Daily Appointments of Harry S. Truman

July 09, 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.

12:00 pm	July 09, 1951	H.E. Senor Dr. Jeronimo Remorino, the Foreign Minister of the Argentine Republic (Retiring as Ambassador to the United States, although he has been sworn in as Foreign Minister; returning to his country to serve in this office and asked if he might call and say goodbye; State Department advised that the Minister has just lost his mother.) Mr. Carlos Quiros, Charge d'Affaires
12:15 pm	July 09, 1951	Honorable William C. Foster, Administrator, E.C.A. (Called Mr. Matthew Connelly last week and asked for this.)
12:30 pm	July 09, 1951	Honorable Dean Acheson, the Secretary of State
1:00 pm	July 09, 1951	(Lunch)
3:00 pm	July 09, 1951	Senator Olin D. Johnston, South Carolina (Called Mr. Matthew Connelly on Friday and asked for this.)
3:15 pm	July 09, 1951	(Honorable Gordon Clapp) OFF THE RECORD
3:30 pm	July 09, 1951	(Honorable Burton Wheeler, former Senator from Montana) (One-half hour; called Mr. Matthew Connelly last week.) OFF THE RECORD
12:00 am	July 10, 1951	Executive Orders: [10272 DELEGATING TO THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY THE AUTHORITY OF THE PRESIDENT TO PRESCRIBE RULES, REGULATIONS, AND RESTRICTIONS WITH RESPECT TO THE ARMY AND NAVY HOSPITAL AT HOT SPRINGS, ARKANSAS.]
10:00 am	July 10, 1951	(Staff)
11:00 am	July 10, 1951	Honorable Frederick Lawton, Director, Bureau of the Budget (One-half hour)
11:30 am	July 10, 1951	Mrs. India Edwards (Called Mr. Matthew Connelly and asked for this last week.)
11:45 am	July 10, 1951	Honorable W. Stuart Symington, Chairman, R.F.C. (Called Mr. Matthew Connelly last week and asked for this.)
12:00 pm	July 10, 1951	The President was presented with a piece of the rock of Corregidor, a gift from the people of the Philippine Republic. The presentation was made by a Philippine war veteran and an American war Veteran, both of whom were wounded on Corregidor or Bataan. This presentation took place during Philippine Achievement Week, which marked progress of Philippines after five years of sovereignty. The following were present: ELIZALDE, Hon. Joaquin M., the Philippine Ambassador ABELLO, Hon. Emilio, the Philippine Consul General ACOSTA, Major Manuel, Filipino War Veteran (made presentation) VALENCIA, Mr. A.L., Philippine Association GONZALES, Mr. Manuel, Advertising Associates of Manila NERI, Mr. Felino DEL ROSARIO, Mr. Marioano, Philippine Int'l. Director, LIONS Intn. GAMBOA, Dr. Melquiades, Counsellor, Philippine Embassy, Wash. FOLEY, Mr. Joseph, Ansor Corporation, New York, N.Y. PECK, Colonel Harry, American War Veteran from New Mexico KESCH, Mr. William, City Editor, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Journal PEABODY, Mr. George, Philippine Association [Public Papers: Remarks Upon Accepting a Piece of the Rock of Corregidor as a Gift From the People of the Philippines]
12:15 pm	July 10, 1951	Honorable Loy W. Henderson, American Ambassador to India (Asked for this through Division of Protocol)
12:25 pm	July 10, 1951	(General Omar N. Bradley, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff) OFF THE RECORD
12:30 pm	July 10, 1951	(Honorable George C. Marshall, the Secretary of Defense) OFF THE RECORD
1:00 pm	July 10, 1951	(Lunch)
3:00 pm	July 10, 1951	Honorable James Blair, Lt. Governor of Missouri (Called Mr. Matthew Connelly yesterday and asked for this.)
3:15 pm	July 10, 1951	Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney, Wyoming (Called Mr. Matthew Connelly last week and asked for this.)
3:30 pm	July 10, 1951	(Honorable Dan Kimball, Under Secretary of the Navy) (Honorable Francis Whitehair) OFF THE RECORD
3:35 pm	July 10, 1951	Honorable William M. Boyle, Jr., Chairman, Democratic National Committee (Usual weekly appointment)
4:00 pm	July 10, 1951	(Honorable John W. Snyder, the Secretary of the Treasury) OFF THE RECORD
8:00 pm	July 10, 1951	The following met with the President at the Blair House "off the record": A.F.of L. Hon. William Green Hon. George Meany Hon. Dan Tracy Hon. Al Hays C.I.O. Hon. Philip Murray Hon. James Carey Hon. Emil Rieve Hon. Jack Livingston Railroad Brotherhoods Hon. George Leighty Hon. Art Lyons White House Staff (Messrs. David Stowe, Carroll, Charles Murphy)
10:00 am	July 11, 1951	(Staff)
11:00 am	July 11, 1951	Mr. George T. League Mr. Lloyd Onion Mr. Phil Heishley (General Harry Vaughan) (Arranged by General Harry Vaughan; these gentlemen are from George Washington Masonic Temple in Alexandria. Brought the President an album of photographs taken when the President visited the Temple June 6th on the occasion of the unveiling of a statue of the President in the Temple.)
11:15 am	July 11, 1951	(Honorable Maple Harl, Chairman, F.D.I.C.) OFF THE RECORD (Asked if he could come in Off the Record)
11:30 am	July 11, 1951	Senator Paul H. Douglas, Illinois (Called Mr. Matthew Connelly last week and asked for this.)
11:45 am	July 11, 1951	Congressman Mike Mansfield, Montana (Called Mr. Matthew Connelly last week and asked for this.)
12:00 pm	July 11, 1951	Honorable John Simmons, Chief of Protocol, Dept. of State Hussein Kamel Selim Bey, Dean of Faculty of Commerce of Fouad University (Egypt) Mohamed Ali El-Kilany Bey, Under Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture Ahmed Kassem Gouda, Newspaper editor and radio commentator Ibrahim Izzeddin, Motion Picture producer Hussain Mones, Asst. Professor of History, Fouad I Univ. Mohamed Ibrahim Zein El Din, President, General Union of Cairo Motor Drivers Mrs. Asma H. Fahmy, Professor of Education and Director of the Institute of Education for Girls, Ibrahim University Miss Laila Shukry, Graduate Student in social science Paul Mather, American Council of Education Arthur S. Adams, of American Council of Education (Town Hall, Inc., has brought to the U.S. for six week tour eight prominent Egyptians; Town Hall requested State Department to arrange this appointment, and State felt it would contribute materially to the U.S. "Campaign of Truth" and to the objectives of the Department's United States Information and Educational Exchange Program.)
12:15 pm	July 11, 1951	Honorable Gordon Gray (Called Mr. Matthew Connelly last week and asked for this.)
12:30 pm	July 11, 1951	(Honorable Philip B. Perlman) Solicitor General OFF THE RECORD
12:45 pm	July 11, 1951	(Mr. and Mrs. Burtis N. Little, Jr.) OFF THE RECORD (Came to see Mr. Matthew Connelly and saw the President Off the Record)
1:00 pm	July 11, 1951	(Lunch)
3:00 pm	July 11, 1951	(Admiral Forrest P. Sherman, Chief of Naval Operations) OFF THE RECORD
3:25 pm	July 11, 1951	(Honorable Samuel I. Rosenman) OFF THE RECORD
3:30 pm	July 11, 1951	(National Security Council) OFF THE RECORD
3:40 pm	July 11, 1951	(Honorable Dean Acheson, Secretary of State) (Honorable George C. Marshall, Secretary of Defense) (Remained after meeting of National Security Council for talk with the President. Also the following: (General Omar N. Bradley, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff) (Admiral Forrest Sherman, Chief of Naval Operations) OFF THE RECORD
3:55 pm	July 11, 1951	(Honorable Charles Wilson, Director of Defense Mobilization) OFF THE RECORD
8:00 am	July 12, 1951	[Public Papers: Letter to Committee Chairmen on the Need for a Pay Increase for Federal Employees]
9:45 am	July 12, 1951	Honorable William Green, President, A.F.of L. Mr. Leo George, President, Post Office Clerks Mr. Joseph A. Campbell, President, American Federation of Government Employees Mr.Jerome Keating, Secretary, National Association of Letter Carriers (President Green called Mr. Connelly yesterday and asked for this.)
10:00 am	July 12, 1951	The following Congressional Leaders were called to the White House for a meeting with the President in the Cabinet Room: The Vice President [Alben W. Barkley] The Speaker [Sam Rayburn] Senator Ernest McFarland~Senator Lyndon Johnson Senator Allen J. Ellender~Congressman John McCormack Senator Kenneth McKellar~Congressman Clarence Cannon Congressman Percy Priest~Congressman Harold Cooley
11:00 am	July 12, 1951	The Secretary of Commerce, Honorable Charles Sawyer Honorable Manly Fleischmann, Acting Administrator, NPA (Arranged at request of Secretary of Commerce)
11:15 am	July 12, 1951	Senator Harley M. Kilgore, West Virignia (Asked to come in and talk about special election to be held in his State to name successor to Congressman John Kee.)
11:30 am	July 12, 1951	Congressman Byron G. Rogers, Colorado, and his two children (Asked Mr. Connelly if he might present his children to the President.)
11:45 am	July 12, 1951	Honorable K.T. Keller, Director, Office of Guided Missles, Department of Defense (Asked if he might bring his report to the President.)
12:00 pm	July 12, 1951	Mr. Abraham Feinberg, of New York (Called Mr. Connelly last week and asked for this; Mr. Niles also told Mr. Connelly he thought it a good idea to have Mr. Feinberg see the President at this time.)
12:15 pm	July 12, 1951	Congressman LeRoy Johnson, of California (R) (Asked to come in and invite the President to come to California to visit the Central Valley Project at Tracy Pumping Plant, Tracy, California)
12:30 pm	July 12, 1951	Honorable Dean Acheson, the Secretary of State (Usual Thursday appointment)
1:00 pm	July 12, 1951	(Lunch)
3:00 pm	July 12, 1951	(Mr. Fred Latimer) OFF THE RECORD (Arranged at request of Miss Mildred Dryden, who called Mr. Connelly; came in to see Mr. Connelly and saw the President Off the Record.)
3:30 pm	July 12, 1951	(Pre Press)
4:00 pm	July 12, 1951	Press & Radio Conference [Public Papers]
8:00 am	July 13, 1951	[Public Papers: Special Message to the Congress on the Employment of Agricultural Workers from Mexico]
10:00 am	July 13, 1951	(Staff)
10:45 am	July 13, 1951	(General W. Bedell Smith, Chairman, National Security Council) (Mr. James Lay, Jr., Executive Secretary, NSC) OFF THE RECORD
11:00 am	July 13, 1951	Cabinet [Meeting] (All present except Treasury, and Under Secretary Foley represented Secretary Snyder.)
11:45 am	July 13, 1951	(Mr. Henri Warren, of Missouri) OFF THE RECORD
11:55 am	July 13, 1951	[Public Papers: Remarks to W. Averell Harriman Before His Departure on a Mission to Iran]
12:00 pm	July 13, 1951	Mr. Lee Price, Jr., President, U.S. Junior Chamber of Commerce Mr. Robert D. Ladd, Executive Vice President Mr. Alvah B. Adam, Vice President Mr. A.D. Griffith, Vice President Mr. P.M. Deming, President, D.C. Junior Chamber Mr. Paul N. Hawkins, National Director, D.C. Junior Chamber Mr. J.R. Pat Gorman, Past Vice President, U.S. Junior Chamber (Mr. Pat Gorman called Mr. Connelly last week and arranged this.)
12:15 pm	July 13, 1951	Hon. Ward M. Canaday, U.S. Co-Chairman, Caribbean Commission (Called Mr. Connelly last week and asked for this.)
12:17 pm	July 13, 1951	(General Omar Bradley, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff) OFF THE RECORD
12:30 pm	July 13, 1951	(Honorable Frank Pace, the Secretary of the Army) OFF THE RECORD (Asked that this appointment be Off the Record)
1:00 pm	July 13, 1951	Mr. Jack Gorrie, Acting Chairman, National Security Resources Board) (Honorable David Stowe) OFF THE RECORD
1:10 pm	July 13, 1951	(Mr. William McEvoy, Vice President, Pan-American Airways) OFF THE RECORD
1:15 pm	July 13, 1951	(Lunch)
3:00 pm	July 13, 1951	The Joint Chiefs of Staff General J. Lawton Collins, Chief of Staff,USA Admiral Forrest P. Sherman, Chief of Naval Operations General Hoyt S. Vandenberg, Chief of Staff, USAF (General Bradley absent)
6:15 pm	July 13, 1951	(The President left for Union Station with Mrs. Truman to meet Miss Margaret Truman on her arrival from New York.)
8:00 am	July 14, 1951	[Public Papers: Letter to the Executive Secretary, National Security Council, Requesting a Study of the Employee Security Program]
8:30 am	July 14, 1951	[Public Papers: Message to the President of France on Bastille Day]
9:45 am	July 14, 1951	(Admiral Robert Dennison) OFF THE RECORD
10:00 am	July 14, 1951	(Admiral Robert Dennison) (Mr. Charles Murphy) OFF THE RECORD
10:35 am	July 14, 1951	(Mr. Charles Murphy) (Mr. George Elsey) OFF THE RECORD (Mr. William Hassett)
10:45 am	July 14, 1951	(Honorable Frederick Lawton, Director, Bureau of the Budget) OFF THE RECORD
11:00 am	July 14, 1951	(Admiral Robert Dennison) OFF THE RECORD
11:55 am	July 14, 1951	(Mr. Charles Murphy) OFF THE RECORD
1:00 pm	July 14, 1951	(The President, accompanied by Mrs. Truman and Miss Margaret Truman, left for luncheon aboard the USS WILLIAMSBURG, where they remained for a weekend cruise.)
1:00 am	July 15, 1951	(The President, with his family, remained on board the USS WILLLIAMSBURG all day Sunday.)
7:25 am	July 16, 1951	(The President returned to the Naval Gun Factory from a weekend cruise on the Potomac aboard the USS Williamsburg and motored to the Blair House.)
7:55 am	July 16, 1951	(The President left Blair House for the Mayflower Hotel, where he attended a breakfast given by Governor Forrest Smith of Missouri in honor of him and members of the Missouri Delegation (Democrats) in the Congress.) OFF THE RECORD
9:30 am	July 16, 1951	(Mr. James Lay, Executive Secretary, National Security Council) (Admiral Robert Dennison) OFF THE RECORD
9:50 am	July 16, 1951	(Honorable Joseph E. Davies) OFF THE RECORD
9:55 am	July 16, 1951	(Honorable Charles Wilson, Director of Defense Mobilization) OFF THE RECORD
9:57 am	July 16, 1951	(The Vice President [Alben W. Barkley] and son) OFF THE RECORD
10:00 am	July 16, 1951	The 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
11:00 am	July 16, 1951	(Staff)
11:40 am	July 16, 1951	(Mr. James McCahey) OFF THE RECORD
12:00 pm	July 16, 1951	The President signed H.R.2395, an Act "To amend title 18 of the United States Code, entitled "Crimes and Criminal Procedure', to provide basic authority for certain activities of the United States Secret Service, and for other purposes." (present: Secretary of Treasury [John W. Snyder], Under Secretary, U.E. Baughman, Chief of Secret Service, Mr. Harry Neal, Mr. Don Hansen)
12:30 pm	July 16, 1951	Honorable Dean Acheson, the Secretary of State (Usual Monday appointment)
1:00 pm	July 16, 1951	(Lunch)
3:05 pm	July 16, 1951	(General Omar N. Bradley, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff) OFF THE RECORD
3:10 pm	July 16, 1951	Honorable Louis Brownlow (Presented to the President a complete set of McGuffey's Reader; arranged by Mr. Hassett)
3:15 pm	July 16, 1951	Senator Burnet Maybank, South Carolina (One-half hour; called Mr. Matthew Connelly last week and said that he had returned to town and was available whenever the President wished to see him; Mr. Matthew Connelly told the President and then arranged this appointment.)
3:30 pm	July 16, 1951	(Mr. James McCahey) (Mr. Henry Crown and son John) OFF THE RECORD
3:40 pm	July 16, 1951	(Mr. Eben Ayers) OFF THE RECORD
9:45 am	July 17, 1951	(Mr. James Lay, Executive Secretary, National Security Council) (Admiral Robert Dennison) OFF THE RECORD
10:00 am	July 17, 1951	(Staff)
11:00 am	July 17, 1951	Bishop G.L. DeLapp, Presiding Bishop, the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Independence, Missouri (Bishop DeLapp wrote to the President July 5th, asking if he might come in and pay respects while in the city.)
11:15 am	July 17, 1951	(Mr. Alfred J. Kirsch, Vice President & Treasurer, West Disinfecting Co., New York) OFF THE RECORD (Came to see Mr. Matthew Connelly and saw the President off the record. Arranged at suggestion of Colonel Louis Johnson)
11:30 am	July 17, 1951	Senator William Benton, Connecticut (Called Mr. Matthew Connelly last week and asked for this.)
11:45 am	July 17, 1951	Honorable Forrest Smith, Governor of Missouri (Asked Mr. Matthew Connelly last week when talking from Jefferson City on arrangements for the breakfast held this past Monday if he might have chance for talk with the President while in Washington.)