Presidential press secretaries

Portrait of Eben Ayers.

Correspondence Secretary William D. Hassett, Appointments Secretary Matthew J. Connelly, and Press Secretary Charles G. Ross posing for photo underneath a photograph of President Harry S. Truman. Photo is autographed by each man. Original is oversize. "Jackie Martin" is inscribed above Ross' signature.

President Harry S. Truman (left) and Press Secretary Charlie Ross (right) in a car on the way to the beach while on vacation in Key West, Florida.

Group seated for a birthday luncheon for President Harry S. Truman. L to R: Charles Ross; unidentified woman; James Webb; Bess Truman; Charles Murphy; unidentified woman; Harry Vaughan.

President Harry S. Truman and the rest of the presidential party pose for a photograph while on vacation in Key West, Florida. Front row, left to right: John Steelman, First Lady Bess Truman, President Truman, Margaret Truman, and William Hassett. Back row, left to right: Stephen Spingarn, General Robert Landry, Admiral Robert Dennison, Stanley Woodward, Charlie Ross, General Harry Vaughan, General Wallace Graham, and David Niles.

President Harry S. Truman has a staff meeting with, from left to right, Admiral Robert Dennison, William Hassett, John Steelman, Joseph Short, and Irving Perlmeter while on vacation in Key West, Florida.

Soviet Prime Minister Joseph Stalin (foreground, left) and President Harry S. Truman (foreground, right) during the Potsdam conference. Behind them are: V. N. Pavlov, Russian interpreter; Captain James K. Vardaman (partly obscured by Pavlov); Andrei Gromyko, Soviet Ambassador to the United States; and Charles Ross, Presidential Press Secretary (behind Gromyko).

Harry S. Truman and Joseph Stalin meeting at Potsdam. From left to right, row 1 : Joseph Stalin, Harry S. Truman, Soviet Ambassador Andrei Gromyko, Secretary of State James Byrnes, and Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov. Second row: General Harry Vaughan, interpreter Charles Bohlen, interpreter V. N. Pavlov (mostly obscured by Truman), Captain James K. Vardaman, and Charles Ross (partially obscured).

Press Secretary Charlie Ross informing reporters that Wake Island is to be the scene of a conference between President Truman and General Douglas MacArthur.

From left to right, Press Secretary Charles Ross, General Douglas MacArthur (the back of his head), Admiral Arthur Radford, President Harry S. Truman, Secretary of the Army Frank Pace, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Omar Bradley at Wake Island. President Truman is presenting a citation to General MacArthur. Others in the background are unidentified.