 "Lawe" returned to Newport, Rhode Island, on 21 November 1949 and remained at her new home port for the remainder of the year.During January 1950, "William C. Lawe" operated with in antisubmarine exercises off Bermuda; and, during the following month, the destroyer took part in Exercise "Portrex" off Puerto Rico and Vieques Island in the Caribbean.This exercise was cut short when "Lawe" received orders to proceed to Norfolk, Virginia, and escort President Harry S. Truman, on board his yacht, USS "Williamsburg", to Key West, Florida, arriving there on 16 March.