It was picture week at the White House. Harry Truman saw and heard himself in newsreels taken during his trip to Rio, re-enjoyed the horseplay of his Equator crossing. After lunch each day, the President watched a few innings of the World Series games on a White House television set, but never sat through to the last innings. Cinemactor Edward Arnold dropped in and gave him a fat set of pictures of U.S. Presidents, including his own.*
Then 75 White House news photographers bobbed up on the south grounds and Harry Truman went out to see what it was all about....
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