Books and reading

President Harry S. Truman (left) accepts a new Revised Standard Version of the Bible from Dean Emeritus of the Yale Divinity School, Dr. Luther A. Weigle (right), in a Rose Garden ceremony at the White House. Dr. Weigle gave the book on behalf of the National Council of Churches as the chairman of the American Standard Bible Committee. Fifteen years of labor by 32 Protestant scholars went into the crafting of the RSV Bible, which was written in contemporary language. Other people are unidentified.

In the Oval Office of the White House, President Harry S. Truman receives the gift of a first edition book, Kentucky on the March, a story of social progress in Kentucky, from Vice President Alben Barkley and the book's author, Harry W. Schacter.