President Truman Signs A 1946 Memorandum About Transferring White House Office Employees

HARRY TRUMAN (1884-1972). Truman was the Thirty-Third President. Archive. 1945-1946. The White House. An archive of materials related to transferring White House and Executive Department personnel shortly after Truman took over as President. The highlight is a June 28, 1946 typed memorandum signed M.C. Latta Executive Clerk addressed to Truman. The content states The attached list has been prepared pursuant to your approval of the transfer to this office of certain employees now on detail from various Departments and agencies of the government and the promotion of some of these as well as regular White House Office employees to grades approved by the Civil Service Commission. Action as indicated, effective July 1, 1946, is hereby recommended. At the conclusion, Truman wrote Approved Harry S Truman. The memorandum is stapled to a ten page typed list of various Executive Department employees, including their name, the department where he or she works, their title, pay grade and salary. There are several other similar typed memoranda, several signed by Frank K. Sanderson, an executive administrator in the Truman White House. Overall, the pieces are in very good condition. Most unusual Presidential content, reminding people that the President also runs one-third of the Federal government.