Steelman, John Roy, 1900-1999

Group photograph of President Harry S. Truman and his staff while on vacation in Key West, Florida. Front row, left to right: Richard Neustadt, Cornelius Mara, Joseph Feeney, Philleo Nash, Irving Perlmeter. Center row, left to right: John Steelman, Admiral William Leahy, President Truman, Averell Harriman, Charles Murphy. Back row, left to right: Robert Landry, Robert Dennison, Stanley Woodward, Matthew Connelly, William Hassett, Joseph Short, Harry Vaughan, and Wallace Graham.

Group photo of President Harry S. Truman and his party while on vacation at Key West, Florida. Front row, left to right: John Steelman, Chief Justice Fred Vinson, President Truman, Admiral William Leahy, William Hassett. Back row, left to right: William Bray, General Robert Landry, Admiral Robert Dennison, Stanley Woodward, Charles Ross, General Harry Vaughan, Wallace Graham, and Eben Ayers.

Shown standing left to right during the NBC "Battle Report Washington" broadcast are: Ted Ayers, Production Director; John D. Hickerson, Assistant Secretary of State; Frank Pace, Secretary of the Army; John R. Steelman, Assistant to the President; James Webb, Under Secretary of State. Seated: David Brinkley, Commentator.

Shown seated left to right: James E. Webb, Dr. Edwin Nourse, Senator Clinton Anderson, John R. Steelman, and Averell Harriman. John Steelman has signed the front of the photograph with the following inscription, "To my friend, associate and great Budget Director, James E. Webb with all good wishes. John R. Steelman 11/17/47"

Members of the National Security Resources Board are seated around a table, left to right: Charles Sawyer; Oscar Chapman; Dean Acheson; Stuart Symington; John Snyder; Stephen Early; Maurice Tobin; W. Averell Harriman. The men standing are, left to right: Clarence McCormick; Frederick Lawton; John Steelman; Herbert Howard; and Robert Smith. Donor: Dorothy Girton. Used by Democratic Digest.

First Lady Bess Truman and Margaret Truman board the USS Missouri for the return trip from Brazil. Standing behind Margaret Truman are (from left to right), Admiral William D. Leahy, John Steelman, and General Harry Vaughan. All others are unidentified. From the Album, President Truman's Trip to Rio de Janeiro.

Original caption: "Out of the tank, Dr. Steelman runs the gauntlet." Dr. John Steelman, Assistant to the President, is participating in a crossing the equator ceremony on the USS Missouri, as President Harry S. Truman and his party return from a visit to Brazil. Others are unidentified. From the album "President Truman's Trip to Rio de Janeiro."

Original caption: "Dr. Steelman is tossed to the Royal Bears." He is participating in a crossing the equator ceremony on the USS Missouri, on the return trip from President Harry S. Truman's visit to Brazil. Others are unidentified. From the album "President Truman Trips to Rio de Janeiro.

Original caption: "Don" Steelman hesitatingly submits to "Royal surgery." Presidential assistant John Steelman participates in a crossing the equator ceremony on the USS Missouri. He is returning, with President Harry S. Truman, from a trip to Brazil. Others are unidentified. From the album "President Truman's Trip to Rio de Janeiro."

Portrait of John R. Steelman, Assistant to the President.