Friends and associates

Former President Harry S. Truman cutting his cake at his seventy-eighth birthday party luncheon at the President Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri. From right: former Attorney General James P. McGranery, former Secretary of the Treasury John Snyder, Henry Talge, Truman, and Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson. Standing in the background behind Johnson is artist Thomas Hart Benton. Others unidentified.

Former President Harry S. Truman (left) at his seventy-eighth birthday party at the President Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri, standing next to his birthday cake. On the right in the background is businessman Henry Talge.

From left: former Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder, former President Harry S. Truman, and Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson at Truman's seventy-eighth birthday party luncheon at the President Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri.

From left: former Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder, former President Harry S. Truman, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, and Truman Library archivist Willie L. Harriford (background) at Truman's seventy-eighth birthday party luncheon at the President Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri.

Frank Spina (second from right) talks to Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson (third from right) at former President Harry S. Truman's seventy-eighth birthday party luncheon at the President Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri. From left to right are: Robert Dennison, former Postmaster General Jesse Donaldson, former Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder, former President Harry S. Truman, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, Frank Spina, and news photographer Joe Adams.

Frank Spina (fourth from right, foreground) greeting former President Harry S. Truman at Truman's seventy-eighth birthday luncheon at the President Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri. In the picture from left to right are: Sidney Souers, George Killion, Louis Truman, Edwin A. Locke, Jr., Robert Dennison, former Postmaster General Jesse Donaldson, Frank Spina, former Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder, former President Harry S. Truman, and Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson.

Unidentified foreign exchange students greeting former President Harry S. Truman (far left, shaking hands) at his seventy-eighth birthday party at the President Hotel in Kansas City. Man on right is businessman Henry Talge.

Colonel Robert Adams (left) and General Wallace Graham (center) dine at the People to People program at the Truman Library. All others are unidentified.

General Wallace Graham (second from left) and former President Harry S. Truman (second from right) with others at the People to People program at the Truman Library. All others are unidentified.

General Wallace Graham (second from left), Colonel Robert Adams (center), and former President Harry S. Truman (second from right), with others at the People to People program at the Truman Library. All others are unidentified.