Presidents

President Harry S. Truman (left) with Arthur M. Hill of the National Security Resources Board.

President Harry S. Truman receiving a Forget-Me-Not from Leona "Ginger" Leonard (age 4) to start the Disabled American Veterans Fund Campaign of 1947.

President Harry S. Truman (right) giving a speech to Congress. Behind President Truman, seated from left to right, is President of the Senate Pro Tempore Arthur H. Vandenberg (Michigan) and Speaker of the House Joseph W. Martin. In his address to Congress President Truman was asking for price and wage controls to reduce the high cost of living for Americans.

President Harry S. Truman (left) giving a speech to Congress. Behind President Truman, seated from left to right, is President of the Senate Pro Tempore Arthur H. Vandenberg (Michigan) and Speaker of the House Joseph W. Martin. In his address to Congress, President Truman was asking for price and wage controls to reduce the high cost of living for Americans.

President Harry S. Truman (left) giving a speech to Congress. Behind President Truman, seated from left to right, is President of the Senate Pro Tempore Arthur H. Vandenberg (Michigan) and Speaker of the House Joseph W. Martin. In his address to Congress President Truman was asking for price and wage controls to reduce the high cost of living for Americans.

Entertainer Harpo Marx (left) talks with President Harry S. Truman (right) at Fairfield Air Base in Suisan, California. President Truman stopped in California on his way to Wake Island to meet with General Douglas MacArthur. Harpo Marx was at the air base to entertain Korean War wounded hospitalized there. The photo is autographed: "I'm just wild about Harry, Harpo."

President Harry S. Truman (left) receives Red Cross pin from entertainer Bob Hope (right) to "kick off" 1948 American Red Cross campaign, with ex-ambassador to Japan Joseph C. Grew (center) looking on.

Movie stars and the Truman family participate in Roosevelt Birthday Ball activities at the White House. Left to Right: (back row) Jo Stafford, Eleanor Lambert, Angela Lansbury, Helen Sioussat, Eddie Bracken, Paul Henreid, Zachary Scott, Alexis Smith, Cesar Romero, and Lucy Monroe. Left to Right: (front row): Van Johnson, Ilene Woods, Diana Lynn, Margaret Truman, Margaret O'Brien, President Harry S. Truman, Bess Truman, and Constance Moore.

President Harry S. Truman delivers a campaign speech at Gilmore Stadium in Los Angeles, California. Seated in background L to R: Bess Wallace Truman, Ronald Reagan, Humphrey Bogart (partially obscured), unidentified, Lauren Bacall, George Jessel (with cigar).

An unidentified man throws a baseball. Harry S. Truman's head has been cut out of a photograph and used to cover the face of the man pictured.