President Harry S. Truman invited the media into the newly renovated White House to give a televised tour of the work. Representatives from NBC, CBS, and ABC accompanied the president on the tour: Bryson Rash, Frank Bourgholtzer and Walter Cronkite. This recording is a radio adaptation of that tour. In two parts.
President Harry S. Truman's remarks to a group of students from Kansas high schools. The President spoke at 3:05 p.m. in the Rose Garden at the White House. In his opening remarks he referred to Frank F. Eckdall, Commander of the Kansas Department of Veterans of foreign Wars, who introduced him to the students.
President Harry S. Truman's 300th news conference, held in the auditorium of the National Museum of Natural History (U.S.), Washington, D.C., at 4:30 p.m., on Thursday, April 17, 1952. The news conference was held for the American Society of Newspaper Editors as well as the regular White House newspaper correspondents. Topics discussed include: introduction and statement by the President's Secretary, Joseph H. Short, on press protocol; statement of appreciation to the President by Alexander F. Jones, of the Syracuse Herald-Journal, President of the American Society of Newspaper Editors.