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President Harry S. Truman Greets News Photographers at the Boca Chica Airport, Florida

2012-556
Accession Number
2012-556
4x5 inches (10x13 cm)
Black & White
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NAID 350381742
Keywords
Journalists
Presidents
Presidential vacations
Reporters and reporting
Naval officers
HST Keywords
Truman - Trips - Key West - 1949; Truman - Press - TV - Key West
People Pictured
Nixon, Robert G., journalist
Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972
Leahy, William D. (William Daniel), 1875-1959
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Credit:
U.S. Navy

Harry S. Truman Library & Museum.

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Description
President Harry S. Truman greets news photographers upon their late arrival at the Boca Chica airport with an inquiry as to why they were late and "interviews" Robert G. Nixon, President of the White House Correspondents Association (in front of Truman). Standing behind President Truman, in uniform, is Admiral William Leahy. Others are unidentified. From: Naval Photo Center, sent to the Truman Library by the National Archives. Original 4x5 negative.
Date(s)
March 6, 1949