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The Big Three Sit Down for the First Meeting of the Potsdam Conference

63-1378-01
Accession Number
63-1378-01
8x10 inches (21x26 cm)
Black & White

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Description
The Opening Session of the Potsdam Conference poses for photographers. President Harry S. Truman is near the center at the back end of the table, wearing a bow tie. Clockwise around the table, starting at President Truman: Charles Bohlen; two unidentified men; British foreign minister Anthony Eden; Prime Minister Winston Churchill; unidentified British military officer; Clement Attlee; unidentified man; Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov; Joseph Stalin; two unidentified men; Admiral William D. Leahy; Secretary of State James Byrnes. Also present are Edwin Pauley (behind Byrnes, partly obscured); Captain James K. Vardaman (behind Bohlen, partly obscured); Major General Harry Vaughan (standing behind Vardaman); and Averell Harriman (seated on Vardaman's left). All others are unidentified. From the album "President's Trip to the Berlin Conference Vol. 2 of 2."
Date(s)
July 17, 1945