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President Harry S. Truman's remarks at a Masonic Breakfast. The President spoke at 8:55 a.m. in the Presidential Room of the Statler Hotel in Washington, DC. In his opening words he referred to frank Land, founder of the Order of DeMolay and chairman of the breakfast, and Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Later the President referred to Joseph H. Short, Secretary to the President, Charles G. Ross, who until his death on December 5, 1950, had served as Secretary to the President, William D. Hassett, Correspondence Secretary to the President, John R. Steelman, The Assistant to the President, Charles S. Murphy, Special Counsel to the President, and Gordon Dean, Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission. President Truman was a thirty-third degree Mason and Past Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of the State of Missouri.