Presidents

President Harry S. Truman with Mrs. Bess Wallace Truman (center back, wearing large white corsage) standing at the podium at the Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner at the Mayflower Hotel. A second Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner was also held at the Statler Hotel.

President Harry S. Truman examines "Honey," one of the horses used for a coast-to-coast horseback ride with riders Ned Kennedy and Cecil Cary.

President Harry S. Truman (left) and Secretary of the Treasury John Snyder (right) holding a "Buy Bonds Today!" poster.

President Harry S. Truman being presented a Gold Plaque by delegation of the Golden Jubilee for West New York, New Jersey. From left to right, Harry J. Swensen, Mayor Wilbur J. McGowan, former Mayor Joseph Stilz, President Truman, Rep. Edward J. Hart and George Rosenberg.

President Harry S. Truman and dignitaries facing the Lincoln Memorial in the foreground with the crowd in the background. From left to right, (backs to the camera) Ulysses S. Grant III, Mrs. Bess Truman, President Harry S. Truman, Admiral William Leahy, General Harry Vaughan and W. Elkins Reed.

President Harry S. Truman at the podium waving to the crowd attending the Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner at the Mayflower Hotel with unidentified attendees applauding in the background.

President Harry S. Truman posed with top-ranking Boy Scouts from all regions of the country in honor of Boy Scout week and was given a parchment and statuette. From left to right: Richard Goodrich, James F. McIntyre, Dale Gallagher, Morris L. Frye, Joseph E. Melton, Jack Brader, Daniel L. Soss, President Harry S. Truman, Myron T. Shervheim, John C. Wyatt, Thomas G. Sage, Reymond W. Schwab and Karl Young.

President Harry S. Truman (center) with the captain of the Coast Guard cutter Courier, Captain Oscar C. B. Wev (right). The Courier is a floating radio transmitter used by the Voice of America. The man on the left is unidentified, but may be Dr. Wilson Compton, Administrator of the U. S. International Information Administration.

President Harry S. Truman speaking from the deck of the Coast Guard cutter Courier, a floating radio transmitter used by the Voice of America. President Truman's speech regarding the Soviet Union and Communism was broadcast over the Voice of America and translated into 45 different languages.

President Harry S. Truman (left) with Secretary of State James F. Byrnes (center) and General Walter Bedell Smith (right), the newly appointed Ambassador to the Soviet Union.