Committees

President Harry S. Truman (seated, left) at his desk in the Oval Office, receiving a gold commemorative medal of the National Capital Sesquicentennial Commission from Nellie Tayloe Ross, Director of the U.S. Mint (seated, right). Also present are (left to right) Joseph C. McGarraghy, Chairman of the Commission; Carter Barron, Executive Vice Chairman; and Paul Massman, Sesquicentennial Manager.

President Harry S. Truman posing outside the newly renovated White House with members of the Commission on the Renovation of the Executive Mansion. Left to right: General Glen Edgerton, Representative J. Harry McGregor, Senator Kenneth McKellar, Mr. Richard Dougherty, President Harry S. Truman, Mr. Douglas Orr, Representative Louis C. Rabaut, Senator Edward Martin.

President Harry S. Truman (front row, fourth from right) posing outside the newly renovated White House with members of the Commission on the Renovation of the Executive Mansion and other dignitaries.

Lt. Col. Gail S. Carter, Santa Fe, New Mexico, a member of the U.S. Reparations Mission to Tokyo, Japan. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors.)

Dr. Ernest L. Klein "relaxing" in Seoul, Korea. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

Frankfurt, Germany. Pictured is U.S. Reparations Mission staff member Marlin Fenical. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-1947 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

From Left to Right: Mr. Sachse, George Schulgen, and Marlin Fenical relaxing at Victory Guest Club, Koenigstein, Germany. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-1947 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

A.B. Einig and Earl Shaner, Members of the U.S. Reparations Mission, relax in Berlin, Germany. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

President Harry S. Truman (seated) in the Oval Office with members of the National Conference on Prevention and Control of Juvenile Delinquency. Standing, left to right: Sargent Shriver, Attorney General Tom Clark, Oscar Ewing, G. Howland Shaw, Katharine Lenroot, Eunice Kennedy, Frank Weil, and John W. Andrews.

President Harry S. Truman (seated) in the oval office with members of the National Conference on Prevention and Control of Juvenile Delinquency to sign a proclamation entitled "Prevention and Control of Juvenile Delinquency." Standing, left to right: Sargent Shriver, Attorney General Tom Clark, Oscar Ewing, G. Howland Shaw, Katharine Lenroot, Eunice Kennedy, Frank Weil, and John Andrews.