Audiovisual Collection. 1957 - 2006. Photographs Relating to the Administration, Family, and Personal Life of Harry S. Truman. 1957 - 2004. President Harry S. Truman at Everglades National Park Dedication

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Audiovisual Collection. 1957 - 2006. Photographs Relating to the Administration, Family, and Personal Life of Harry S. Truman. 1957 - 2004. President Harry S. Truman at Everglades National Park Dedication

1947

Caption: President Harry S. Truman (at podium) is speaking at the dedication of Everglades National Park in Florida, while on vacation in Key West. Also present and visible behind the President are (from left to right): John Steelman, Clark Clifford, Admiral William D. Leahy, Stanley Woodward, and Major General Harry Vaughan. All others are unidentified.

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Harry S. Truman Library

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Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972

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Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953, succeeding upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt after serving as the 34th vice president in early 1945. He implemented the Marshall Plan to rebuild the economy of Western Europe and established the Truman Doctrine and NATO to contain communist expansion. He proposed numerous liberal domestic reforms, but few were enacted by the Conservative Coalition that dominated Congres...

Leahy, William D. (William Daniel), 1875-1959

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Fleet Admiral William Daniel Leahy (May 6, 1875 – July 20, 1959) was an American naval officer who served as the senior-most United States military officer on active duty during World War II. He held multiple titles and was at the center of all major military decisions the United States made in World War II. As Chief of Naval Operations from 1937 to 1939, he was the senior officer in the United States Navy, overseeing the preparations for war. After retiring from the Navy, he was appointed in...

Woodward, Stanley, 1899-1992

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Stanley Woodward was born on March 12, 1899 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He served in the U.S. Army in World War I, in 1918. He received an A.B. in 1922 from Yale University, and from 1923 to 1924 he was a student at Ecoles de Sciences Politiques in Paris, France. In 1925, Woodward was appointed a Foreign Service Officer in the Department of State, beginning a long career in the foreign service. He served in the following capacities: Foreign Service Officer, Geneva, Switzerland, 1926-1929; For...

Steelman, John Roy, 1900-....

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Government executive. From the description of Reminiscences of John Roy Steelman : oral history, 1968. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122513408 John Roy Steelman was born in Thornton, Arkansas on June 23, 1900. Upon graduating from high school he joined the U.S. Army and served in World War I, at the very end of the war. After the war, he drifted across the country to gain seasonal employment in a variety of manual jobs, then entered Hende...

Clifford, Clark M., 1906-1998

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Lawyer and cabinet officer. Full name: Clark McAdam Clifford. From the description of Clark M. Clifford papers, 1883-1999 (bulk 1946-1998). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70979757 Clark M. Clifford was born on December 25, 1906, in Fort Scott, Kansas. He received his LL.B from Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, in 1928. From 1928 to 1944 he worked as an attorney in St. Louis. He married Margery Pepperell Kimball on October 3, 1931. From 1944 to 1946 he served as an ...

Vaughan, Harry H., 1893-1981

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Harry H. Vaughan (b. 1893-d. 1981), Major General in the U.S. Army, served as military aide to the Vice-President in 1945 and to the President of the United States from 1945 to 1953. He retired from Army service in 1953. From the description of Vaughan, Harry H., 1893-1981 (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration). naId: 10572649 Army officer. From the description of Papers, ca. 1918-1973 (bulk1942-1945). (Harry S Truman Library). WorldCat record id: 70...