Sold – Signed Photograph of Truman and His War Cabinet
Taken the Day Japan Announced It Would Surrender.
During the first nine days of August 1945, atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the Soviet Union came into the war coalition arrayed against Japan. On August 9 the Japanese prime minister stated that the war could not be continued. Then, on August 10, 1945, the government of Japan...
During the first nine days of August 1945, atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the Soviet Union came into the war coalition arrayed against Japan. On August 9 the Japanese prime minister stated that the war could not be continued. Then, on August 10, 1945, the government of Japan announced that a message had been sent to the Allies accepting the terms of surrender as set forth in the Potsdam Declaration – provided the Emperor could remain as sovereign ruler.
The war thus ended in victory, that day President Truman and his War Cabinet sat for an official portrait. Because of the many and complex issues facing the nation in its biggest war, the cabinet included not merely the core members (such as the secretary of state), but others dealing with key issues unique to the war situation (such as chairman of the War Production Board). Present from left to right were: Secretary of Agriculture Clinton Anderson, Secretary of Labor Lewis B. Schwellenbach, National Housing Agency Chairman John B. Blandford, War Production Board Chairman Julius Krug, War Mobilization Director John W. Snyder, Office of Economic Stabilization Director William H. Davis, Foreign Economics Administrator Leo Crowley, Secretary of Commerce Henry Wallace, Under Secretary of the Interior Abe Fortas (in the absence of the Secretary, Harold Ickes), Postmaster General Robert E. Hannegan, Secretary of War Henry Stimson, Secretary of State James Byrnes, President Harry S. Truman, Secretary of the Treasury Fred Vinson, Attorney General Tom Clark, and Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal.
An 11 by 14 inch photograph of that group, signed by every person pictured. The signature of William H. Davis is faded, the others are good and strong. It is noteworthy that four of these men – Vinson, Clark, Fortas and Byrnes – would serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, Henry Wallace had been vice president under FDR, Snyder would be promoted to Treasury Secretary, and Forrestal would become the first Secretary of Defense (and commit suicide).
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