Agriculture

Interior view, men seated around table with map of Russia in view. Identified on back of photograph as "Gov. Harriman conferring with Mr. [Vladimir] Matskevich Soviet Minister of Agriculture." Meeting took place in Moscow. Other individuals in photograph not identified. Charles W. Thayer accompanied W. Averell Harriman as a guide and confidant on the trip which took place May 12 - June 26, 1959. Harriman went as a special foreign correspondent for the North American Newspaper Alliance (NANA).

Former President Harry S. Truman (second from right) with Charles Brannan, former Secretary of Agriculture and General Counsel, National Farmers Union (right) during a press conference in Denver, Colorado. All other individuals are unidentified.

Former President Harry S. Truman (second from right) with Charles Brannan, former Secretary of Agriculture and General Counsel, National Farmers Union (right) during a press conference in Denver, Colorado. All other individuals are unidentified.

Former President Harry S. Truman (second from right) with Charles Brannan, former Secretary of Agriculture and General Counsel, National Farmers Union (right) during a press conference in Denver, Colorado. All other individuals are unidentified.

Former President Harry S. Truman (second from right) with Charles Brannan, former Secretary of Agriculture and General Counsel, National Farmers Union (right) during a press conference in Denver, Colorado. All other individuals are unidentified.

Secretary of Agriculture Charles Brannan (left) with Roger W. Fleming, Director of the Washington Office, American Farm Bureau Federation (center) and Don Parel, Assistant Director of the Washington Office, American Farm Bureau Federation (right) after Brannan was sworn into office. All other individuals are unidentified.

Secretary of Agriculture Charles Brannan (left) shaking hands with John H. Davis, Executive Secretary, National Council of Farmer Cooperatives (right) after Brannan was sworn into office. Also present in the background is Eda (Mrs. Charles) Brannan.

One of the first official duties of the newly appointed Secretary of Agriculture Charles Brannan (first row, center) was to sign the second largest wheat crop in history. Pictured: (front row, left to right) Nathan Koenig, Executive Assistant to the Secretary of Agriculture' Secretary Brannan; and William F. Callander, Chairman of the Federal Crop Reporting Board. (back row, left to right) Robert C. Tetro, Secretary of Outlook and Situation Board; Edward Paxton, Statistician for the State of Utah; J.E. Palleson, Secretary of the Board; Charles E.

Newly sworn in Secretary of Agriculture Charles Brannan (left) shaking hands with Russell Smith, Legislative Secretary, National Farmers Union (right). Standing in the background is Eda (Mrs. Charles) Brannan.

General Counsel for the National Farmers Union Charles Brannan (left) with an unidentified man during the taping of an episode of "Face the Nation."