Truman Addresses Joint Session of Congress

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President Harry S. Truman speaks to a joint session of Congress regarding wage and price controls. Seated front row, left to right: Senator Elmer Thomas; Senator Claude Pepper; Senator George Aiken; Senator Elbert Thomas; Senator Homer Capehart; Senator Bourke Hickenlooper; Senator Homer Ferguson; Senator Clyde Reed; Senator Kenneth Wherry; Senator Robert Taft; Senator Alben Barkley; Senator Wallace White; Secretary of State George Marshall; Secretary of the Treasury John Snyder; Secretary of Defense James Forrestal; Attorney General Tom Clark; Postmaster General Robert E. Hannegan; Secretary of Agriculture Clinton Anderson; Secretary of Commerce W. Averell Harriman; Secretary of Labor Lewis Schwellenbach. All others unidentified.

Date(s)

November 17, 1947

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Truman Addresses Joint Session of Congress