Daily Appointments of Harry S. Truman
February 07, 1951
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| Honorable Thomas K. Finletter, Secretary of the Air Force | ||
| (Staff) | ||
| The following members of the House Committee on Public Works in addition to other officials names, met with the President to discuss the St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project: Hon. Charles A. Buckley, Chairman, N. Y. Hon. Henry D. Larcade, Jr., La.~Hon. George A. Dondero, Mich. Hon. George H. Fallon, Md.~Hon. Homer D. Angell, Ore. Hon. James W. Trimble, Ark.~Hon. J. Harry McGregor, O. Hon. John A. Blatnik, Minn~Hon. James C. Auchincloss, N.J. Hon. Tom Pickett, Texas~Hon. J. Glenn Beall, Md. Hon. Robert E. Jone, Jr., Ala.~Hon. Russell V. Mack, Wash. Hon. Henderson Lanham, Ga.~Hon. Charles W. Vursell, Ill. Hon. Robert T. Secrest, O.~Hon. Hubert B. Scudder, Calif. Hon. T. Vincent Quinn, N. Y.~Hon. Myron V. George, Kansas Hon. Morgan M. Moulder, Mo.~Hon. William G. Bray, Ind. Hon. John J. Dempsey, N.Mex.~Hon. Howard H. Baker, Tenn. Hon. Frank E. Smith, Miss.~Hon. John T. Wood, Idaho | ||
| Hon. Charles Wilson, Director of Defense Mobilization Major General Lewis A. Pick, Chief of Engineers Hon. Charles Sawyer, Secretary of Commerce Hon. Thomas W. S. Davis, Asst. Secretary of Commerce Hon. Oscar L. Chapman, Secretary of the Interior | ||
| The President received the following Methodist Ministers and their assistants attending the Illinois Methodist Ministers' Washington Seminar: Clifford C. Brown, Casey, Ill.~Frank L. Countryman, Elmhurst Joseph H. Albrecht, Pekin, Ill.~William F. Fetz, Palatine, Ill. Milton Bayly, Rockford, Ill.~John L. Figley, Harvey, Ill. C. F. Chasteen Prophetstown, Ill.~Mrs. Waldo Haldeman, Wash. D.C. Emerson S. Colaw, Chicago, Ill.~Karl Hass, Georgetown, Ill. Jack E. Corbett, McHenry, Ill.~C.W. Hamm, Box 78, Colona, Ill. Paul Douglass, Pres. American Univ. Wash.~Clare B. Hewitt, Erlville, Ill. Forrest W. Hoisington, Rochelle, Ill.~Ed C. Hunt, Oregon, Ill. Helen Hunt, Oregon, Ill.~H. G. Hurley, Lebanon, Ill. George R. Keepin, Chicago, Ill.~F. James Franz, Tolono, Ill. Dr. Roy A. Lambert, Roaring Spring, Pa.~Russell W. Lambert, Glencoe, Ill. William E. Lamson, Chicago, Ill.~Frank Marston, Jacksonville Josephy A. Mason, Rushville, Ill.~Frank Nestler, Chrisman, Ill. Clifford H. Newham, Evanston, Ill.~Phil O. Nystrand, Chicago James H. Odom, Sheridan, Ill.~Donald Osten, Wash., D.C. Joseph Partridge, East Moline, Ill.~Wilbur J. Powell, East Moline Walter B. Pruett, Carrollton, Ill.~Allen R. Regan, Lombard, Ill. Jesse H. Roberts, Ottawa, Ill.~Miss Gail Rowe, Wash., D.C. L. J. Sailor, Carlinville, Ill.~E. H. Sauer, Fisher, Ill. Harry W. Seamans, Dept. of State~Ralph S. Smith, Wauconda, Ill. Merrill Tope, Riverside, Ill.~C. R. Underwood, Green Valley Clifford Varland, Norway, Ill.~Charles B. Wagner, Pontiac, Ill. L. B. Walkington, East Alton~Gilbert Weisshaar, Crystal Lake Hollis R. Wharton, Walnut~Homer Young, Gillespie, Ill. Franklin M. Zentz, Rockford, Ill. | ||
| [Public Papers: Remarks to a Group of Methodist Ministers] | ||
| Honorable Dan A. Kimball, Under Secretary of the Navy | ||
| The following members of the Advisory Committee of the Regular Veterans Association met with the President to pledge their support and to present their 1951 program: Frank E. McClernan, National Commander, Regular Veterans Assn. Lt. P. Leonard Orlando, USN, Adjutant Colonel George E. Wilder, Jr., Vice Commander Colonel Victor E. Devereaus, Welfare Director John Kyle, Chairman, Committee on National Defense Dr. Frank Gigliotti, National Chaplain, Regular Veterans Assn. | ||
| Honorable Stuart Symington, Chairman, N.S.R.B. | ||
| (The President left for the Office of the Secretary of the Interior to attend a Luncheon given by the Secretary.) | ||
| [Public Papers: Remarks at a Luncheon Given in His Honor by the Secretary of the Interior] | ||
| The President had Mr. Connelly call in the following people for a conference: Honorable Herbert Hoover Honorable Dean Acheson, Secretary of State Honorable George C. McGhee, Asst. Secretary of State Honorable Charles Brannan, Secretary of Agriculture Honorable Stanley Andrews, Director of Foreign Agricultural Relations, Department of Agriculture Honorable William C. Foster, Administrator ECA Dr. D. A. Fitzgerald, Director, Food & Agriculture Division, ECA Mr. James K. Knudson, Defense Transport Administration Honorable Frederick Lawton, Director, Bureau of the Budget Honorable W. Averell Harriman, Special Assistant to the President (Honorable Charles Murphy) | ||
| (Roe Bartle) OFF THE RECORD | ||
| Honorable Charles Brannan, The Secretary of Agriculture | ||
| Honorable John W. Snyder, The Secretary of the Treasury | ||
| Executive Orders: [10214 PRESCRIBING THE MANUAL FOR COURTS-MARTIAL, UNITED STATES, 1951] | ||
| (Pre-Press) | ||
| Press & Radio Conference [Public Papers] | ||
| (Staff) | ||
| (Mr. Joseph Magee, Kansas City) OFF THE RECORD | ||
| The Rt. Honorable Sidney George Holland, the Prime Minister of New Zealand H.E. Sir Carl Berendsen, the Ambassador of New Zealand Honorable Dean Acheson, the Secretary of State | ||
| Honorable Harry A. McDonald, Chairman, S.E.C. | ||
| Honorable Dean Acheson, the Secretary of State | ||
| (The President gave a stag luncheon at the Blair House for the Rt. Hon. Sidney George Holland, Prime Minister of New Zealand. The following guests attended: H.E. The Ambassador of New Zealand, Sir Carl Berendsen Hon. A. D. McIntosh, Secretary of External Affairs of New Zealand The Vice President [Alben W. Barkley] The Chief Justice [Fred Vinson] The Speaker [Sam Rayburn] Honorable Dean Acheson, The Secretary of State Honorable George C. Marshall, the Secretary of Defense Honorable Charles Brannan, The Secretary of Agriculture Senator Tom Connally Representative Charles A. Eaton Senator Alexander Wiley Representative Mike Mansfield Honorable W. Averell Harriman Mr. James C. H. Bonbright, Acting Asst. Secretary of State | ||
| H.E. Senor Dr. Antonio Martin Araujo, the Ambassador of Venezuela (Newly appointed Ambassador came in to present credentials.) | ||
| Honorable James E. Webb, The Under Secretary of State Honorable Delos Rentzel, Chairman, Civil Aeronautics Board (Secretary Webb advised Mr. Connelly that he and Mr. Rentzel had agreed on kind of negotiations and instructions are to be given our delegates to European Aviation Conference and that they both felt they should let the President know what they had worked out.) | ||
| Honorable Charles E. Wilson, Director of Defense Mobilization | ||
| (Mr. Charles Keck, sculptor) OFF THE RECORD | ||
| Honorable Charles Sawyer, Secretary of Commerce | ||
| Cabinet [Meeting] | ||
| Honorable Dean Acheson, The Secretary of State Senator Tom Connally, Texas Senator Alexander Wiley, Wisconsin Representative James P. Richards, South Carolina Representative Charles A. Eaton, New Jersey Honorable W. Averell Harriman, Special Assistant to the President (The above came in at the President's direction to discuss the grain situation in India) | ||
| (Honorable Edward T. McCormick, Securities and Exchange Commission) OFF THE RECORD | ||
| (General Bedell Smith) (Admiral Sidney Souers) OFF THE RECORD | ||
| Honorable Oscar Chapman, Secretary of the Interior Honorable Conrad Wirth, Assistant Director, National Park Service | ||
| Honorable George P. Shaw, American Ambassador to El Salvador | ||
| (Admiral Forrest P. Sherman, Chief of Naval Operations) (Admiral Arthur Radford, Commander in Chief, Pacific and U.S. Pacific Fleet) OFF THE RECORD (Admiral Robert Dennison) | ||
| (LUNCH) | ||
| (Mr. Tom Gavin, of Kansas City) OFF THE RECORD | ||
| Honorable J. Monroe Johnson, Chairman, Interstate Commerce Commission | ||
| Honorable John W. Snyder, Secretary of the Treasury | ||
| (Congressman Clarence Cannon, Missouri) OFF THE RECORD | ||
| (The President left for Bethesda Naval Hospital to visit Admiral William Leahy. Admiral Robert Dennison and Mr. William Hassett accompanied the President.) | ||
| (Mr. Herbert Drake) OFF THE RECORD | ||
| (LUNCH) | ||
| [Public Papers: Special Message to the Congress on the Famine in India] | ||
| BIG FOUR (The Vice President [Alben W. Barkley] The Speaker [Sam Rayburn] Senator Ernest W. McFarland Congressman John W. McCormack) | ||
| Senator Burnet R. Maybank, South Carolina | ||
| The President spoke briefly at the swearing-in ceremonies of the President's Commission on Internal Security and Individual Rights. The following were present: NIMITZ, Fleet Admiral Chester W. STRAUSS, Miss Anna Lord LEAHY, Mr. William D. DANAHER, Hon. John A. FIRESTONE, Mr. Harvey S., Jr. SILVER, Mr. Charles H. LEFFINGWELL, Hon. Russell C. BLOCK, Rt. Rev. Karl Morgan, Bishop of California WALSH, Most Rev. Emmet M., Coadjutor Bishop of Youngstown LAWS, Justice Bolitha James, Chief Justice, United States District Court for the District of Columbia [Public Papers: Remarks at the Swearing In of the President's Commission on Internal Security and Individual Rights] | ||
| (Staff) | ||
| Mr. James Patton, President of the Farmers' Union Mr. Glenn Talbot, Chairman, Executive Committee of Farmers' Union | ||
| (The President and Mrs. Truman left for the Lincoln Memorial for the annual ceremonies commemorating President Lincoln's Birthday. They were accompanied by the three Aides.) | ||
| (LUNCH) | ||
| Honorable Francis Matthews, Secretary of the Navy | ||
| Honorable Ingram M. Stainback, Governor of Hawaii | ||
| The President received the following Committee from the Governors' Conference: LAUSCHE, Governor Frank J., Ohio, President of Council of State Governments and Chairman of Governors' Conference BROWNING, Governor Gordon, Tennessee PAYNE, Governor Frederick, Maine CARVEL, Governor Elbert, Delaware ADAMS, Governor Sherman, New Hampshire KOHLER, Governor Walter J., Wisconsin STEVENSON, Governor Adlai, Illinois BANE, Mr. Frank., Secretary, Governors' Conference CALDWELL, Honorable Millard, Civil Defense Administrator | ||
| Cabinet [Meeting] | ||
| (Honorable Charles Wilson) OFF THE RECORD (Dr. Arthur Johnson Mellott, Dean of Kansas University) | ||
| (Staff) | ||
| Honorable and Mrs. Glen H. Taylor, Idaho | ||
| (Mr. Edmond Hanrahan) (Mr. Harry McDonald) OFF THE RECORD | ||
| Honorable Frank Pace, The Secretary of the Army Honorable Earl Johnson, Assistant Secretary of the Army | ||
| Honorable Osborne A. Pearson, Assistant Postmaster General | ||
| His Excellency Paul Henri Spaak, President of Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe, His Excellency Baron Silvercruys, the Ambassador of Belgium | ||
| Honorable Morris L. Cooke, Chairman, President's Water Resources Committee Honorable Leland Olds | ||
| Honorable Millard Caldwell, Administrator of Civil Defense | ||
| (LUNCH) | ||
| The President received a group of Trainees from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization countries. The Department of Defense requested this appointment. The men are cadets from the Treaty Countries who are to be trained in the UN Army. The following were present: Mr. Niles C. Astrup, Norway Air Cadet Mr. Jean Paul Leyzat, France, Master Sergeant Mr. Andre Jonckheers, Belgium, Air Cadet Chief Petty Officer Robert N. Langton, Canada, Royal Navy Chief Petty Officer Mogens A. Petersen, Denmark, Danish Navy Chief Petty Officer, Mario Sabbatini, Italian Navy First Sergeant Thomas J.C. Benningshof, Netherlands Sergeant H. S. Edwards, Great Britain [Public Papers: Remarks to a Group of Trainees from NATO Countries] | ||
| (Police Commissioner Pat McGinn, San Francisco) OFF THE RECORD | ||
| (Mr. Dick Stahl and son) OFF THE RECORD | ||
| (Judge Richard Duncan, Kansas City) OFF THE RECORD | ||
| (Judge James McGranery) OFF THE RECORD | ||
| Honorable William M. Boyle, Chairman, Democratic National Committee Honorable John L. Sullivan Mrs. Charles Brannan Mr. Charles Vandervanter | ||
| Honorable Oscar Ewing, Administrator, Federal Security Admn. | ||
| Honorable Maurice Tobin, Secretary of Labor | ||
| (Colonel E. V. Condon) (Colonel Hankins) OFF THE RECORD (Major Rough S. Edge) | ||
| (Staff) | ||
| (Honorable Charles E. Wilson) OFF THE RECORD | ||
| Congressman Victor L. Anfuso, New York | ||
| Honorable Delos W. Rentzel, Chairman, CAB | ||
| Senator Harley M. Kilgore, West Virginia Senator Matthew Neeley, West Virginia Congressman Harley Staggers, West Virginia (Senator Kilgore called Mr. Connelly to ask if they might come in and discuss, among other things, their State College) | ||
| The President received a group from the Credit Union National Association. The following were the delegates from the Assn.: DAVIS, Moses C., President, CUNA Mutual Insurance Society DOIG, Thomas W., Managing Director, CUNA EIKEL,C. F., Jr., Assistant Managing Director, CUNA FARR, Gurden P., Secretary, CUNA Mutual Insurance Society KNIGHT, William O., President, CUNA Supply Cooperative ORCHARD, Claude R., Director, Bureau of Federal Credit Unions PRATT, William W. RHODES, Hubert M., Washington Representative, CUNA ROE, John E., Counsel, CUNA SMITH, Gordon P. BLOMGREN, Joseph E., Federal Security Agency, Washington Asst. Director, Bureau of Federal Credit Unions | ||
| Honorable Frank A. Waring, Chairman, Phillippine War Damage Commission Honorable John A. O'Donnell, Member Honorable Francisco A. Delgado, Member (Chairman Waring asked Mr. Connelly to arrange this appointment.) | ||
| H.E. Zafruloa Kahn, the Foreign Minister of Pakistan H.E. M.A.H. Ispahani, the Ambassador of Pakistan Honorable Dean Acheson, the Secretary of State Mohammad Ali, Secretary General of Pakistan (Arranged at request of Secretary Acheson) | ||
| Honorable W. Stuart Symington, Chairman, N.S.R.B. | ||
| (LUNCH) | ||
| (Mr. and Mrs. Ben Turoff, Jr.) OFF THE RECORD Mr. Turoff, son of Ben Turoff, of Lee's Summit, Missouri. The elder wrote the President that his son was stationed in Washington at U.S. Naval School of Music and that he hoped the President might sometime have him come in for a minute.) | ||
| (National Security Council) OFF THE RECORD | ||
| (The President and Mrs. Truman left for Constitution Hall to attend a concert of the National Symphony with Madame Agi Jambor as soloist.) | ||
| Admiral Chester Nimitz | ||
| (Staff) | ||
| (Honorable Robert Ramspeck) OFF THE RECORD | ||
| Mr. Tom Miller, of Austin, Texas (Speaker Rayburn requested this appointment to shake hands with the President.) | ||
| Senator Richard B. Russell, Georgia | ||
| Honorable Jesse Donaldson, The Postmaster General | ||
| Honorable Dean Acheson, The Secretary of State | ||
| (LUNCH) | ||
| Admiral Chester Nimitz Honorable John Danaher Mr. William Leahey | ||
| (Pre-Press) | ||
| Press and Radio Conference [Public Papers] | ||
| Executive Orders: [10215 EXEMPTION OF ARTHUR A. QUINN FROM COMPULSORY RETIREMENT FOR AGE] |