Vice-Presidents

President Harry S. Truman (right) presents a Congressional Gold Medal, authorized by Congress, to Vice President Alben Barkley, in the Oval Office.

President Harry S. Truman holding up two baseballs, one in each hand, preparatory to throwing out the first ball at the opening game of the baseball season, at Griffith Stadium in Washington, D.C. Standing in the presidential box, from left to right, are: Admiral Robert Dennison, Margaret Truman, First Lady Bess W. Truman, President Truman, General Robert Landry, Philadelphia Athletics Manager Connie Mack, Washington Senators owner Clark Griffith (partly obscured), Vice-President Alben Barkley, and Washington Senators Manager Bucky Harris.

President Harry S. Truman throwing out the first ball at the opening game of the baseball season, at Griffith Stadium in Washington, D.C. Standing in the presidential box from left to right are: Margaret Truman, First Lady Bess W. Truman, President Truman, General Robert Landry, Philadelphia Athletics Manager Connie Mack, Washington Senators owner Clark Griffith (partly obscured), Vice-President Alben Barkley, and Washington Senators Manager Bucky Harris. All others are unidentified.

President Harry S. Truman shaking hands with Philadelphia Athletics Manager Connie Mack at the opening of baseball season at Griffith Stadium in Washington, D.C. Standing in the front row of the presidential box are, from left to right: President Truman, Connie Mack, Washington Senators owner Clark Griffith, and Vice-President Alben Barkley. Seated on the far left of the presidential box is First Lady Bess W. Truman. Seated in the second row of the presidential box is Press Secretary Charles Ross (second from left). All others are unidentified. See also 65-2254.

President Harry S. Truman shaking hands with Vice President Alben Barkley at Washington, D.C.'s Griffith Stadium, on the occasion of the opening game of the 1950 baseball season, as other dignitaries look on. Standing in the front row of the presidential box are, from left to right: Admiral Robert Dennison, Margaret Truman, First Lady Bess W. Truman, President Truman, Vice-President Barkley, and Washington Senators owner Clark Griffith (in light-colored hat, with his arm on Barkley). All others are unidentified.

President Harry S. Truman (behind chair) is talking Vice-President Alben Barkley (right) and Secretary of the Treasury John Snyder (second from right) at the head table during the Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner. The dinner was held at the National Guard Armory in Washington, D.C.

President Harry S. Truman shaking hands with newly sworn in Associate Justice Tom C. Clark. From left to right: Justice Clark, Vice President Alben Barkley, Attorney General J. Howard McGrath, Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn, President Truman, and Chief Justice Fred Vinson.

President Harry S. Truman shaking hands with Tom Clark in the White House Rose Garden, on the occasion of Clark's taking the oath of office as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. From left to right: Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer, Associate Justice Tom Clark, Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Vice-President Alben Barkley, Secretary of the Treasury John Snyder, Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn, President Truman, Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson, and Chief Justice Fred Vinson.

Tom C. Clark (foreground, left) being sworn in as Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court by Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson (foreground, right) with President Harry S. Truman (center) looking on. Standing in the background are, from left to right: Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn, Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer, Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder, Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson (partly obscured by Vinson), Vice-President Alben Barkley, and Postmaster General Jesse Donaldson.

Secretary of State Dean Acheson (right) prepares for his flight to the Foreign Ministers Conference in Paris with Vice-President Alben Barkley (left) and Mrs. Alice Acheson (second from right) seeing him off. Others are unidentified.