President Harry S. Truman's special message to a joint session of Congress urging legislation for industrial peace. The President spoke shortly after 4 pm. The address was carried on a nationwide radio broadcast.
President Harry S. Truman's remarks to the press regarding the settlement of the steel strike, 4:45 p.m.
President Harry S. Truman's 303rd news conference, held in the Indian Treaty Room (Room 474) in the Executive Office Building at 10:35 a.m. on Thursday, May 8, 1952. Topics discussed include: President Truman's new glasses; congratulations on his birthday; remembering VE-Day (May 8, 1945) and the progress of world peace since then; current dangers of the U.S.