TY - ADVS TI - Elpidio Rivera Quirino KW - Presidents and kin KW - Washington, D.C KW - 1949 KW - ambassadors KW - dean acheson KW - foreign affairs KW - government KW - harry s. truman KW - joaquin elizalde KW - myron cowen KW - philippine officials in the u.s KW - politics KW - quirino papers KW - rp-us relations KW - secretary of state KW - state visits KW - u.s. Presidents N1 - The President is shown with U.S. President Harry S. Truman (front row, right) and (behind, from left) Philippine ambassador Joaquin Elizalde, U.S. ambassador Myron Cowen, and U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson during a state visit to Washington. Ambassador Cowen was largely responsible for the state visit of Quirino whom Washington preferred to the widely-perceived anti-American Jose P. Laurel; With prints UR - http://retrato.com.ph/retratoimages/Midsize/PP/PP00718a.jpg UR - http://retrato.com.ph/retratoimages/Thumb/PP/PP00718a.jpg UR - http://www.retrato.com.ph/photodtl.asp?id=PP00718 ER -