Truman taking the oath of office

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Harry Goodwin

Washington Post

Harry S. Truman Library & Museum.

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Harry S. Truman taking the oath of office at the White House after the death of President Roosevelt. From left to right: Frances Perkins, Secretary of Labor; Henry Stimson, Secretary of War; Henry Wallace, Secretary of Commerce; Julius Krug, War Production Board Administrator; James Forrestal, Secretary of the Navy; Claude Wickard, Secretary of Agriculture; Francis McNamee, Department Chairman, War Manpower Commission; Francis Biddle, Attorney General; Harry S. Truman; Edward Stettinius, Secretary of State; Bess Wallace Truman; Harold Ickes, Secretary of the Interior; Harlan Stone, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court; Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the House; Fred Vinson, Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion; Representative Joseph Martin, House Minority Leader; Representative Robert Ramspeck, House Democratic Whip; Representative John McCormack, House Majority Leader.

Date(s)

April 12, 1945

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Truman taking the oath of office