Daily Appointments of Harry S. Truman
January 12, 1946
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| Mr. Wall Doxey; Mr. Kenneth Romney (A social call for few minutes) | ||
| (The President saw Mr. Benjamin Fairless and Mr. Philip Murray separately in his office after both had conferred for four hours in Cabinet Room with the Secretary of Labor [Lewis B. Schwellenbach], Hon. John Snyder and Dr. John R. Steelman) | ||
| Executive Orders: [9677 Authorizing the Appointment of Certain Persons at the Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site National Park Service, Without Regard to the Civil Service Rules; Jan. 14, 1946; not published] | ||
| Executive Orders: [9676 TERMINAL DATE FOR FILING APPLICATION FOR NON-NECESSITY CERTIFICATE UNDER SECTION 124(d) OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE] | ||
| Executive Orders: [9678 AMENDMENT OF EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 8743 OF APRIL 23. 1941, EXTENDING THE CLASSIFIED CIVIL SERVICE(1)] | ||
| Senator Kenneth McKellar, Tenn.; Senator Alben W. Barkley, Ky.; Congr. John W. McCormack, Mass. | ||
| General Dwight D. Eisenhower; Brig. Gen. Butler B. Miltonberger | ||
| Hon. Herbert Morrison, M.P.; Hon. J. Balfour, Minister of Great Britain | ||
| The President will receive following members of the United States Mission to Observe the Greek Elections: Dr. Henry F. Grady; Mr. Harry J. Malony, Maj. Gen. U.S.A.; Mr. Jospeh Coy Green; Mr. James Grafton Rogers; Mr. William W. Waymack; Mr. Herman B. Wells; Mr. Walter H. Mallory; Mr. Foy D. Kohler; Hon. Loy Henderson, Dir. Office of Near Eastern and African Affairs, State Department. | ||
| Most Reverend Samuel Alphonsus Stritch (Cardinal-designate; Gael Sullivan. | ||
| (Mr. Bryce Smith, Mr. George L. Morris) | ||
| (Lunch) | ||
| The President accompanied the Secretary of the Interior [Harold L. Ickes] on Inspection of bridge sites - went up in Washington Monument, visited Lincoln and Jefferson Memorials. | ||
| Honorable James A. Farley | ||
| (Hon. Van A. Bittner) OFF THE RECORD | ||
| Mr. Guy Vaughan (Of Curtis-Wright Co. - Mr. Roach at Committee wrote that Vaughan wanted to see the President) | ||
| Hon. William Phillips and members of Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry: Mr. Jospeh C. Hutcheson, American Chairman; Mr. Frank Aydelotte; Mr. Frank W. Buxton; Mr. Bartley C. Crum; Mr. James G. McDonald; Mr. Leslie L. Rood, American Secretary; Sir John E. Singleton, British Chairman; Mr. Wilfred F. Crick; Mr. Richard H.S. Crossman; Sir Frederick Leggett; Maj. Reginald E. Manningham-Buller; Lord Morrison; Mr. Harold Vincent, British Secretary | ||
| Mrs. Galdys Tillett, Vice Chairman, Dem. Natl. Com.; Miss India Edwards (In Washington and asked for the appointment to discuss problems relating to women) | ||
| Mr. and Mrs. Byron Price; Mrs. Jane Hickey (Mrs. Price's aunt) (The President will present to Mr. Price, the Medal for Merit) [Public Papers: Citation Accompanying Medal for Merit Presented to Byron Price] | ||
| H.E. Senor Don Pedro Beltran, the Ambassador of Peru (Retiring Ambassador and asked to say "goodbye") | ||
| The President will present the Legion of Merit to Lt. Colonel Dewitt Greer; Chief Warrant Officer Frank G. Stoner; Chief Warrant Officer Horace K. Caldwell [Public Papers: Citations Accompanying Legion of Merit Presented to Three Members of the White House Signal Detachment, U.S. Army] | ||
| (Lunch) | ||
| Lt. Gen. Edmund B. Gregory; Hon. Kenneth Royall, Acting Secretary of War; John Snyder. | ||
| The Postmaster General [Robert E. Hannegan]; Mayor Edward J. Kelly of Chicago | ||
| Press and Radio Conference [Public Papers] | ||
| Executive Orders: [9679 AMENDMENT OF EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 9547 OF MAY 2, 1945(1), ENTITLED "PROVIDING FOR REPRESENTATION OF THE UNITED STATES IN PREPARING AND PROSECUTING CHARGES OF ATROCITIES AND WAR CRIMES AGAINST LEADERS OF THE EUROPEAN AXIS POWERS AND THEIR PRINCIPAL AGENTS A] | ||
| Hon. Marriner S. Eccles, Chairman, Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System (He asked for the appointment) | ||
| Senator Harley M. Kilgore, W. Va. (Says very urgent that he see the President as soon as possible re steel situation as well as Scientific Research Bill) | ||
| (Mr. Leighton Shields) | ||
| Mr. and Mrs. John Oeser, of West Side, Iowa; Mr. James H. Allen of Station WNAX) ("The Typical Midwest Farmer" award for 1945 conferred upon Oeser on Labor Day, last, at Yankton, S. Dakota, before 70,000 people who had gathered for third annual "WNAX Midwest Farmer Day" as a means of honoring the Midwest Farmers for their increased production of food products and their contribution to war effort. Oeser is real dirt farmer, was selected by newspaper editors, county agents and civic organizations of the five states, Iowa, Minn., Nebr., North and South Dakota. Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy was principal speaker at ceremony and one of committee making final selection from 8500 nominees. This trip part of reward, and will be all of week of Jan. 14th) | ||
| The President received the Members of the Soil Conservation Committee headed by Governor Robert Kerr of Oklahoma: P.G. Compton; W.M. Hodgson, Bay Minette, Alabama; H.L. Anderson, William Waldron, Arizona; Louis Fiscal, Florence, Arizona; Harry Stewart, Phoenix, Arizona; D.D. Terry, Arkansas; H.K. Thatcher, Arkansas; H.B. Cuffman, Olathe, Colorado; D.G. Hale, Colorado Springs, Colo.; Geo. Everett, Salida, Colorado; Dr. Raymond Kienholz, Hartford, Conn.; Hon. Harry F. Farnham, Conn.; Geo L. Schuster, Delaware; Alden P. Short, Georgetown, Delaware; Sherman Webb, Delaware; Issac Thomas, Dover, Delaware; Irving Hudson, Georgetown, Delaware; Z. Clarence Herlond, Micanapy, Florida; T.B. Thornton, Hartwell, Georgia; J.C. Wise, Sumpter County, Ga.; Robert D. Tisinger, Carrollton, Ga.; A.C. Richardson, Montezuma, Ga., Charles Wood, Boise, Idaho; Clifford Hope, Kansas; Congreeman Reece, Kansas; Harold Browning, Frankfort, Ky.; A. Threklkeld, Kentucky; R.D. McMurty, Ky; Dr. T.B. Symons, Maryland; T. Roy Brooks, Bel Air, Maryland; Ed Holter, Middleton, Maryland; Roy Weazley, Hagerstown, Maryland; P.E. Clark, Marlboro, Maryland; Mitchell Griggs, Md; J. M. Hashall, Freeland, Maryland; C. Townsend, Marlboro, Md.; Ed Reckard, Jr., Maryland; Sam Woods, Md.; Vernon St. Clair, Jarretsville, Md.; Frank Lupo, Sparks, Md.; Ed L. Reckard, Sr., Md.; W. Lee Linkons, Md.; Fred Wilson, Md.; Fred L. Bull, Md.; Fred Harrison, Lawson, Md; Walter Burall, Frederick, Md.; John Cotton, College Park, Md.; D.M. Parks, Cockeysville, Md.; Ayers Brinser, Mass; R.G. Hill, Lansing, Mich.; Chas. Figy, Lansing, Mich; R.L. Hill, Caro, Michigan; R.A. Trovatten, Minn.; Chester Wilson, Minn.; W.A. Berritt, Minn.; Paul Measell, Miss.; Ransome Aldrich, Miss.; Albert H. Kruse, Helena, Montana; Alfred Anderson, Sioux Pass, Mont.; Clifford D. Stearns, Hinsdale, New Hampshire; J.W. Wilkinson, New Mexico; A.C. Edwards, Hookerton, North Carolina; W.W. Eagles, Macclesfield, North Carolina; Carl T. Hicks, Walstonburg, N.C.; C.W. Miller, Tyler, N.D.; Ed Kruse, Wahpeton, N.D.; Otis Tossett, Lansford, N.D.; Ingward C. Reiten, Petersburg, N.D.; Jospeh Adams, Reynolds, N.D.; Erwin Bourgois, Bismark, N.D.; A.D. McKinnor, Bismark, N.D.; Perry T. Ford, Columbua, Ohio; Claude Ingram, Hollis, Oklahoma; A.F. Houston, Grove, Okla.; Clarence Reeds, Oklahoma City, Okla.; A.P. Atkins, Guymon, Okla.; Dr. H.G. Bennett, Stillwater, Okla.; E.B. Smith, Oklahoma City, Okla.; Hon. Miles Horst, Pa.; Dr. R.F. Poole, Clemson, S.C.; E.C. McArthur, Goffney, S.C.; C.B. Player, Bishopsville, S.C.; Hon. Harold H. Earthman, Tenn.; E.C. McReynolds, Knoxville, Tenn.; Walter Fletcher, Bells, Tenn; Jospeh E. Carrigan, Vermont; John H. Daniel, Va.; S.A. Ozlin, Va.; J.O. Knapp, Morgantown, West Va.; E.D. Knight, Charlestown, W. Va.; Ross H. Tuckwiller, Lewisburg, West Va.; R. Carl Andrews, Charleston, West Va.; G.M. Robertson, West Va.; J.B. McLaughlin, Charleston, West Va.; D.T. Pough, Phillippi, West Va; Mamre H. Ward, Durand, Wisconsin; Ben. F. Rusy, Madison, Wisconsin (These people represent their respective Governors at this conference, which has been meeting in Washington yesterday and today - arranged by Govern Robert S. Kerr, Okla., who will accompany the group. States whos delegates' names have not yet reached us are, Maine, R.I., Wyo., Va., S. Dak., Mass., Mo., Idaho, but they will be represented) | ||
| (Mr. Gunnar Mykland) (Off Record - arranged by Miss Rose Conway) | ||
| Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, Pres. Fed. Council of the Churches of Christ in America; Dr. Franklin C. Fry, Pres. United Lutheran Chruch of America; Dr. Roswell P. Barnes, Actg. Gen. Secy., Fed. Council, etc. (To report on their trip to Germany - they requested the appointment) | ||
| Mr. Ralph Flanders (Pres. Federal Reserve, Boston, also Pres. Jones-Lamson Machine Tool Co. - appointment arranged at request of Mr. John Snyder) | ||
| (Hon. George Allen; Mr. Walter Mack; Mr. Quentin Reynolds) | ||
| Sen. Kenneth McKellar, Tenn; Sen. Tom Stewart, Tenn; Mrs. H.L. Bateman, of Nashville; Mr. C.L. Brockett, Supt. Davidson County County Schools; Miss Mary Jones, Supervisor County Schools; Mr. Thurman Sensing of Nashville. (This is Tenn. Sesquicentennial Comm., to invite Pres. to Tenn this spring when State celebrates 150th anniv. statehood) | ||
| Commander Maxwell Cohen, National Commander, Jewish War Veterans of the United States Major Alfred Fleishman (Asked for this appointment in order present to the President, for his approval, their program of rehabilitation for the returned serviceman.) | ||
| (Lunch) | ||
| The Secretary of Labor [Lewis B. Schwellenbach]; Hon. John Snyder; Dr. John Steelman; Mr. Philip Murray; Mr. Benjamin Fairless | ||
| (Mr. Bryce Smith) | ||
| The Secretary of Labor [Lewis B. Schwellenbach] | ||
| (Leave for Consitution Hall to attend National Symphony) | ||
| Executive Orders: [9681 Designating the Honorable Jorge L. Cordova as Acting Judge of the District Court of the United States for Puerto Rico; Jan. 17, 1946; not published] | ||
| Executive Orders: [9680 ABOLISHING THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TYPHUS COMMISSION] | ||
| Mr. Sidney Hillman | ||
| General Carl Spaatz (Made by General Harry Vaughan) | ||
| The President will receive the Rt. Rev. Monsignor John O'Grady, Secretary, Natl. Conf. of Catholic Charities, and spokesman for thirty-three national organizations, urging support of the Wagner-Ellender-Taft General Housing Bill (S. 1592). Those who will come - Mr. Boris Shiskin, Sec. Housing Com. A.F. of L.; Rev. Beverley M. Boyd, Exec. Sec. Dept. of Christian Social Relations, Fed. Council of Churches of Christ; Dr. Caroline Ware, Member, Natl. Legislative Committee, American Assn. of University Women; Mr. William Nicholas, Dir. Housing Div., C.I.O.; Mr. Leslie S. Perry, Natl. Representative of Natl. Assn. for Advancement of Colored People; Lt. Comdr. Philip H. Hill, Legal Consultant on Housing Matters of Natl. Institute of Municipal Law Officers. | ||
| Hon. Dean Acheson, the Acting Secretary of State; The Secretary of the Treasury [Fred M. Vinson]. (Mr. Acheson phoned late yesterday to ask whether he still had his routine Thursday engagement with the President and when informed that he did have, stated he and Secretary Fred M. Vinson would take advantage of it to tell the President something they had in mind, and in this way avoid asking for an additional appointment) | ||
| (Lunch) | ||
| (Hon. Roger I. McDonough; James M. Douglas; Mr. Nathan Feinsinger) Steel Fact Finding Baord | ||
| (Mr. Philip Murray; Mr. Benjamin Fairless; The Secretary of Labor [Lewis B. Schwellenbach]; Hon. John Snyder; Hon. John Steelman) | ||
| Executive Orders: [9682 PROVIDING FOR THE FURNISHING OF INFORMATION AND ASSISTANCE TO THE JOINT ANGLO-AMERICAN COMMITTEE OF INQUIRY ON JEWISH PROBLEMS IN PALESTINE AND EUROPE] | ||
| [Public Papers: Statement by the President Following Rejection of His Compromise Offer by the U.S. Steel Corporation] | ||
| Cabinet Meeting (All present except State and War, and the Acting Secretaries will attend) | ||
| Hon. Ed Pauley | ||
| The President will receive the National Officers of the Future Farmers of America, as follows - Mr. J. Clyndon Stuff, President, Ill.; Mr. Sherman C. Beard, Jr., 1st Vice Pres. W. Va.; Mr. Eugene E. Starkey, 2nd Vice Pres. Calif.; Mr. Marion F. Baumgardner, 3rd Vice Pres., Texas; Mr. Joseph E. Espey, 4th Vice Pres. Maryville, Mo.; Mr. Virgil Getto, Student Secy., Nevada; Captain Watson Miller, Administrator, Fed. Security Agency; Dr. John W. Studebaker, Commnr. U.S. Office Education; Dr. J.C. Wright, Asst. U.S. Commnr. for Vocational Educa.; Dr. W. T. Spanton, Chief Agricutural Educa. Service; Mr. A.W. Tenney, Natl. Exec. Secy. Future Farmers of America. (Dr. Studebaker asked for this - and stated the Pres. one year ago, at luncheon given National Officers of F.F.A. by Sen. Thomas of Okla., indicated to these boys a desire to attend one of their National Conventions) | ||
| (Sam Husbands) | ||
| Hon. Aladar Szegedy-Maszak, the Minister of Hungary (To present credentials) | ||
| Hon. Kenneth C. Royall, the Acting Secretary of War | ||
| (Tommy Thompson) | ||
| (Lunch) | ||
| Director Smith, Bureau of Budget; Paul Appleby, Bureau Budget; Judge Rosenman | ||
| Mr. Henry Kaiser; Mr. Philip Murray (To tell the President that Mr. Kaiser's company will abide by his compromise) | ||
| Budget Seminar (In Movie room in White House) [Public Papers: The President's News Conference on the Budget] | ||
| (Lunch) | ||
| (Called on George Allen at Wardman Park Hotel) | ||
| [Public Papers: Message to the Congress on the State of the Union and on the Budget for 1947] | ||
| Honorable Kenneth McKellar, Tenn.; Sen. Lister Hill; Congressman John McCormack, Mass; Hon. Alben Barkley, Ky. | ||
| Major General Philip B. Fleming (He asked for a half hour) | ||
| Honorable Robert H. Hinckley, Director of Contracts Settlement, Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion | ||
| Mr. Nathan Feinsinger; Mr. James M. Douglas; Mr. Roger I. McDonough. | ||
| Honorable Dean Acheson, Acting Secretary of State | ||
| (Lunch) | ||
| The President awarded Selective Service Medal authorized by Congress to representative of each State, Dist. of Columbia, Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Hawaii and Alaska - ceremonies held in East Room of White House. Delegates as follows: Matthew M. Marshall; John P. Van Denburgh; M.S. Smith; Charles H. Brous; C.H. Randall; William J. Dodd; William F. Longendyke; Woodruff Youngs; Harry Wilderman; Walter E. Whitehead; William L. Teel; George Funk; Michael A. Zahoran; Geo. C. Whitmer; H.P. Bader; William Marcum, Sr.; Noel Herbert; Ralph H. Trecartin; Anthony V. Rettaliata; George G. Graham; Charles W. Hayner; Sigurd J. Rice; W.A. Lambert; A.R. McKee; Herbert W. Conrad; Hiyo Aden; Richard J. Elmore; Robert Rich; John H. Hoagland; Horace Moses; Robert M. Colt; Fred E. Johnson; Paul W. English; Alfred Thorson; James R. Favret; J.R. Couch; O.C. Gibbs; John Reynolds; Marcus Sutcliffe; Ben C. Hough; Arnold Schreiber; L.H. McDill; T.W. Borders; William Rees; George N. Harman; Thomas Coates; Ray Johnson; John A.B. Holt; Edward J. Wozniak; Henry J. Bolln; Leon Urbach; Henry K. Kellner; Francisco Fernandez Colon; J. Antonio Jarvis. | ||
| Mr. Samuel W. Fordyce; (Hon. John Snyder); (Hon. Harold D. Smith) | ||
| [Public Papers: Directive on Coordination of Foreign Intelligence Activities] | ||
| [Public Papers: Letter to the Chairman and Members of the President's Steel Fact-Finding Board] | ||
| Senator Wallace H. White, Jr., of Maine. | ||
| Honorable William H. Hastie, newly appointed Governor of the Virgin Islands. (Wishes to express appreciation for his appointment) | ||
| Honorable Herschall Johnson, U.S. Ambassador to Sweden. (Ambassador Johnson saw the President several weeks ago at which time the President stated he would like to see him before he left for his post.) | ||
| (Lunch) | ||
| Mr. Gordon B. Rossback (Saw Mrs. Truman last week, and asked for five minutes to pay his respects to the President - arranged through Miss Odum) | ||
| The Secretary of the Treasury [Fred M. Vinson]; The Attorney General [Tom C. Clark]. | ||
| Executive Orders: [9684 CREATING AN EMERGENCY BOARD TO INVESTIGATE DISPUTES BETWEEN THE INDIANA HARBOR BELT RAILROAD, CHICAGO JUNCTION RAILWAY (THE C. R. & I. R. R. Co., LESSEE) AND CHICAGO RIVER AND INDIANA RAILROAD COMPANY, CARRIERS, AND CERTAIN OF THEIR EMPLOYEES] | ||
| The British Ambassador | ||
| Congressman Daniel Flood, Pa; Master Robert Todd; Major Eugene D. Hegarty, USMC; Commander George P. Richards, USNR: Mr. Joseph P. Gillespie, Secretary to Congressman Flood. (The Congressman asked to bring in Robert Todd of Plymouth, Pa., a nine-year old boy who won a bond selling contest in Plymouth. He sold $9,875 of Serie E bonds, and was given a trip to Washington by the Congressman in recognition of his ability. They want pictures) | ||
| Hon. Herbert H. Lehman | ||
| Dr. Walter Pope Binns, President, William Jewell College; Honorable Clarence Cannon, Missouri; Mr. Vernon Moore, Secretary to Congressman Bell; Mr. Kemper Carter. (Wish to talk re the degree which the President has promised to accept from William Jewell College) | ||
| Senator Guy Gordon, Oregon; Senator Wayne Morse, Oregon | ||
| Honorable Chester Bowles; Hon. John Snyder | ||
| The President will present the Congressional Medal of Honor to Commander Joseph T. O'Callahan, Chaplain Corps, USNR; Lt. Donald A Gary, USN; First Lt. Daniel W. Lee, USA: Sergeant John R. McKinney, USA. Those invited: Mrs. Daniel W. Lee, wife of Lt. Lee; Mr. and Mrs. Daniel W. Lee, parents of Lt. Lee; Mr. and Mrs. Dewey H. McKinney; Mr. Dewey H. McKinney; Miss Betty McKinney; Mrs. Claude Nobley, Jr.; Kenneth C. Royall, Under Secretary of War; General of the Army, Dwight D. Eisenhower; General J.L. Devers; Captain John E. Glancy; Lt. J.E. Wingard; Senator Walter F. George; Senator Richard B. Russell; Congressman John S. Gibson; Congressman Hugh Peterson; Mr. and Mrs. Edward Lee; Mr. and Mrs. Miles S. Lee; Mr. and Mrs. A.L. Lee; Mr. Ray Lee; Mr. Romie Lee; Mrs. Bonnie T. Baker; Mrs. Helen T. Bishop; Most Reverend William Arnold, Assistant Military Ordinate; Miss A. Aurigemma; Lt. Comdr. Charles L. Beckstrom; Mr. and Mrs. Milo Boulton; Right Reverend John K. Cartright, D.D; Mr. James J. Casey; Mr. John T. Casey; Mis Mary Casey; Vice Admiral Louis E. Denfeld; Commander E.B. Fluckey; Rev. Charles J. Foley, S.J; Hon. James V. Forrestal; Mrs. Donald A. Gary; Master Kenneth E. Gary; Commander H.H. Hale; Hon. James W. Huffman, Senator from Ohio; Congressman John McCormack: Reverend John J. McEleney, S.J.; Justice Matthew F. McGuire; Reverend Paul A. McNally, S.J.; Most Reverend John W. McNamara; Fleet Admiral C.W. Nimitz, USN; Mrs. P. Nunno; Mrs. Edward P. O'Brien; Mrs. Alice B. O'Callahan; Mr. and Mrs. Cornelious J. O'Callahan; Mr. and Mrs. Edward J. O'Callahan; Mr. and Mrs. John T. O'Callahan; Hon. Leverett Saltonstall; Captain and Mrs. W.V. Saunders; Reverend Maurice S. Sheehy; Hon. Frederick C. Smith, Cong- ressman from Ohio; Rear Admiral T.L. Sprague; Hon. John L. Sullivan, Asst. Sec Navy for Air; Senator Robert A. Taft, Ohio; Captain E.B. Taylor; Rear Admiral W.N. Thomas; Hon. David I. Walsh, Senator from Massachusetts. | ||
| (Lunch - Cabinet - at White House) | ||
| The Secretary of Labor [Lewis B. Schwellenbach]; (Hon. John Snyder; Hon. John Steelman) | ||
| Mr. George Hohman (Appointment arranged through General Harry Vaughan) | ||
| Executive Orders: [9685 AUTHORIZING THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE TO TAKE POSSESSION OF AND OPERATE CERTAIN PLANTS AND FACILITIES USED IN THE PRODUCTION, PROCESSING, TRANSPORTATION, SALE AND DISTRIBUTION OF LIVESTOCK, MEAT, MEAT PRODUCTS AND BY-PRODUCTS] | ||
| Press and Radio Conference [Public Papers] | ||
| After the Press Conference the President shook hands with Mr. Theo. Quinn, Postmaster at St. Joe, Mo., Mr. R. Evans; Mr. Wiliam Collett. (At request of Sen. Briggs) | ||
| Hon. Wilson Wyatt (Said he had urgent matter to discuss) | ||
| [Public Papers: Citation Accompanying Medal for Merit Presented to Samuel I. Rosenman] | ||
| Hon. Fiorello H. LaGuardia |