The photograph, taken in the White House, Washington D.C., shows U.S. President Harry S. Truman, signing the act granting U.S. citizenship and a representative government to the people of Guam. At the same time, U.S. Government relations with the Pacific Island were transferred from military to civilian administration, the President ordering the U.S. Interior Department to take this responsibility from the U.S. Navy. The act extends the greatest practicable measure of local self government to the island through an elected legislature, provides an independent judiciary and defines the scope of executive authority. Looking on as the President signs the act are (left to right) Senator Joseph C. O’Mahoney of Wyoming; Carlos Taitano, Guam legislative representative; Harold Seidman of the U.S. Bureau of the Budget; Secretary of the U.S. Navy Francis P. Matthews; Senator Clinton P. Anderson of New Mexico; Secretary of Interior, Oscar L. Chapman; and Senator Hugh Butler of Nebraska.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 60, Issue 4341, 9 October 1950, Page 8

The photograph, taken in the White House, Washington D.C., shows U.S. President Harry S. Truman, signing the act granting U.S. citizenship and a representative government to the people of Guam. At the same time, U.S. Government relations with the Pacific Island were transferred from military to civilian administration, the President ordering the U.S. Interior Department to take this responsibility from the U.S. Navy. The act extends the greatest practicable measure of local self government to the island through an elected legislature, provides an independent judiciary and defines the scope of executive authority. Looking on as the President signs the act are (left to right) Senator Joseph C. O’Mahoney of Wyoming; Carlos Taitano, Guam legislative representative; Harold Seidman of the U.S. Bureau of the Budget; Secretary of the U.S. Navy Francis P. Matthews; Senator Clinton P. Anderson of New Mexico; Secretary of Interior, Oscar L. Chapman; and Senator Hugh Butler of Nebraska.