Daily Appointments of Harry S. Truman
May 11, 1951
President Harry S. Truman's appointment calendar covers the dates from April 12, 1945 to January 20, 1953. Please select a date within that range.
| Dr. Jaime Torres Bodet, Director General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Honorable Edward W. Barrett, Assistant Secretary of State Dr. George Stoddard, Chairman, U.S. National Commission for UNESCO Mr. Alvaro Galvan, translator (Arranged through State Department. Mr. Simmons says State Dept. is urging Director General to take stronger action in support of United Nations action in Korea. One purpose of his visit here is to discuss this. This Government is also preparing for 6th Session of General Conference of UNESCO in Paris June 18 to July 11. One proposal will be to strengthen UNESCO's program and feel that important factor in getting approval of conference will be attitude of Director General.) (Dr. Bodet is former Foreign Minister of Mexico and saw President in 1948.) | ||
| Honorable Norman Thomas (Wanted to report to President on his recent trip to India) | ||
| Honorable John Peurifoy, U.S. Ambassador to Greece (called Mr. Connelly) | ||
| (LUNCH) | ||
| The President signed in the Cabinet Room S.J. Res. 72, Joint Resolution to provide certain benefits for certain persons who shall have served in the Armed Forces of the United States on and after June 27, 1950. (Pictures were made) (No ceremony) | ||
| (Honorable Wayne Coy, Chairman, Federal Communications Com.) OFF THE RECORD (One-half hour - called Mr. Connelly) | ||
| (Mr. James McCahey, of Chicago) OFF THE RECORD | ||
| Senator Robert Kerr, Oklahoma Senator Clinton Anderson, New Mexico (Called Mr. Connelly) | ||
| [Public Papers: Letter to the Chairman, Committee on the Judiciary, on the Commission on Internal Security and Individual Rights] | ||
| (Admiral Sidney Souers) (Mr. James Lay) OFF THE RECORD | ||
| BIG FOUR Honorable Alben Barkley, The Vice President Honorable Sam Rayburn, The Speaker of the House Senator Ernest W. McFarland, Arizona Congressman John W. McCormack, Massachusetts (Usual Monday meeting of BIG FOUR) | ||
| CABINET [Meeting] (Under Secretary Galvin represented Labor - All others present) | ||
| Honorable J. Donal Kingsley, Director General of the International Refugee Organization, and Agent General of the United Nations Korean Reconstruction Agency (Called Mr. Connelly and requested appointment) | ||
| Congressman Abraham J. Multer, New York Mr. Benjamin G. Browdy, President, Zionist Organization of America (Congressman requested appointment) | ||
| Honorable Dean Acheson, the Secretary of State (Usual Monday appointment) | ||
| (LUNCH) | ||
| Honorable Perle Mesta, American Minister to Luxembourg | ||
| (Honorable James J. Reynolds, Jr., N.L.R.B.) OFF THE RECORD | ||
| Honorable William M. Boyle, Jr., Chairman, Democratic National Com. | ||
| (Honorable George Allen) OFF THE RECORD | ||
| [Public Papers: Veto of Bill Relating to Land Acquisition and Disposal Actions by the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Federal Civil Defense Administration] | ||
| [Public Papers: Statement by the President Upon Signing Bill To Facilitate the Financing of Defense Contracts] | ||
| The President met briefly in the Cabinet Room with the Members of the National Advisory Board on Mobilization Policy: Ray B. Wiser, California David W. Brooks, Georgia James G. Patton, Colorado Herschel D. Newsom, Indiana Marion B. Folsom, New York Otto A. Seyfert, Michigan Claude A. Putnam, New Hampshire Samuel Abbot Smith, Massachusetts John Lord O'Brian, District of Columbia George Houk Mead, Ohio William H. Davis, New York Paul A. Porter, Kentucky Walter P. Reuther, Michigan Philip Murray, Pennsylvania George Meany, New York William Green, District of Columbia | ||
| (Staff) | ||
| (Mr. and Mrs. Michael Fanning) (Mr. and Mrs. Bergin) (Mr. and Mrs. Eaton) OFF THE RECORD | ||
| Congressman Phil J. Welch, Missouri (Called Mr. Matthew Connelly last week and asked for appointment) | ||
| Honorable Francis P. Corrigan, Advisor to the United States Mission to the United Nations (Called Mr. Matthew Connelly last week and asked for appointment) | ||
| Honorable Claude L. Draper, Federal Power Commission (Mr. Matthew Connelly called Commissioner Draper last week, at suggestion of Mr. Donald Dawson, and asked him to come in and see the President) | ||
| Honorable Anna Rosenberg, Assistant Secretary of Defense (This is usual time set aside for Secretary of Defense but as he was out of town, and as there were certain manpower problems about which he wished the President to know, Mrs. Rosenberg was asked to come in on this half-hour period) | ||
| (LUNCH) | ||
| (Honorable Dan A. Kimball, Under Secretary of the Navy) OFF THE RECORD (Called Mr. Matthew Connelly yesterday and asked for this) | ||
| Honorable Oscar Chapman, the Secretary of the Interior Major J. R. Parten (Postponed from yesterday at Mr. Oscar Chapman's request, as he had to appear at Capitol; Attorney General [J. Howard McGrath] out of town and was unable to join them. To discuss matter of Government Chairman of Industry Council set-up) ONE-HALF HOUR | ||
| Honorable John W. Snyder, Secretary of the Treasury | ||
| Honorable Dechard A. Hulcy, President, U.S. Chamber of Commerce (Dr. John R. Steelman also attended OFF THE RECORD) | ||
| (The President dropped in on meeting of the National Advisory Board on Mobilization Policy in the Cabinet Room) OFF THE RECORD | ||
| (Mr. Vivian Truman) (Mr. George Bremer, of D.C.) OFF THE RECORD | ||
| (Mr. Fred Wilson) OFF THE RECORD | ||
| (The President left for the Capitol to attend a breakfast given by Congressman A.S.J. Carnahan of Missouri for the Democratic members of the Missouri Delegation at 8:00 a.m. in the Speaker's Dining Room.) | ||
| (Staff) | ||
| Congressman Charles E. Bennett, Florida (Called Mr. Connelly last week and asked for this) | ||
| Senator and Mrs. Edward Keating, of Missouri (State Senator; arranged thru Mr. Boyle) | ||
| (Mr. Paul Nachtman) OFF THE RECORD (Came to see Mr. Connelly and saw the President OFF RECORD) | ||
| Congressman Arthur G. Klein, New York (Called Mr. Connelly last week to ask if might stop by and pay respects, as has not seen the President for about four years) | ||
| Honorable George R. Merrell, American Ambassador to Afghanistan (In Washington and asked, thru Protocol, to pay respects before going out to new post) | ||
| Honorable Dr. K. T. Jutila, the Minister of Finland (Returning to Finland and asked through Protocol to see the President prior to departure. Presented two books to the President) | ||
| Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Day Mr. and Mrs. John V. Ellison (Mrs. Ellison wrote the President that her father, Mr. Day, would be in Washington; that her father had known the President when he occupied the farm next to the Truman farm at Grandview.) | ||
| Honorable J. Monroe Johnson, Interstate Commerce Commission (Called Mr. Connelly last week and asked for this) | ||
| (LUNCH) | ||
| (National Security Council) OFF THE RECORD (The President sat in on meeting in the Cabinet Room) | ||
| (Mr. Vivian Truman) (Mr. Mike Flynn) OFF THE RECORD | ||
| (Speech Conference) OFF THE RECORD | ||
| (OFF THE RECORD MEETING AT THE BLAIR HOUSE) The following were present: Senator Lyndon Johnson, Texas Senator Lister Hill, Alabama Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney, Wyoming Senator Mike Monroney, Oklahoma Senator Blair Moody, Michigan Congressman Percy Priest, Tennessee Congressman Mike Mansfield, Montana Congressman Sidney Yates, Illinois Congressman William L. Dawson, Illinois Congressman John F. Shelley, California Congressman Richard Bolling, Missouri Mr. David Stowe, White House Mr. John Carroll, White House | ||
| Executive Orders: [10244 DESIGNATING THE SECRETARY OF STATE AND THE ATTORNEY GENERAL AS THE OFFICERS TO PERFORM CERTAIN FUNCTIONS WITH RESPECT TO THE SETTLEMENT OF INTERCUSTODIAL CONFLICTS RELATING TO ENEMY PROPERTY] | ||
| Executive Orders: [10245 ESTABLISHING A COMMISSION FOR THE COMMEMORATION OF THE ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SIGNING OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE] | ||
| (Staff) | ||
| Honorable and Mrs. Roy Turner (former Governor of Oklahoma; in city and asked if he might pay respects) | ||
| (The President, accompanied by Mrs. Truman, left for the Statler Hotel where, at 11:45 a.m. he addressed the National Conference on Citizenship) [Public Papers: Address at the National Conference on Citizenship] | ||
| Honorable Dean Acheson, the Secretary of State (Usual Thursday appointment) | ||
| (LUNCH) | ||
| Senator Dennis Chavez, New Mexico Senator Clinton P. Anderson, New Mexico Congressman Antonio M. Fernandez, New Mexico Congressman John J. Dempsey, New Mexico Mr. Walter Measday, former County Chairman, from Demming, New Mexico (Senator Chavez phoned Mr. Connelly Tuesday, asking if the New Mexico Delegation might call on the President; stated it was urgent.) | ||
| (Pre Press) OFF THE RECORD | ||
| Press & Radio Conference [Public Papers] | ||
| Honorable Charles Brannan, Secretary of Agriculture | ||
| (OFF THE RECORD MEETING AT THE BLAIR HOUSE) The following were present: Senator Hubert Humphrey, Minnesota Senator William Benton, Connecticut Senator James Murray, Montana Senator Thomas Hennings, Missouri Senator Earle Clements, Kentucky Senator George Smathers, Florida Congressman Eugene McCarthy, Minnesota Congressman Hale Boggs, Louisiana Congressman Sam Yorty, California Congressman Wayne Hays, Ohio Honorable Charles Murphy, White House Honorable John Carroll, White House | ||
| Executive Orders: [10246 TRANSFERRING THE USE, POSSESSION, AND CONTROL OF CERTAIN LAND FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR TO THE TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY] | ||
| (Staff) | ||
| (General Bedell Smith) (Admiral Sidney Souers) (Mr. James Lay) OFF THE RECORD | ||
| CABINET [Meeting] (Under Secretary Foley for Treasury; Postmaster General absent; All others present) | ||
| Senator Guy M. Gillette, Iowa Honorable Owen J. Roberts, Associate Justice (Retired) Honorable William Clayton Mr. Clarence Streit (Senator Gillette called Mr. Connelly last week, to ask if this group might call on the President and discuss closer Atlantic unity) | ||
| Mr. & Mrs. Ray Eccles and son, of Maryville, Missouri (In city and are old friends of the President) | ||
| Honorable Thomas D'Alesandro, Jr., Mayor of Baltimore, Maryland (Mayor D'Alesandro called Mr. Connelly May 14th, stating he had had call from the President the day before, at which time the President asked him to check with Mr. Connelly and get appointment to come in for a talk) | ||
| Congressman Clyde Doyle, California Dr. Vincent P. Carroll, President, American Osteopathic Assn. Dr. Chester Swope, American Osteopathic Association Dr. R. C. McCaughan, American Osteopathic Association Dr. John T. Wood, American Osteopathic Association Dr. Glen D. Cayler, American Osteopathic Association Dr. Stephen Pugh, American Osteopathic Association Dr. James O. Watson, American Osteopathic Association (Congressman Doyle called Mr. Connelly and asked if the President and Members of Executive Board of American Osteopathic Association might call and pay respects) | ||
| (LUNCH) | ||
| Honorable Frederick Lawton, Director, Bureau of the Budget (One half hour, re Military Public Works Bill, Military Assistance and Foreign Aid Program) | ||
| Honorable Stuart Symington, Chairman, R.F.C. (Called Mr. Connelly Tuesday and asked for appointment) | ||
| (The President left for the Statler Hotel to attend the Armed Forces Day Dinner) | ||
| [Public Papers: Remarks at the Armed Forces Day Dinner] | ||
| (The President left for the reviewing stand to review the Armed Forces Day Parade) | ||
| Honorable Warren H. Austin, U.S. Representative to the United Nations and Representative in the Security Council (Asked for this thru Mr. Hassett) | ||
| The President presented the Medal of Honor to: First Lieutenant Carl H. Dodd, USA Master Sergeant Ernest R. Kouma, USA Sergeant John A. Pittman, USA The following were also present: Fireman James K. Kouma, USA (brother) Mrs. Libbie I. Dodd, Anderson, Indiana (wife) Mr. and Mrs. Edgar W. Pittman, Tallula, Mississippi (father and mother) Mr. Charles E. Pittman, Tallula, Mississippi (brother) From the Department of the Army: Honorable George C. Marshall, Secretary of Defense, and Mrs. Marshall Honorable Archibald B. Alexander, Under Secretary of the Army and Mrs. Alexander General Wade H. Haislip, Vice Chief of Staff, and Mrs. Haislip Colonel John R. Beishline, White House Liaison Officer and Mrs. Beishline Colonel E. A. Williams, Military District of Washington Colonel Paul Freeman, Chief of Information Lt. Colonel C.W. Rogers, Adjutant General's office, and Mrs. Rogers Lt. Colonel A. J. Rehe, Adjutant General's Office Major Wilfred D. Petit Mr. Ernest Sabota Mr. Norman Horacek Mr. and Mrs. James Kabourek Miss Martha Kabourek Major and Mrs. E. C. Stark Family Group Guides: Captain H. P. Levely (Group Leader) Captain H. C. Hanna Captain L. J. Reinholz Captain R. A. Lehman Members of Congress: Senator Hugh Butler, Nebraska Congressman Karl Stefan, Nebraska Congressman Frank E. Smith, Mississippi Senator Earle Clements, Kentucky Congressman James S. Golden, Kentucky Governor: Honorable Lawrence W. Weatherby, Kentucky | ||
| The Duke of Harar (Second son of Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia. His name is Masfin Makonnen and is known as Duke Makonnen. Official position is that of Governor of the Province of Harar. Is married and has young son and daughter and is making pleasure trip to the United States with wife. H.E. Ras H.S. Imru, Ambassador of Ethiopia Honorable John Simmons, Chief of Protocol, Dept. of State | ||
| (LUNCH) | ||
| [Public Papers: Letter to the Chairman, Democratic National Committee, on the Midwest Conference and the Western States Conference of the Democratic Party] | ||
| (Admiral Sidney Souers) (Mr. James Lay) OFF THE RECORD | ||
| BIG FOUR The Vice President, Honorable Alben Barkley The Speaker, Honorable Sam Rayburn Senator Ernest W. McFarland, Arizona Congressman John W. McCormack, Massachusetts | ||
| (Staff) | ||
| (Honorable Harry A. McDonald, Chairman, Securities and Exchange Commission, and son) OFF THE RECORD | ||
| (General Ralph Truman) (Colonel Ed Condon) OFF THE RECORD | ||
| Honorable David J. Coddaire, Member, Subversive Activities Control Board (Called Mr. Connelly last week; said had worked for the President three years but had never met him and asked if might come in and pay respects) | ||
| (Honorable Frank Pace, The Secretary of the Army) OFF THE RECORD | ||
| Honorable Dean Acheson, Secretary of State Honorable James E. Webb, Under Secretary of State (Usual Monday appointment) | ||
| (LUNCH in downstairs dining room Executive Office) | ||
| (Honorable Paul W. Brosman, Dean, Tulane Law School) (Honorable George Latimer, Judge, Supreme Court of Utah) (Honorable Robert E. Quinn, Justice, Superior Court of R.I.) (Arranged by Mr. Dawson, who brought them in) OFF THE RECORD | ||
| (Honorable John L. Sullivan, former Secretary of the Navy) OFF THE RECORD | ||
| (The President and Mrs. Truman, with Miss Margaret Truman, left Blair House for the Anderson House, where they attended the annual party given by the White House Aides.) | ||
| (The following met with the President at the Blair House) OFF THE RECORD Francis Biddle, National Chairman, Americans for Democratic Action Joseph L. Rauh, Secretary, National Board, ADA Frank W. McCulloch, Secretary, National Board, ADA James B. Carey, Secretary-Treasury, CIO, Member of National Bd., ADA Marvin Rosenberg, Treasurer, ADA, President, Cameo Curtains, Inc., NYC A. J. Hayes, Vice President, ADA (Pres., IAM) Reinhold Nieburh, Vice Chairman, ADA (Dean, Union Theological Seminary) Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., Vice Chairman, ADA (Prof. of History, Harvard) Hon. Hubert H.. Humphrey, Vice Chairman, ADA, Senator from Minnesota Colonel Campbell C. Johnson, Member of Board, ADA (Asst. to Director, Selective Service System) Honorable Charles Murphy, White House Honorable David Lloyd, White House Honorable David Bell, White House | ||
| Public Papers: Letter to Senator Maybank on the Limitation on Public Housing in the Appropriations Bill] | ||
| (Staff) | ||
| (Admiral William D. Leahy) OFF THE RECORD | ||
| Congressman Overton Brooks, Louisiana (Called Mr. Connelly last week to ask for this) |