Presidential press secretaries

President Harry S. Truman (front row, standing, left) shakes hands with Connie Mack (front row standing, center) as Margaret Truman (left, seated) and First Lady Bess Truman (2nd from left) look on at the opening game at Griffith Stadium. Standing next to Connie Mack is Vice President Alben Barkley. Seated behind President Truman is Press Secretary Charles Ross. From: Harry S. Truman Scrapbook.

President Harry S. Truman shakes the hand of a Congressional Medal of Honor recipient shown in a wheelchair, right center. Other recipients and guests can be seen looking on during the ceremony in the East Room of the White House. Numerous photographers are present directly behind the president. Press Secretary Charles Ross is standing by the candelabra next to the door in the background. First Lieutenant Cecil H. Bolton is seated second from left, front row.

President Harry S. Truman, center, decorates a soldier during a Congressional Medal of Honor presentation ceremony in the East Room of the White House, as other recipients and guests look on. In the background, standing directly in front of the candelabra, is Press Secretary Charles Ross. Standing in front of the flag, leaning over the table of medals is Major General Harry Vaughan. All others are unidentified.

Left to right: Canada's Prime Minister Mackenzie King, President Harry S. Truman, and the Chief of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, waiting to speak at a press conference held on the lawn of the Seignory Club at Monte-Bello, Ontario. The President is in Canada on a three-day trip where he addressed a joint session of the Canadian Senate and Parliament at Ottawa. Standing directly behind the President is Ray Atherton, U.S. Ambassador to Canada. Standing on the left is Charles Ross, the President's Press Secretary. (See also 65-581 through 606.) From: Bjorn Bjornson.

President Truman in first row at a Washington Senators baseball game. Seated next to him at right are Admiral William Leahy and Press Secretary Charles Ross. On the base of the stereograph is the typed quote "The President: You see, Bess, these balls aren't as good as the kind I used at Noland." From; Lowell Mason's Stereographic Library, Annual Baseball Outing, Volumes I and II. Photographs are of Baseball, Clam and Chowder Club of the United States Senate, of which Harry S. Truman was a member.

Aboard the presidential yacht Williamsburg, President Harry S. Truman signs a veto to Congress's Tax Reduction Bill. Looking on are Charles Ross, Presidential Press Secretary (left) and William J. Hopkins, Executive Clerk of the White House (right). From: Houston Post.

Reporters quickly exit the room to file stories after a press conference during President Harry S. Truman's vacation trip to Key West, Florida. President Harry S. Truman (standing in front of fireplace, in suit) stops to chat with one of the men. Standing behind President Truman is Press Secretary Joseph Short and Correspondence Secretary William Hassett. All others are unidentified.

All hands turn out to welcome Press Secretary Charles Ross and Matthew Connelly to Key West, Florida. From left to right: Donald Dawson, Wallace Graham, Charles Ross (back to camera), Harry Vaughan (wearing long-sleeved shirt, obscured by Connelly), Matthew Connelly (facing right), unidentified man in striped shirt, Margaret Truman, unidentified man, John Steelman (mostly obscured by Truman), President Harry S. Truman, General Robert Landry, Governor Mon Wallgren, and Admiral Robert Dennison.

From left to right, First Lady Bess Truman, Margaret Truman, and President Harry S. Truman are greeted by Captain Cecil Adell as they step off the plane at the Boca Chica airport in Florida. The President and family will continue on to Key West to begin their vacation. Visible in the background, second from the right, is Press Secretary Charles Ross. All others are unidentified.

President Harry S. Truman and other White House staff members congratulate General Robert Landry upon his promotion. This picture was taken while Truman was on vacation in Key West, Florida outside his residence on the naval base. Front row, left to right: Colonel Francis Williams, General Harry Vaughan, General Robert Landry, President Truman, Admiral William Leahy, Admiral Robert Dennison, and Sidney Souers.