From left to right: Mrs. Carlos Martins, Margaret Truman, President Truman, Mrs. Bess W. Truman, and Brazilian Ambassador to the United States Carlos Martins.

President Harry S. Truman is at the National Airport in Washington, D. C. where he is seeing off Secretary of State George Marshall and two delegates who are leaving to attend the Rio de Janeiro Conference of Foreign Ministers in Brazil. From left to right: Warren Austin, U. S. Representative to the United Nations; President Truman; Secretary Marshall; and Senator Arthur Vandenberg, Michigan, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.