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Presidential Party in Key West, Florida

President Harry S. Truman and the rest of the presidential party pose for a photograph while on vacation in Key West, Florida. Front row, left to right: John Steelman, First Lady Bess Truman, President Truman, Margaret Truman, and William Hassett. Back row, left to right: Stephen Spingarn, General Robert Landry, Admiral Robert Dennison, Stanley Woodward, Charlie Ross, General Harry Vaughan, General Wallace Graham, and David Niles.

President Truman Tours Fort Jefferson

Caretaker of Fort Jefferson, Russell A. Gibbs, guides the presidential party atop Fort Jefferson National Historic Site in Dry Tortugas, Florida. The party includes: President Harry S. Truman (second from left), Admiral William Leahy, Edwin Locke, John Steelman, Press Secretary Charles G. Ross (plaid cap), newspaper correspondent Felix Belair (hand cupped to ear), and Chief C.J. Langello, USN. President Truman visited the Dry Tortugas Islands during his vacation in Key West. All others are unidentified. From the album of the President's vacation trip to Key West, Florida.

President Truman touring Fort Jefferson

President Harry S. Truman, Admiral William Leahy, Charlie Ross, Clark Clifford, John Steelman, Harry Vaughan, Edward A. Locke, Admiral C.W. Styer, John Caskie Collet, James Foskett, Lieutenant Colonel Myers, Captain W. A. Saunders and his son, Bill Saunders, and Secret Service Agents take a tour of Fort Jefferson conducted by Russell A. Gibbs, custodian. From the album of The President's vacation trip to Key West, Florida.

The President , His Family, and His Staff in a Group Photo in Key West

President Harry S. Truman, First Lady Bess Wallace Truman, Margaret Truman, and the president's staff, on the lawn of the Little White House, in Key West, Florida. Back row from left to right: David Lloyd (Assistant to Charles Murphy, Administrative Assistant to the President), Maj. Gen. Harry Vaughan, Hon. Matthew Connelly, Hon. Stanley Woodward, and Rear Admiral Robert Dennison. Front row from left to right: Press Secretary Charles Ross, the First Lady, President Truman, Honorable John Steelman, and Honorable William Hassett. Seated on the ground in front of the group is Margaret Truman.

Political Cartoon, "It was Right Here When I Left for St. Louis!"

This is a photograph of a political cartoon by Jim Berryman for the Washington Evening Star. President Harry S. Truman is standing behind a desk, saying, "It was right here when I left for St. Louis!" Standing beside him is William Boyle (left) and John Steelman (right), sweating and looking through a file cabinet and emptying a trash container. Kneeling on the floor are Charles Ross and General Harry Vaughan. Vaughan is pointing at a small creature coming out of a hole in the floor.

The Trumans and Their Guests at the Little White House in Key West, Florida

Members of President Harry S. Truman's vacation party pose for a photograph at the 10th Presidential trip to Key West. First row, left to right: Harold Enarson, John R. Steelman, first Lady Bess Truman, President Harry S. Truman, Margaret Truman, William Hassett, Irving Perlmeter. Second row, left to right: Eben Ayers, David H. Stowe, General Wallace Graham, General Harry Vaughan, Joseph Short, Admiral Robert Dennison, General Robert Landry, Philleo Nash, and Charles W. Jackson. Same as photo 67-3204, 67-3205,67-3204. This photograph is inscribed "Kew West, Florida. December 4, 1951."

President Harry S. Truman meets with Arkansas officials

President Truman shakes hands with Governor-elect Sidney McMath of Arkansas and Leslie L. Biffle, a native of Arkansas, when the President and other officials dropped in on the Arkansas Society State Meeting today in Washington, D.C. Left to Right; John Steelman, Assistant to the President; President Harry S. Truman; John Snyder, Secretary of the Treasury; Governor-elect McMath; and Leslie L. Biffle, slated to become the Secretary of the Senate. From: Houston Post.

President Harry S. Truman Poses with Cabinet Members

President Harry S. Truman poses today with members of the cabinet at the White House. Left to right around the table: Charles Sawyer, commerce; John R. Steelman, assistant to president; Henry H. Fowler, defense mobilizer; W. Averell Harriman, Mutual Security Director; Maurice Tobin, labor; Charles Brannan, agriculture, Jesse Donaldson, Postmaster General; Robert Lovett, defense; Dean Acheson, state; President Truman; John Snyder, treasury; James McGranary, Attorney General; Oscar Chapman, interior. From: Houston Post.