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Washington D. C. Adlai Stevenson, the Democratic standard bearer in the 1956 presidential elections, reaches across the breakfast table today to shake hands with former President Harry S. Truman. Between the two is Democratic National Chairman Paul Butler. They met at a breakfast of the Democratic Advisory Council. From: Houston Post.

Former President Harry S. Truman is shown receiving his membership card to the Eastern Jackson County Young Democrats of 1960. He is in the Harry S. Truman Library. Oversize mounted 16x20 original photo in oversize file. From: Transferred from museum collection 5/28/75. It was from the Harry S. Truman estate 12/3/74.

Edward H. Foley, Under Secretary of the Treasury, speaks before the Democratic Club of the District of Columbia. The other people in the photograph are unidentified.

President Harry S. Truman (left) shown in the oval office with Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn (seated). Standing L to R are Young Democrats Mrs. Roy Baker, Roy Baker (President) and Mrs. Theodora Hansen (Vice President).

One of a series of photos showing an early post-presidency trip to Kentucky for a Democratic campaign dinner. Former President Harry S. Truman shaking hands with unidentified man, in front of a picture of the Kentucky TVA Dam.

President Harry S. Truman is seated at his Oval Office desk with New York State Democratic officials and college students who completed internships with the Democratic State Committee of New York. Standing, from left to right: Dr. Josephine M. Pisani, Professor of Political Science, Queens College; Paul Fitzpatrick, Chairman, New York State Democratic Committee; Donald Bowes; Donald M. Clark; Joyce Martin, Assistant Research Director, New York State Democratic Committee; Dorothy Hayes; Ira Harkavy; John Hart, Jr.; Representative Walter Lynch.

Political cartoon by Clifford Berryman in which J. Howard McGrath (left) holds a gun and says to Harry S. Truman "I'm going to run those Dixiecrats out of here." Truman replied "I'm afraid they've already gone, Howard." An inscription from the cartoonist to Senator McGrath says "My Dear Senator, with my best wishes, be sure that gun doesn't kick back, some of them do. C. K. Berryman, Washington Star, September 5, 1948."

Political cartoon by Cargill illustrating the split in the Democratic party in 1948, showing Harry S. Truman straddling a donkey split in two called the Democratic Party. They are on both sides of a cliff entitled "Wallace Split." This refers to Henry Wallace's run in 1948 for the Progressive Party.

Washington, D.C. View of crowded ballroom here tonight as some 3,000 Democrats filled this room and banquet room on the floor below to hear former President Harry S. Truman, center, give the Republican party and the Eisenhower administration a tongue-lashing. The dinner, at $100-a-plate, was tendered by the Democrats of America as a tribute to the former President and Mrs. Bess Truman. It also kicked off the 1958 congressional election campaign. From: Houston Post.

Washington, D. C. Former President Harry S. Truman and Governor Orval Faubus of Arkansas shake hands across the flower-decorated head table at a Democratic dinner party tonight. Governor Faubus, a central figure in the Little Rock school integration controversy, had this to say about Truman: "I think he's a wonderful guy." From: Houston Post.