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It was "good-bye Harry" as Mrs. Harry Truman kissed her husband (President Harry S. Truman) as he ended his Christmas holiday and returned from Independence, Missouri to Washington, D. C. The President's daughter, Margaret (not pictured), also watched her dad take off.

Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley (left) and President Harry S. Truman (right) by airplane.

President Harry S. Truman (right) congratulating new Postmaster General Jesse Donaldson. President Truman was an unexpected guest at a dinner given in Washington by Post Office employees in honor of the new Postmaster General.

New York City mail carriers leave the General Post Office in the rain with another load of Christmas mail.

Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley, reparations commissioner, is shown in his car just after his arrival at National Airport in Washington, DC, July 19, 1946. Pauley visited sixteen countries as President Harry S. Truman's personal representative on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47, the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors.

Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley (left) and President Harry S. Truman (right). They appear to be by an airplane.

Vice President Harry S. Truman points out the new sign over his door in the Senate office building to his daughter, Margaret Truman. From: New York Herald Tribune

Charles Raynor (left), U.S. State Department Chairman and Sir William Brown (right), K.C.B., K.C.M.G., C.B.E., Secretary of the Civil Defense Department and head of the British Delegation at the Discussion between the United States and United Kingdom on the Petroleum Question at the State Department in Washington, D.C.

Men at the State Department prior to discussing the preliminary points on petroleum questions between the United States and the United Kingdom. From left to right: Commodore A. F. Carter, U.S. Navy; Commodore A. W. Clarke, Chief of Staff to British Admiralty Delegation to Washington; and Brigadier General Howard Peckham, U.S. Army, Representing the War Department.

Men at the State Department prior to discussing the preliminary points on petroleum questions between the United States and the United Kingdom. From left to right: Commodore A.F. Carter, U.S. Navy; Commodore A.W. Clarke, Chief of Staff to British Admiralty Delegation to Washington; and Brigadier General Howard Peckham, U.S. Army, Representing the War Department.