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President Harry S. Truman signs H.R. 6454, the Federal Enforcement Agents Retirement bill at his desk in the Oval Office of the White House. The bill became Public Law 879 during the 80th Congress. Pictured left to right: Assistant Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization Service Willard F. Kelly; unidentified; Director of the Bureau of Prisons James V. Bennett; unidentified (mostly obscured); unidentified; Commissioner of Narcotics Harry J. Anslinger; unidentified; Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization Service Watson B. Miller; President Truman; Assistant General Counsel Stephen J. Spingarn; Treasury Secretary John Snyder; unidentified; Assistant Treasury Secretary Edward H. Foley; and unidentified. The photo has handwritten notations by Spingarn with "SJS" pointing to himself; and "Sec'y Snyder" pointing to Snyder.
The back is inscribed by Spingarn: "I was Treasury legislative counsel at this time (1948) and was in legislative charge of this bill. Steve Spingarn."