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Truman Library Institute Board Meeting

Intermittent video with sound (rough sync) featuring portions of the 12th Annual Institute Board Meeting in the research room at the Harry S. Truman Library in Independence, MO. Meeting attendees include Ambassador Averell Harriman, Professor Thomas Blaisdell, Richard Ruetten, Theodore Wilson, Director of the Library and Institute Secretary Philip Brooks, Institute President Elmer Ellis, Institute Vice President Francis Heller, Cyrus Eaton, and Institute Treasurer Tom Evans.

Gordon Gray being sworn in as Director of the Psychological Strategy Board

Gordon Gray ( right), former Secretary of the Army and now President of the University of North Carolina, is sworn in as Director of the new Psychological Strategy Board. President Harry S. Truman is present at the ceremony. Frank K. Sanderson (left) administers the oath. The Board was set up to coordinate the activities of all government agencies in directing nonmilitary aspects of the Cold War.

President Harry S. Truman with the President's Advisory Commission on Universal Training

Chairman Karl T. Compton (second from left) gives President Harry S. Truman (seated) the Report of the President's Advisory Commission on Universal Training at the White House as other members of the commission look on. L to R: (standing) The Rev. Edmund Walsh, Vice-President of Georgetown Univ. in Washington; Chairman Compton, President of Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Judge Samuel Rosenman, former special counsel to the President; Mrs. Anna Rosenberg, Industrial Relations Consultant; Truman K. Gibson, Jr., Lawyer; and Dr. Daniel Poling, editor of Christian Herald.

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.

Road Too Narrow to Pass in Okinawa

The Statistical Advisory Group traveled north of Naha, Okinawa, Japan. Mr. Rice quotes: "A road such as I have not travelled over. Coming down through a cut, around a curve, singularly like a spot on the road from Petroplis, we met a truck coming up. The only way for the truck, when we'd given all the ground we could, was blocked by a telephone pole. The wire had been removed (to go over the top, I guess) so the two or three Okinawan truck drivers and helpers, cheered on by the girls in the back, set to work and pulled and dug up the pole.