Foreign aid

Wearing a big grin, President Harry S. Truman reaches for the inkwell with one of his pens that he used to sign the Foreign Aid Bill. From: Houston Post.

Photograph of an advertisement created by the Advertising Council for CARE (Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe). Caption: "Our friends abroad are hungry! Send $10. CARE, New York. CARE is non-profit Government approved."

Photograph of an advertisement created by the Advertising Council for CARE (Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe). Caption: "Our friends abroad are hungry! Send $10. CARE, New York is non-profit Government approved."

Left to right: President Harry S. Truman, Secretary of State George C. Marshall, Paul Hoffmann, and Averell Harriman confer in the Oval Office on the Marshall Plan.

On the quays in Bordeaux, unloading wheat coming from America after World War I. From an album of Lorain H. Cunningham, who served in the 129th Field Artillery during World War I and was a friend of Harry S. Truman.

Paul Porter (right), former Federal Communications Commission Chairman and Office of Price Administration Chief, reviewing papers with former Governor of New York Herbert Lehman, prior to testifying on the Marshall Plan before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. From: Beth Gore

President Harry S. Truman is shown as he addressed the nation. The President asked Congress for nearly eight billion dollars in new foreign aid funds. Donor: Hennepin County Historical Society

The Senate by a vote of 67 to 23 passed the Greek-Turkey Aid Bill before passing the $400,000,000 program to the House for final action. Before passage, the Senate had accepted an amendment from Senator Edwin C. Johnson (D), Colorado, right, declaring that the U.S. would not undertake to underwrite the U.S. Oil Company agreements with other Middle East nations. Shown with Johnson is Texas Senator Tom Connally. From: Beth Gore

President Harry S. Truman addressed a joint session of Congress asking for $400 million in aid to Greece. Left to right are President Truman, Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg, and Representative Joseph W. Martin, Jr. Donor: Hennepin County Historical Society