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Truman with National Security Council

73-2704 (untitled)
Accession Number
73-2704
8x10 inches (21x26 cm)
Black & White
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Keywords
Cabinet officers
Cold War
Executive advisory bodies
Presidents
HST Keywords
National Security Council; Truman - Conferences - Councils - National Security Council
People Pictured
Forrestal, James, 1892-1949
Hill, Arthur M. (Arthur Middleton), 1892-1972
Hillenkoetter, Roscoe Henry, 1897-1982
Kenney, W. John, 1904-1992
Marshall, George C. (George Catlett), 1880-1959
Royall, Kenneth C. (Kenneth Claiborne), 1894-1971
Souers, Sidney W. (Sidney William), 1892-1973
Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972
Whitney, C. V. (Cornelius Vanderbilt), 1899-1992
Blum, Robert, 1911-1965
Gruenther, Alfred M. (Alfred Maximilian), 1899-1983
Rights

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Credit:
Abbie Rowe
National Park Service

Harry S. Truman Library & Museum.

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Description
President Harry S. Truman with members of the National Security Council. From left to right, clockwise around the table: Assistant Secretary of the Air Force Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney; Secretary of the Army Kenneth Royall; Executive Secretary of the National Security Council Sidney Souers; National Security Resources Board Chairman Arthur M. Hill; Director of Central Intelligence Roscoe Hillenkoetter; Secretary of Defense James Forrestal; Secretary of State George C. Marshall; President Truman; Under Secretary of the Navy W. John Kenney. The two men seated at the back are Major General A. M. Gruenther, Director, Joint Chiefs of Staff (left); and Robert Blum, Foreign Affairs Specialist, Department of Defense (right).
Date(s)
August 19, 1948