Legislative hearings

Washington, D. C. Former President Harry S. Truman shakes hands with a line of admirers as he arrives at the House Foreign Affairs committee room to testify today on foreign aid legislation. Maj. Gen. Harry Vaughan, his former military aide, is beside him. From: Houston Post.

Washington, D. C. Former President Harry S. Truman, making one of his rare appearances on Capitol Hill before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee, speaks about revoking the 22nd amendment to the Constitution which limits a chief executive to two terms in office. From: Houston Post.

Washington, D. C. Former President Harry S. Truman, making one of his rare appearances on Capitol Hill before a congressional committee, reflects three moods as he testifies today before a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee. He was alternately talkative, stern, and smiling as he discussed the question of revoking the 22nd amendment to the Constitution which limits a chief executive to two terms in office. From: Houston Post.

Washington, D. C. Former President Harry S. Truman and his former Special Counsel Charles Murphy of Washington, D. C. prepare testimony Mr. Truman will give before the House Banking and Currency Committee Monday. From: Houston Post.

Washington D. C. Former President Harry S. Truman today tells a House of Representatives Administration Subcommittee he hopes to set a precedent for Chief Executives to give the government both their official papers and the gifts they receive in office. Harry S. Truman put a 21-million-dollar valuation on the material relating to his administration going into government possession next month. From: Houston Post.

Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson (right) told Senator Charles W. Tobey (left) on the Senate Banking Committee, during testimony before that committee, that "We may have to use limited price control on commodities affecting the cost of living" if inflation is to be curbed.

Attorney General Tom Clark (center) speaks with Representative Karl E. Mundt (left) and Representative Richard M. Nixon (right) during Clark's testimony before the House of Representatives' Un-American Activities Committee. Clark discussed his opposition to proposals to ban the Communist Party in the United States.

John L. Lewis, President of the United Mine Workers, testifies before the Truman Committee on war production. Senator Harry S. Truman, chairman of the committee, center right. From: Photos used in the 1984 Centennial Exhibit.

George E. Allen faces a Senate inquiry into his background and qualifications for the job on the Reconstruction Finance Corporation Board. From the scrapbooks of Matt Connelly, Vol 2.