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TRUMAN, Harry S. and TRUMAN CABINET. Photograph signed ("Harry S. Truman"), and signed by each member of the Cabinet, n.d. [ca. 1947]. 10½ x 13¼ in., matted and framed, signed by each Cabinet member below the photo . TRUMAN AND HIS CABINET CIRCA 1947. This photo shows Truman, seated at the Cabinet table, just a few feet away from mantle and fireplace where he stood and swore the Oath of Office as President on the afternoon of 12 April 1945, under the portrait of Woodrow Wilson. The presence and absence of various people helps us date the photo to sometime in early 1947. Jimmy Byrnes is gone, his once close friendship with Truman shattered, and George C. Marshall is now Secretary of State. The unification of the armed services still hasn't come into effect so Robert Patterson still sits at the table as Secretary of War and James Forrestal is Secretary of the Navy. Henry Wallace has already been fired as Commerce Secretary for his sympathy towards the Soviet Union, and the decidedly anti-Communist W. Averill Harriman sits in his place. There is no Vice-President. With Truman's ascension to the Presidency, the post remained vacant until he won election in his own right and made Alben Barkley his veep in 1949. Other signatories are Tom Clark (Attorney General), John Snyder (Treasury), Robert E. Hannegan (Postmaster General), J. A. Krug (Interior), Clinton P. Anderson (Agriculture), and Lewis B. Schwellenbach (Labor).