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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 with National Security Council

President Harry S. Truman with members of the National Security Council. From left to right, clockwise around the table: Assistant Secretary of the Air Force Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney; Secretary of the Army Kenneth Royall; Executive Secretary of the National Security Council Sidney Souers; National Security Resources Board Chairman Arthur M. Hill; Director of Central Intelligence Roscoe Hillenkoetter; Secretary of Defense James Forrestal; Secretary of State George C. Marshall; President Truman; Under Secretary of the Navy W. John Kenney. The two men seated at the back are Major General A.

Truman with National Security Council

President Harry S. Truman with members of the National Security Council. From left to right, clockwise around the table: Assistant Secretary of the Air Force Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney; Secretary of the Army Kenneth Royall; Executive Secretary of the National Security Council Sidney Souers; National Security Resources Board Chairman Arthur M. Hill; Director of Central Intelligence Roscoe Hillenkoetter; Secretary of Defense James Forrestal; Secretary of State George C. Marshall; President Truman; Under Secretary of the Navy W. John Kenney. The two men seated at the back are Major General A.

Truman with National Security Council

President Harry S. Truman with members of the National Security Council. From left to right, clockwise around the table: Assistant Secretary of the Air Force Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney; Secretary of the Army Kenneth Royall; Executive Secretary of the National Security Council Sidney Souers; National Security Resources Board Chairman Arthur M. Hill; Director of Central Intelligence Roscoe Hillenkoetter; Secretary of Defense James Forrestal; Secretary of State George C. Marshall; President Truman; Under Secretary of the Navy W. John Kenney. The two men seated at the back are Major General A.

President Harry S. Truman Receives the Committee on Civil Rights Report

President Harry S. Truman is receiving a report from the Committee on Civil Rights from Charles Wilson. Standing, from left to right: Most Reverend Francis J. Haas, Roland B. Gittelsohn, Mrs. Sadie T. Alexander, James B. Carey, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., Mrs. M.E. Tilley, Channing H. Tobias, Charles Wilson, Boris Shishkin, Charles Luckman, and Francis P. Matthews.

Photo of Henry J. Kaiser appearing before the RFC

Photo of Henry J. Kaiser requesting the Reconstruction Finance Corporation write off $34,510,000 of the debt he owed the government for the Fontana, California steel plant. In return, he promised to raise $80,000,000 by private financing to double the steel-making capacity of the Fontana plant. He believed this would have had a material effect on relieving the existing steel shortage. From: Beth Gore.