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President Harry S. Truman's 305th news conference, held in the Indian Treaty Room (Room 474) in the Executive Office Building at 10:35 a. m. on Thursday, May 22, 1952. Questions discussed include: the settlement of the railroad strike, and appreciation for John Steelman's work; the steel settlement; tidelands; the McCarran immigration bill; General Matthew Ridgway's remarks on Korea; the President's speech at the convention of the Americans for Democratic Action; the Senate confirmation of James McGranery for Attorney General; the clean-up of the Justice Department; the Senate Banking Committee delimiting the Walsh-Healey Act. Names mentioned include: President Grover Cleveland; Dwight D. Eisenhower; W. Averell Harriman; President Rutherford B. Hayes; President Andrew Jackson; President Thomas Jefferson; Estes Kefauver; President Abraham Lincoln; James P. McGranery; Frank McKinney; Admiral Chester Nimitz; General Matthew Ridgway; President Theodore Roosevelt; Charles Sawyer; President Woodrow Wilson; Pat McCarran; and John Steelman.