Daily Appointments of Harry S. Truman
November 15, 1945
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| Press and Radio Conference [Public Papers] | ||
| Mr. Byron Price | ||
| Mr. James G. Patton; Mr. Russell Smith, Sec. National Farmers Union (To lay before the President some important agricultural legislative matters) | ||
| Mr. Edward Maher, Editor of Liberty Magazine | ||
| Adm. Ernest J. King | ||
| The American Battle Monuments Commission: Mr. Robert G. Woodside, Vice Chairman; Mr. David A. Reed; Mr. Finis J. Garrett; Mr. D. John Markey; Mrs. Cora W. Baker; Mr. Leslie L. Biffle | ||
| The Attorney General [Tom C. Clark]; Mr. Joseph Keenan | ||
| Congr. William J. Green, Jr., Pa. (To talk about Veterans Hospital in Philadelphia, and also a blind Marine Veteran whom the Congressman feels has been slighted in some way) | ||
| (Lunch) | ||
| Hon. Clement R. Attlee, Prime Minister of Great Britain; The Secretary of State [James F. Byrnes] | ||
| Executive Orders: [9657 PROVIDING FOR THE REPRESENTATION OF THE UNITED STATES IN THE OBSERVATION OF ELECTIONS IN GREECE] | ||
| The Postmaster General [Robert E. Hannegan] | ||
| Hon. Clement R. Attlee, the Prime Minister of Great Britain (To say goodbye) | ||
| Cabinet [Meeting] | ||
| Sen. Robert M. LaFollette, Jr., Wisc.; Mr. Harry Struhldreher, Coach of Football Team, University of Wisconsin; Members of the Football Team | ||
| Hon. Paul A. Porter, Chairman, F.C.C. | ||
| Hon. Alexander Kirk, American Ambassador to Italy (to pay respects) | ||
| Gen. Henry H. Arnold; Dr. Gilbert Grosvenor; Dr. John Oliver LaGorce; Mr. Robert V. Fleming Mr. Thomas W. McKnew; Mr. Alexander Wetmore; Mr. Franklin L. Fisher; Mr. Melville B. Grosvenor (This evening at Constitution Hall the Natl. Geographic Society will hold the first of its meetings for the winter and Gen. Arnold will deliver illustrated address "Our Army Defenses." At this time the Society will honor Arnold by conferring upon him its Hubbard Medal for his achievements in field of aviation from 1911 to 1945. They asked the President to attend and present medal, but were told it would have to be done in Executive Office.) | ||
| Sen. James O. Eastland, Miss., Maj. Frederick Sullins; Hon. and Mrs. Leland Speed (Sullins is editor of Jackson, Miss. Daily News and an old Missourian - Speed is mayor of Jackson, Miss.) | ||
| Mrs. Jud Collier, Vice Chairman of Democratic Committee, Robertson County, Texas (In Washington working with Texas Congressmen on the Full Employment Bill. Also Chairman of the Women's Committee on Educational Freedom in Texas. Wants to talk re political situation in Texas - at request of Congr. Wright Patman) | ||
| Mr. John Gunther, author | ||
| Gen. George C. Marshall | ||
| (Lunch) | ||
| The Postmaster General [Robert E. Hannegan]; Hon. W. Stuart Symington | ||
| Hon. MacKenzie King, the Prime Minister of Canada | ||
| (Judge Rosenman; George Allen, et al - re Health program) | ||
| Hon. Paul V. McNutt | ||
| Admiral Chester Nimitz | ||
| (Lunch) | ||
| [Public Papers: Special Message to the Congress Recommending a Comprehensive Health Program] | ||
| Sen. Kenneth McKellar; Sen. Lister Hill Speaker Sam Rayburn; Congr. John W. McCormack | ||
| Hon. Paul M. Herzog, Chairman, Natl. Labor Relations Bd.; Mr. Gerald D. Reilly, Member; Mr. John M. Houston, Member; Mr. David A. Morse (To discuss current problems of the Board.) | ||
| (Mr. Sam Marx; Mr. Tony Owen; Mr. Carter Barron) (Re atomic bomb) | ||
| Mr. Willard Shelton (Principal economic editorial writer of Chicago Sun - arranged at request of Tom Reynolds of that paper.) | ||
| The Secretary of State [James F. Byrnes] | ||
| (Lunch) | ||
| Hon. John Fahey | ||
| Mr. Byron Price | ||
| Mr. P.M. Knoll, President Gleaner Harvester Co., Independence, Mo. (Mayor Sermon wired, expressing hope that the President would be able to see him) | ||
| Sen. George L. Radcliffe, Md. | ||
| Hon. Francis B. Sayre | ||
| Congr. Walter K. Granger, Utah | ||
| Hon. William Jennings Bryan, Jr., Collector of the Port of Los Angeles | ||
| Mr. Frank Land and group of Grand Masters of Mexico: Mr. Walter Turnpaugh; Judge Valentin Rincon; Dr. Eliod Garcia Treveno | ||
| (Mr. James Doarn) | ||
| (Lunch) | ||
| Press and Radio Conference [Public Papers] | ||
| On this date the trial of the major Nazi war criminals by the International Military Tribunal began at the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg, Germany. See student research file The War Crimes Trials at Nuremberg: documents, photographs and more. | ||
| Executive Orders: [9658 POSSESSION, CONTROL, AND OPERATION OF THE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM, PLANTS, AND FACILITIES OF THE CAPITAL TRANSIT COMPLANY, WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA] | ||
| Executive Orders: [9659 EXTENSION OF TRUST PERIODS ON INDIAN LANDS EXPIRING DURING CALENDAR YEAR 1946] | ||
| [Public Papers: Letter to General Hans Kramer Appointing Him U.S. Representative in Negotiations Between Colorado and Kansas for Division of Waters of Arkansas River] | ||
| [Public Papers: Statement by the President Concerning Government Operation of Transit Facilities in the District of Columbia] | ||
| Hon. Kalla Teodor Jutila, Minister of Finland (to present credentials) | ||
| Congr. Orville Zimmerman, Mo., with officers of the Missouri Society, as follows: Mrs. Harry S. Truman; Miss Margaret Truman; Mr. and Mrs. Claude Houchins; Mr. and Mrs. Walter H. Maloney; Mr. and Mrs. Arthur W. Brown; Mr. William C. Cole; Mr. Croid L. Reddish; Mr. Eric Jannson; Miss Eva Jane Lewis; Mrs. Orville Zimmerman (To confer resolution of Life Membership upon the President) | ||
| Dr. J.C. Bradley, Sec. of the American Bible Society; Rev. Edgar C. Powers; Mr. Frank Land; Dr. Wm. L. Darby (to present a Bible to the President) | ||
| The Secretary of the Navy [James Forrestal]; Sen. David I. Walsh, Mass.; Congr. Carl Vinson, Ga.; Adm. Louis E. Denfeld | ||
| Hon. Harry B. Mitchell | ||
| Presentation to the President of the Gourgas Medal by the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite for the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction of the United States, with the following present: Dr. Melvin M. Johnson, Boston; Hon. Geo. E. Bushnell, Detroit; Hon. Edw. W. Wheeler, Brunswick, Me.; Mr. Frank C. Allen, Portland, Me.; Dr. Allen M. Wilson, Manchester, N.H.; Dr. Robert J. Arnett, Uniontown, Pa.; Mr. Samuel H. Baynard, Jr., Boston; Mr. F. Elmer Raschig, Indianapolis; Mr. Carl A. Miller, Chicago; Mr. Chas. E. Cooke, Lowell, Mass.; Mr. James H. Stacey, Windsor, Vt..; Hon. Arthur Capper; Hon. Forrest C. Donnell, Mo.; Hon. Tom Connally, Texas, Hon. Warren R. Austin, Vt.; Hon. Harry F. Byrd, Va.; Hon. Edw. V. Robertson, Wyo.; Hon. Robert F. Rich, Pa.; Hon. Harve Tibbett, Pa.; Hon. Robert L. Rodgers, Pa.; Mr. Justice Harold H. Burton; Mr. Frank S. Land; Mr. Carl H. Claudy; Mr. Edw. A. King, Pittsburgh; Hon. Clinton P. Anderson; Hon. Sam Jackson | ||
| (Lunch) (In the Office of the Postmaster General [Robert E. Hannegan]) | ||
| (Hon. David Niles) | ||
| The Secretary of the Treasury [Fred Vinson] | ||
| (Mr. Frank Land; Mr. Jerry Farnsworth) | ||
| Thanksgiving Day | ||
| [Public Papers: Citation Accompanying the Legion of Merit Awarded to Crown Prince Olav of Norway] | ||
| Cabinet [Meeting] | ||
| Mr. Maple Harl, State Bank Commissioner, Denver. | ||
| Hon. Harold Smith | ||
| Mr. Arch Stafford, Pres. American War Dads; Mr. Earl W. Shinn; Mr. B. Roy Dudley (Stafford elected at their last convention and wishes to present to the President set of resolutions which were adopted at their convention in St. Louis) | ||
| Hon. J. Balfour, the Minister of Great Britain; The Very Rev. Hewlett Johnson, Dean of Canterbury; Mr. Corliss Lamont; Rev. Howard Melish (The Dean is in this country to participate in meetings being held by National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, Inc., in commemoration of anniversary of establishment of diplomatic relations between two countries and the anniversary of the founding of the Soviet State) | ||
| Gen. Joseph T. McNarney | ||
| Col. Delbert Ausmus (Bringing to the President piece of flag that flew over Corregidor when it surrendered) | ||
| (Lunch) | ||
| The Secretary of Labor [Lewis B. Schwellenbach]; (Dr. John Steelman); (Hon. John Snyder); (Hon. Samuel I. Rosenman) | ||
| (Hon. Samuel I. Rosenman; Hon. John Snyder) | ||
| (Dinner of the Society of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick of the City of Washington, Mayflower Hotel, Grand Ballroom - They want the President to come for cocktails at 6:30) | ||
| Sen. Kenneth McKellar, Tenn.; Sen. Lister Hill, Ala.; Speaker Sam Rayburn, Texas; Congr. John McCormack, Mass. | ||
| Sen. Elbert D. Thomas, Utah | ||
| The Secretary of the Interior [Harold L. Ickes] | ||
| Mr. George Killion; Mr. Richard Nacy | ||
| H.E. Senor Don Emilio Garcia Godoy, the Ambassador of the Dominican Republic | ||
| (Lv. for Pentagon Bldg.) | ||
| The President awarded the D.S.M. to General George C. Marshall at the Pentagon Bldg.) | ||
| (Lunch) | ||
| (Mr. Jerry Fransworth, artist, with his photographer, to take pictures of the President's hands, as preliminary to doing his portrait - Mr. Farnsworth will do actual work early in the mornings while the President works on mail) | ||
| The Secretary of State [James F. Byrnes] | ||
| Congressman Mike Mansfield, Montana | ||
| Congressman Adolph J. Sabath, Ill. | ||
| Sen. Joseph H. Ball, Minn. | ||
| Hon. William D. Pawley, U.S. Ambassador to Peru | ||
| The Chinese Ambassador | ||
| Congressman Joe Hendricks, Fla.; Mr. Hal P. Phillips | ||
| The President presented decorations to representatives of the British Chiefs of Staff - those present: Field Marshal Sir Henry Maitland Wilson and Lady Wilson, and their daughter, Maud Wilson; Admiral of the Fleet Sir James Somerville and his daughter, Second Officer Rachel Somerville, WRNS; Lt. Gen. Sir Gordon N. Macready and Lady Macready; Air Marshal Douglas Colyer and Mrs. Colyer; Brig. A.T. Cornwall-Jones and Mrs. Cornwall-Jones; Commander R.D. Coleridge, RN, and Mrs. Coleridge; The Military, Naval, and Air Attaches of the British Embassy and their wives, as follows: Captain E.M.C. Abel Smith and Lady Smith; Colonel Kenneth Mackessack; Group Captain R.J. Legg and Mrs. Legg; The United States Chiefs of Staff, as follows: General George C. Marshall; Brig. Gen A.J. McFarland, USA; Captain C.J. Moore, USN; The Personal Aides of the Representatives of the British Chiefs of Staff, as follows: Major John Miller; Flag Lieutenant Maureen Stuart-Clark, WRNS; Captain E.C. Ablitt; Flag Lt. Mary M. Amphlett, WAAF | ||
| [Public Papers: Citation Accompanying the Distinguished Service Medal Awarded to Field Marshal Sir Henry M. Wilson] | ||
| [Public Papers: Citation Accompanying the Legion of Merit Awarded to Lieutenant General Sir Gordon N. Macready] | ||
| [Public Papers: Citation Accompanying the Legion of Merit Awarded to Air Marshal Douglas Colyer] | ||
| [Public Papers: Citation Accompanying the Legion of Merit Awarded to Fleet Admiral Sir James F. Somerville] | ||
| Hon. Fiorello H. LaGuardia (asked to see the President while he is here testifying before Senate Committee on Banking and Currency | ||
| (Lunch) (Cabinet at the White House) | ||
| (Dentist) | ||
| [Public Papers: Letter Transmitting Report on the Occupation of Germany to the Secretaries of State, War, and Navy] |