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President Harry S. Truman Signing an Executive Order with Members of the Atomic Energy Commission

64-157
Accession Number
64-157
8.5 x 6.625 inches
Black & White
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NAID 343789787
Keywords
Administrative agencies
Armed forces officers
Cabinet officers
Nuclear weapons
Presidents
Nuclear energy
HST Keywords
Truman - Signing - Documents - Atomic Energy
People Pictured
Lilienthal, David Eli, 1899-1981
Patterson, Robert Porter, 1891-1952
Pike, Sumner T. (Sumner Tucker), 1891-1976
Strauss, Lewis Lichtenstein, 1896-1974
Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972
Waymack, W. W. (William Wesley), 1888-1960
Groves, Leslie R., 1896-1970
Nichols, Kenneth David, 1907-2000
Wilson, Carroll Louis, 1910-1983
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Description
In the presence of the Atomic Energy Commission, President Harry S. Truman signs an Executive Order that ended the wartime Manhattan Project and transferred its responsibilities to civilian authority. From left to right, Carroll Wilson, President Harry S. Truman, David Lilienthal, Sumner Pike, Colonel K.D. Nichols, Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson, General Leslie Groves, Lewis L. Strauss, and William W. Waymack. From the Scrapbooks of Matt Connelly, Volume 2.
Date(s)
December 31, 1946