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Reception for Commander L. F. Rodgers

This is a photograph for a reception for Commander L.F. Rodgers, the Associate Director for the Detroit Insuring Office, part of the Federal Housing Administration. Commander Rodgers is not identified in the photo. There are a total of seventy-one unidentified men in the photo, including the Commander. The caption at the bottom, right corner of the photo reads: Reception for Commander L.F. Rodgers Associate Director, Detroit Insuring Office Federal Housing Administration, Barlum Hotel May 15, 1939.

President Truman Meets with Mobilization Committee of the NSRB

President Harry S. Truman (center, seated) is shown meeting with the Committee on Mobilization Policy of the National Security Resources Board (NSRB). Seated, left to right: Stuart Symington, Chairman, NSRB; President Truman; Anna Rosenberg, Assistant Secretary of Defense on Manpower. Standing, left to right: William Green, President, American Federation of Labor; Albert J. Hayes, President of International Association of Machinists; Hershel Newsom, Master, Farmers National Grange; Frank P.

President Truman accepting award from Hadassah

President Harry S. Truman accepts Henrietta Szold Award for distinguished humanitarian service from the National Hadassah organization. From left to right: Mrs. Samuel Rosensohn, New York Chairman of the Hadassah Medical Organization; Mrs. Rose Halprin, President of the National Hadassah; President Truman; Mrs. Raphael Tourover, Hadassah Washington Representative; and Mrs. Hannah Goldberg of New York, Hadassah National Secretary.

President Truman on Morning Walk

An assassination attempt the day before did not keep President Truman from taking his morning walk cane in hand through the streets of downtown Washington, D.C. Flanked by unidentified Secret Service men, the Chief Executive is shown walking down Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House. An automobile is in view beside them.

President Harry S. Truman Honors Members of White House Police Force

President Harry S. Truman, third from right, decorated the White House Police and Secret Service agents who prevented his assassination at Blair House on November 1, 1950. Left to right: Wounded policemen Private Joseph H. Downs and Private Donald Birdzell; Secretary of the Treasury John Snyder, whose department has jurisdiction over the White House Police and Secret Service; Cressie Coffelt, widow of the slain policeman Leslie Coffelt; Private Joseph O. Davidson; President Truman; and two Secret Service agents, Floyd Boring and Vincent P. Mroz.

President Harry S. Truman Awards the Medal of Honor

President Harry S. Truman presents the Congressional Medal of Honor to Marine Private First Class Luther Skaggs, Jr., of Henderson, Kentucky. This award was presented to this soldier and three others this day at a ceremony on the White House grounds. PFC Skaggs kept fighting for eight hours in the Guam landing, July, 1944, despite serious wounds which later cost him his left leg. Standing next to President Truman is Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal. Others in the background are unidentified.