President Harry Truman holds last cabinet meeting in Washington, DC, before leaving presidency

After cabinet members have presented Pres. Harry Truman with leather chair he used during his Presidency, Truman and cabinet pose for photo op standing behind chair; L to R Maurice Tobin, Secretary of Labor; Dean Acheson, Secretary of State; Charles Brannan, Secretary of Agriculture; unidentified man; Jesse Donaldson, Postmaster General; Truman; Averell Harriman, Head of Mutual Security; John Snyder, Secretary of the Treasury; John Steelman, Assistant to President; Charles Sawyer, Secretary of Commerce / VS Truman and Acheson, seated next to one another, talking / Fowler, Harriman, Tobin, Brannan and Donaldson at table / VS Truman looks at chair with cabinet members nearby / VS Truman at table with Acheson on his right and Snyder to his left / closer shot Truman with Acheson / Brannan, Donaldson, and Secretary of Defense Robert Lovett at table / Acheson, Brannan, Donaldson, Truman, and Harriman stand behind chair / two cameramen shoot footage of chair / VS CU chair / President-elect Dwight Eisenhower and Vice President-elect Richard Nixon and members of Eisenhower's incoming cabinet standing up after photo op / VS Eisenhower sitting and posing for photo op with Nixon and members of his cabinet, seated in front row L to R Herbert Brownell, Jr., Attorney General; George Humphrey, Secretary of Treasury; Nixon, Eisenhower, John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State and Charles Wilson, Secretary of Defense; standing in back row L to R Joseph Dodge, Chairman of Council on Foreign Economic Policy; Oveta Culp Hobby, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare; Sherman Adams, White House Chief of Staff; Sinclair Weeks, Secretary of Commerce; Douglas McKay, Secretary of Interior; Arthur Summerfield, Postmaster General; Ezra Taft Benson, Secretary of Agriculture; Martin Patrick Durkin, Secretary of Labor; Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., Ambassador to UN; Harold Stassen, Director of US Foreign Operations Administration / VS cameramen shoot footage
After cabinet members have presented Pres. Harry Truman with leather chair he used during his Presidency, Truman and cabinet pose for photo op standing behind chair; L to R Maurice Tobin, Secretary of Labor; Dean Acheson, Secretary of State; Charles Brannan, Secretary of Agriculture; unidentified man; Jesse Donaldson, Postmaster General; Truman; Averell Harriman, Head of Mutual Security; John Snyder, Secretary of the Treasury; John Steelman, Assistant to President; Charles Sawyer, Secretary of Commerce / VS Truman and Acheson, seated next to one another, talking / Fowler, Harriman, Tobin, Brannan and Donaldson at table / VS Truman looks at chair with cabinet members nearby / VS Truman at table with Acheson on his right and Snyder to his left / closer shot Truman with Acheson / Brannan, Donaldson, and Secretary of Defense Robert Lovett at table / Acheson, Brannan, Donaldson, Truman, and Harriman stand behind chair / two cameramen shoot footage of chair / VS CU chair / President-elect Dwight Eisenhower and Vice President-elect Richard Nixon and members of Eisenhower's incoming cabinet standing up after photo op / VS Eisenhower sitting and posing for photo op with Nixon and members of his cabinet, seated in front row L to R Herbert Brownell, Jr., Attorney General; George Humphrey, Secretary of Treasury; Nixon, Eisenhower, John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State and Charles Wilson, Secretary of Defense; standing in back row L to R Joseph Dodge, Chairman of Council on Foreign Economic Policy; Oveta Culp Hobby, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare; Sherman Adams, White House Chief of Staff; Sinclair Weeks, Secretary of Commerce; Douglas McKay, Secretary of Interior; Arthur Summerfield, Postmaster General; Ezra Taft Benson, Secretary of Agriculture; Martin Patrick Durkin, Secretary of Labor; Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., Ambassador to UN; Harold Stassen, Director of US Foreign Operations Administration / VS cameramen shoot footage
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Editorial #:
1074482136
Collection:
Sherman Grinberg Library
Date created:
16 January, 1953
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Clip length:
00:01:38:01
Location:
Washington DC, United States
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QuickTime 10-bit ProRes 422 (HQ) HD 1920x1080 23.98p
Originally shot on:
35mm B/W Neg
Source:
Sherman Grinberg Library
Object name:
sr003289_01_01.mov