White House Gym, Truman Administration

March 10, 1948

President Harry Truman’s White House gym with rings, exercise bike, medicine balls, pulleys, ladders.

For a chronicle on the evolution of the gym and amenities, check out BlogHer.com

Gym image from Harry S. Truman Library by Abbie Rowe. Info from White House Historical Association.

Left, Harry leads exercises on the U.S.S. Missouri during a voyage to Brazil. Newsmen accompanying him gave him the T-shirt he wears; it reads "Coach Truman, Athletic Director." Photographer unknown