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President Harry S. Truman with Members of the President's Commission on Internal Security

President Harry S. Truman in the Oval Office with members of the President's Commission on Internal Security and Individual Rights on the occasion of their swearing-in ceremony. From left to right: Harvey S. Firestone, Jr.; Mrs. Anna Lord Strauss; unidentified man (behind Mrs. Strauss); Chairman of the Commission, Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz; President Truman; Chief Justice Bolitha J. Laws of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia; Right Reverend Karl Morgan Block, Episcopal Bishop of California; Most Reverend Emmet M.

Truman Receiving Medal from Sesquicentennial Commission

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.

Truman Receiving Medal

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.

Truman With Members of the Commission on the Renovation of the Executive Mansion

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.

Lt. Col. Gail S. Carter, a Member of the U.S. Reparations Mission to Tokyo, Japan

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.)

U.S. Reparations Mission Staff at Victory Guest Club, Koenigstein, Germany

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, in Berlin

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).