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Associated Press Truman Comes Ashore at Key West

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC08878.1451 Author/Creator: Associated Press Place Written: Washington, District of Columbia Type: Photograph Date: 17 March 1950 Pagination: 1 photo ; b&w Order a Copy

One photograph dated March 17, 1950 of President Harry S. Truman with military aide Harry H. Vaughan en route to Key West.

Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972
Vaughan, Harry H., 1893-1981

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