Featured The Life and Presidency of Harry S. Truman
The White House Historical Association’s 2018 White House Christmas Ornament honors Harry S. Truman, the thirty-third president of the United St...
The U.S. Marine Band: Music as Diplomacy - Photo 2
- Photographer
- Yoichi R. Okamoto
- Date of Work
- June 29, 1966
- Medium
- Photo
- Credit
- Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library and Museum/NARA
The U.S. Marine Band: Music as Diplomacy - Photo 2
On June 29, 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson and Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt review the troops at an arrival ceremony on the South Lawn.
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