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President Truman Signs National Security Amendments Bill

73-3205
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73-3205
8x10 inches (21x26 cm)
Black & White

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Description
President Harry S. Truman at his desk in the Oval Office, signing H.R. 5632, the National Security Act Amendments of 1949, which converted the National Military Establishment into a new Department of Defense and made other changes in the national security system. From left to right: Senator Virgil Chapman, unidentified (behind Chapman), Senator Richard Russell, unidentified military officer, unidentified man (behind officer), Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson, General Omar Bradley, unidentified, Congressman Dewey Short, Congressman Carl Vinson, Secretary of the Army Gordon Gray, unidentified, Secretary of the Air Force Stuart Symington (partly obscured), Under Secretary of Defense Stephen Early, and Secretary of the Navy Francis Matthews.
Date(s)
August 10, 1949