Executive advisory bodies

Session of the Executive Committee of Inter American Statistical Institute meeting in Mexico City. Halbert L. Dunn is seated third from left, Stuart A. Rice is seated fifth from left. Others are unidentified.

Session of Executive Committee of Inter American Statistical Institute meeting in Mexico City. Halbert L. Dunn is standing. Stuart A. Rice is seated, fourth from left. Others are unidentified.

President Harry S. Truman (left) receives the final report from the Commission on the Health Needs of the Nation from the Chairman of the Commission, Dr. Paul Magnuson (right). All others in the background are unidentified.

President Harry S. Truman discuses national aviation policy in his office with members of the Air Policy Commission. From Left to Right; Palmer Hoyt, George P. Baker, John A. McCone, President Truman, S. Paul Johnston, Thomas K. Finletter, and Arthur D. Whitesides.

President Harry S. Truman (seated) with the members of the Air Policy Commission discussing the public report on the National Aviation Policy. Standing, from left to right: Palmer Hoyt, George Baker, John McCone, S. Paul Johnston, Thomas K. Finletter, and Arthur Whiteside.

President Harry S. Truman meets with several members of the United States Advisory Committee on Education Exchange. Seated in the center is President Harry S. Truman. Standing behind him from left to right are Karl T. Compton, Mark Starr, Assistant Secretary of State George V. Allen, Dr. Bennett H. Branscomb, and Martin McGuire. From the scrapbooks of Matthew Connelly, volume 4.

General James H. Doolittle presents the report of the President's Airport Commission to President Harry S. Truman. Standing, left to right: Mr. Charles F. Horne, General Robert Landry, and Paul Johnston, Seated: Dr. Jerome Hunsaker, President Harry S. Truman, and General James Doolittle. This photograph appeared in the June 1952 issue of LIFE Magazine.

President Harry S. Truman (seated) meets for the first time with members of the President's Commission on Universal Military Training. Standing behind President Truman are, from left to right: Reverend Edmund Walsh, Karl Compton, Anna Rosenberg, Sam Rosenman, Truman K. Gibson, Joseph E. Davies, and Daniel Poling.

President Harry S. Truman meets with members of the all-civilian Atomic Energy Commission. From left to right: Sumner Pike, Lewis Strauss, President Truman, Chairman David Lilienthal, Robert F. Bacher, and William W. Waymack.

A portrait photograph of Nelson L. Smith, former Chairman of the Federal Power Commission. The photo is autographed in the lower right corner: "To my friend and colleague Mon C. Wallgren with best wishes Nelson Lee Smith."