President Harry S. Truman Reads the Japanese Surrender Message

President Harry S. Truman reads the Japanese surrender message from the Oval Office at the White House, with Cabinet members and others also present. In the front row, from left to right, are Admiral William Leahy, Secretary of State James Byrnes, President Truman, and former Secretary of State Cordell Hull. In the second row, from left to right, are War Production Board Director Julius Krug, Foreign Economic Administration Director Leo Crowley, Major General Philip Fleming, Office of Economic Stabilization Administrator William Davis, Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion Director John Snyder, Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal, Secretary of the Treasury Fred Vinson, Attorney General Tom C. Clark, Secretary of Labor Lewis Schwellenbach, National Housing Agency Administrator John Blandford, and Postmaster General Robert Hannegan. This photo is from the album "The President and his Cabinet," from John W. Snyder.