Daily Appointments of Harry S. Truman

February 15, 1946

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11:45 am	February 15, 1946	Colonel A.P. Fonda (Wrote his father was an old and good friend of the President's, in Independence, politically and otherwise. Col. Fonda states he has been in Army Air Forces for last four and half years. Came here to receive Award of the Order of the British Empire from Lord Halifax, on February 12th)
12:00 pm	February 15, 1946	H.E. Dr. Wei Tao-ming, the Chinese Ambassador (Has just returned from China and has requested an appointment with the President)
12:15 pm	February 15, 1946	Senator Hugh B. Mitchell, Wash.; Sen. Glen H. Taylor, Idaho; Sen. James E. Murray, Mont.; Cong. Wright Patman, Tex.
12:30 pm	February 15, 1946	Senator Harley M. Kilgore, W. Va.
1:00 pm	February 15, 1946	(Lunch)
4:00 pm	February 15, 1946	Press and Radio Conference [Public Papers]
8:00 am	February 16, 1946	(The President aboard USS WILLIAMSBURG)
8:00 am	February 17, 1946	(The President aboard USS WILLIAMSBURG)
10:00 am	February 18, 1946	Senator Kenneth McKellar, Tenn.; Speaker Sam Rayburn, Tex.; Senator Alben W. Barkley, Ky.; Cong. John W. McCormack, Mass.
11:30 am	February 18, 1946	The Secretary of the Navy [James Forrestal]; Vice Admiral Louis E. Denfeld; Rear Admiral Sidney Souers. (Arranged through Commodore Vardaman)
11:45 am	February 18, 1946	Sen. Homer Capehart, Ind.; Lt. Col. Engene Graebner, Chaplain; Dr. William F. Bruening, Pastor of Christ Lutheran Church, Wash., D.C., and Vice Pres. of the American Lutheran Publicity Bureau; Mr. Earl Capehart. (On this date, Feb. 18th, Lutherans throughout world will commemorate 400th anniversary of the death of Martin Luther, and their Publicity Bureau, a national organization serving all Synods of the Lutheran Church, has prepared a special anniversary poster stamp, first issue of which they wish to present to the President. A few years ago they celebrated birth of Martin Luther and presented a first issue poster stamp commemorating his birth, to President Roosevelt. Senator Johnson made the request.)
12:00 pm	February 18, 1946	The Secretary of the Treasury [Fred M. Vinson]
12:15 pm	February 18, 1946	Hon. Fiorello LaGuardia (With reference his trip to Brazil - Mr. Charles Ross arranged this appointment.)
12:30 pm	February 18, 1946	The Secretary of State [James F. Byrnes] (Usual routine Monday appointment)
1:00 pm	February 18, 1946	(Lunch)
3:15 pm	February 18, 1946	Hon. Chester Bowles
3:30 pm	February 18, 1946	Hon. Harold D. Smith, Dir. Bureau of the Budget (To discuss Navy Budget)
4:00 pm	February 18, 1946	(Hon. Caskie Collett)
12:00 am	February 19, 1946	Executive Orders: [9698 DESIGNATING PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS ENTITLED TO ENJOY CERTAIN PRIVILEGES, EXEMPTIONS, AND IMMUNITIES]
10:00 am	February 19, 1946	Senator John H. Bankhead, Ala.; Senator Olin D. Johnson, S.C.; Senator Theodore G. Bilbo, Miss.; Senator Lister Hill, Ala.; Sen. Burnet R. Maybank, S.C.; Senator Tom Stewart, Tenn.; Senator John McClellan, Ark.; Senator John H. Overton, La. (To endorse Congressman Boykin for appointment as Secretary of the Interior - Senator Bankhead initiated the request)
10:15 am	February 19, 1946	Cong. Alfred J. Elliott, Calif.; Cong. Clarence F. Lea, Cal.; Cong. Clair Engle, Calif.; Cong. Cecil R. King, Calif. (To endorse Congressman Harry R. Sheppard, California, for appointment as Secretary of the Interior - Cong. Elliott asked for appointment)
10:45 am	February 19, 1946	Senator Dennis Chavez, N. Mex.; Maj. Gen. Pedro A. del Valle, USMC (Senator Chavez interested in having Gen. del Valle con- sidered for Governorship of Puerto Rico - See file attached with biography of del Valle)
11:15 am	February 19, 1946	Hon. O. Max Gardner (At suggestion of Secretary Fred M. Vinson, who was anxious to have the President talk to him)
11:30 am	February 19, 1946	(Mr. Edwin Locke)
12:00 pm	February 19, 1946	Hon. W. Averell Harriman, former Ambassador to U.S.S.R.
12:30 pm	February 19, 1946	Congressman Jed Johnson, Okla. (Asked to see the President as soon as possible)
1:00 pm	February 19, 1946	(Lunch)
9:00 am	February 20, 1946	[Public Papers: Statement by the President Concerning Provisions in Bill Affecting Philippine Army Veterans]
9:05 am	February 20, 1946	[Public Papers: Statement by the President Upon Signing the Employment Act]
10:00 am	February 20, 1946	Sen. George L. Radcliffe, Md.; Sen. Abe Murdock, Utah; Sen. Joseph C. O'Mahoney, Wyo.; Sen. Elbert D. Thomas, Utah; Sen. Wm. Langer, N.D.; Sen. George D. Aiken, Vt.; Cong. Wright Patman, Tex.; Cong. Geo. E. Outland, California; Cong. Geo. H. Bender, Ohio; Cong. Wm. H. Whittington, Miss.; Cong. Carter Manasco, Ala. (The President will sign the FULL EMPLOYMENT BILL - S 380)
10:30 am	February 20, 1946	The Secretary of State [James F. Byrnes]; The Secretary of War [Robert P. Patterson]; The Secretary of the Navy [James Forrestal]; Gen. Thomas T. Handy; Admiral Louis E. Denfeld; Gen. Carl Spaatz. (Appointment arranged through Secretary of War - to discuss Army and Navy pay)
11:00 am	February 20, 1946	Dr. Norman V. Peale, Collegiate Marble Church, New York; Rabbi Gustave Falk, New York Federation of Reform Synagogues; Mr. Gordon Chamberlain, representing Dr. Roswell Barnes of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America; Rabbi Herbert Goldstein, President of the Synagogue Council of America; Most Rev. William R. Arnold, Military Ordinariate, New York; Dr. Robert W. Searle, Director, Greater New York Federation of Churches; Dr. Earl Adams, Exec. Sec., Protestant Council, New York; Rev. Paul T. Tanner, Asst. Gen. Sec., National Catholic Welfare Conference, Washington, D.C.; Rev. Frederick B. Harris, Chaplain of the Senate. (To discuss the returning veteran's problems and how the church can be of assistance in housing, etc.)
11:30 am	February 20, 1946	(Col. August A. Busch, Jr.; Mr. Anthony A. Buford) OFF RECORD
12:00 pm	February 20, 1946	Honorable James McGranery (Requested appointment)
12:15 pm	February 20, 1946	Governor Herbert H. Lehman
12:30 pm	February 20, 1946	Cong. John J. Sparkman, Ala.; Cong. Leonard Allen, La.; Cong.George Andrews, Ala.; Cong. Jos. Bryson, S.C.;Cong. Eugene Cox, Ga.;Cong. Robert Doughton, N.C.;Cong. Harold Earthman, Tenn.; Cong. John Gibson, Ga.;Cong. George Grant, Ala.; Cong. Sam Hobbs, Ala.; Cong. Henry Larcade, La.; Cong. Chas. McKenzie, La.; Cong. John McMillan, S.C.; Cong. James Morrison, La.;Cong.Tom Murray, Tenn.; Cong. John Rankin, Miss.;Cong. John Riley,S.C.; Cong. Mendall Rivers, S.C.;Cong. Bob Sikes, Fla.; Cong. Robert Slaughter, Mo.; Cong. Zebulon Weaver, N.C.; Cong. Compton White, Idaho; Cong. John Wood, Ga.; Cong. Orville Zimmerman, Mo.; Cong. John E. Fogarty, R.I.; Cong. J. Vaughan Gary, Va. (Came in in the interest of Congressman Frank Boykin for appointment as Secretary of the Interior)
1:00 pm	February 20, 1946	(Lunch)
3:30 pm	February 20, 1946	The Secretary of Agriculture [Clinton P. Anderson]
5:00 pm	February 20, 1946	The Postmaster General [Robert E. Hannegan]
12:00 am	February 21, 1946	Executive Orders: [9699 RE-ESTABLISHING THE OFFICE OF ECONOMIC STABILIZATION(1)]
9:00 am	February 21, 1946	[Public Papers: Statement by the President Urging Continuation of the Victory Garden Program]
10:30 am	February 21, 1946	Press and Radio Conference [Public Papers]
11:00 am	February 21, 1946	Mr. Melvin M. Johnson, Sovereign Grand Commander, Supreme Council, Scottish Rite (Appointment arranged through Mr. Frank Land)
11:15 am	February 21, 1946	Honorable Oscar Chapman, Acting Secretary of Interior
11:45 am	February 21, 1946	(Mr. Leon A. Perskie) (Has now completed etchings of the President, Mrs. Truman and Miss Truman. Asked for the appointment to make personal presentation.)
12:00 pm	February 21, 1946	Mr. A.F. Whitney, President of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen; Mr. Alvanley Johnson, Grand Chief Engineer, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. (Appointment arranged through Dr. John R. Steelman)
12:30 pm	February 21, 1946	Honorable James F. Byrnes, Secretary of State
1:00 pm	February 21, 1946	(Lunch)
2:30 pm	February 21, 1946	The Secretary of Agriculture [Clinton P. Anderson]; The Secretary of Commerce [Henry A. Wallace]; Hon. William L. Clayton; Dr. D.A. Fitzberald; Mr. James Stillwell.
3:15 pm	February 21, 1946	(Mr. Ted Marks)
3:30 pm	February 21, 1946	Hon. Bennett Champ Clark, Assoc. Justice, Court Appeals (Requested the appointment)
4:00 pm	February 21, 1946	The President held reception at White House for the Grand Masters of the Masonic Order.
8:00 am	February 22, 1946	George Washington's Birthday
8:30 am	February 22, 1946	The President aboard the USS WILLIAMSBURG
8:00 am	February 23, 1946	The President aboard the USS WILLIAMSBURG
8:00 am	February 24, 1946	The President aboard the USS WILLIAMSBURG
10:00 am	February 25, 1946	Senator Kenneth McKellar, Tenn.; Speaker Sam Rayburn, Tex.; Sen. Alben W. Barkley, Ky.; Cong. John W. McCormack, Mass.
11:00 am	February 25, 1946	Lt. Gen. Francisco L. Urquizo, Mexican Minister of National Defense; Gen. Guzman Gardenas, Mexican Military Attache; Lt. Col. Ruben Perez, G-2, Mexican Army; Major Basilio Santos, Aide to General Urquizo; Maj. Gen. Guy V. Henry, Senior Delegate to the Joint-Mexican-United States Defense Commission; Brig. Gen. Urban Niblo, Chief United States Aide to Gen. Urquizo; Lt. Col. Rafael Miranda, Aide and Interpreter. (General Urquizo states that he has a personal message from the President of Mexico which he wishes to deliver personally to the President) (Appointment arranged through the War Department)
11:15 am	February 25, 1946	Hon. Ernest H. Gruening, Governor of Alaska (Wishes to see the President before returing to Alaska re certain developments in Alaska)
11:30 am	February 25, 1946	General Omar Bradley
12:00 pm	February 25, 1946	The President will receive delegation from United Jewish Relief as follows: Sylvan Gotshal; Edward M. Warburg; Paul Baerwald; Edwin Rosenberg; William Rosenwald; Charles J. Rosenbloom; Rabbi Jonah B. Wise; S. Ralph Lazrus; Mrs. David Levy; Rudolf G. Sonneborn; Hon. Henry Morgenthau; Herbert Bayard Swope; Hon. Bernard Baruch; Abraham L. Liebovitz; Attorney General Nathaniel Goldstein; Irving Geist; Abe Feinberg; Winthrop Aldrich; John D. Rockefeller, Jr.; Edmund O. Kaufman; Herbert Lehman; Max Firestein; Mrs. Helen Gahagan Douglas; Major Einstein; Major Fleischman; J.G. Heller; Fred Lazarus; Major Maxwell Cohen; Harris Perlstein; Colonel Jack Arvey; Marshall Field; Oliver Kaufman; Senator Alben Barkley; Philip Lown; Lesley Jacobs; Leon Sunstein; Harold J. Goldenberg; Edgar Stern; N.J. Weinstein; Colonel William Schweitzer; Jerome Kohn; George Farber; David Dubinskey; Jacob Potofsky; Samuel Alperts; Meyer Steinglass; Henry Monter; I. Coons. (Arranged through the Postmaster General [Robert E. Hannegan]).
12:05 pm	February 25, 1946	[Public Papers: Remarks to a Delegation from the United Jewish Appeal]
1:00 pm	February 25, 1946	(Lunch) (The President will go to the office of the Postmaster General [Robert E. Hannegan] for luncheon)
3:30 pm	February 25, 1946	The Secretary of the Treasury [Fred M. Vinson]
4:00 pm	February 25, 1946	(Hon. Julius A. Krug)
4:30 pm	February 25, 1946	(Mr. Martin Coffey)
9:00 am	February 26, 1946	[Public Papers: Statement by the President on the Agreement Reached at the Civil Aviation Conference in Bermuda]
10:00 am	February 26, 1946	(Mr. George Kargere) (To take some pictures for article which Collier's is publishing on the President)
10:15 am	February 26, 1946	Hon. W. Stuart Symington
10:30 am	February 26, 1946	Hon. John Townsend (Former Senator from Delaware, asked for the appointment)
10:45 am	February 26, 1946	Major Clark Howell (George Killion asked the President to see. Howell is publisher of Atlanta Constitution)
11:00 am	February 26, 1946	Mr. de Lesseps S. Morrison (Mayor-elect of New Orleans - Paul Wooton, Washington correspondent of Times-Picayune requested the appoint- ment. Wooton says this paper feels it had quite a hand in election of Morrison, and Wooton further stated he felt Morrison was man "who is certain to play an important part in public affairs in Louisiana)
11:15 am	February 26, 1946	Mr. Albert S. Goss, Master, National Grange (Mr. Goss's original wire to the President and the Presi- dent's reply, saying he would talk to him, attached, as well as later wire from Goss on appointment of a Secretary of Interior)
11:30 am	February 26, 1946	Hon. R. G. Casey (Retiring Governor of Bengal - the Australian Minister requested this appointment as Casey to be in Washington Feb. 22nd to 27th) Casey first Australian Minister to the U.S., and since has been Minister of State in Middle East and a member of British War Cabinet)
12:00 pm	February 26, 1946	Mr. Earl Russell (Cong. Cole of Missouri asked the President see Russell, saying Russell served in the National Guard with the President and is now here in Treasury Dept)
12:30 pm	February 26, 1946	(Mr. Walter Reuther - off record) (Arranged by Captain Clark Clifford and Mr. Matthew Connelly)
1:00 pm	February 26, 1946	(Lunch at Capitol in Leslie Biffle's office)
3:30 pm	February 26, 1946	The Secretary of State [James F. Byrnes]; The Attorney General [Tom C. Clark]; The Secretary of the Treasury [Fred M. Vinson]. (The President asked for this appointment to be made, after talking to Secretary of the Treasury yesterday)
4:00 pm	February 26, 1946	Press and Radio Conference [Public Papers]
4:30 pm	February 26, 1946	(The Postmaster General [Robert E. Hannegan]; Mr. George Killion; Mr. Sam O'Neal)
9:00 am	February 27, 1946	[Public Papers: Telegram to Leading Citizens Concerning the Need for a Voluntary Food Conservation Program]
10:15 am	February 27, 1946	Cong. Tom Pickett, Texas; Cong. Paul J. Kilday, Texas; Cong. Milton H. West, Texas; Cong. R. Ewing Thomason, Texas; Cong. John E. Lyle, Texas; Cong. Luther A. Johnson, Texas; Dr. Harmon Lowman, Pres. Texas State Teachers College, Huntsville, Texas. (To extend invitation to the President to receive Degree of Doctor of Laws from this College on May 5th, at which time President Camacho of Mexico will receive same degree)
10:30 am	February 27, 1946	Hon. Owen J. Roberts (Wrote the President there is matter he deems of vital importance to the country about which he would like to talk to the President for few minutes Feb. 27th.)
11:00 am	February 27, 1946	Hon. W. John Kenney, Asst. Secretary of the Navy (Secretary James Forrestal asked that the President see)
11:45 am	February 27, 1946	Mr. James Shepley (At request of General George Marshall -- see General's Secret Memo. Attached)
12:00 pm	February 27, 1946	Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt
12:15 pm	February 27, 1946	Sen. Chapman Revercomb, West Virginia; Mr. Wade H. Kepner; Mr. Roy Heinlen.
12:30 pm	February 27, 1946	Mr. N. T. Veatch (Wrote he would be in Washington several days and had matter he wanted very much to discuss with the President)
1:00 pm	February 27, 1946	(Lunch - Cabinet - ten present)
3:30 pm	February 27, 1946	The Secretary of State [James F. Byrnes]; The Secretary of the Navy [James Forrestal]; Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz.
9:00 am	February 28, 1946	[Public Papers: Statement by the President Recommending a Nationwide Voluntary "Share-the-Housing" Program]
10:15 am	February 28, 1946	The Secretary of War [Robert P. Patterson]; The Under Secretary of War; Mr. Thomas McCabe.
11:00 am	February 28, 1946	The President received representatives of Phoenix Don's Club: Sen. Carl Hayden, Ariz.; Sen. Ernest W. McFarland, Ariz.; Cong. John R. Murdock, Ariz.; Cong.Richard F. Harless, Ariz; Mr. and Mrs. Fred Guirey; Mr. and Mrs. E.O. Foster; Lt. and Mrs. Fred Bolen. (Arizona Delegation requested this appointment for representa- tives of Phoenix Don's Club, group of young businessmen of that City. This organization has for its purpose perpetuation of history and lore of Southwest. Are making this trip East to check Congressional Library files for trace of early Spanish map which may give approximate location of Lost Dutchman Gold Mine, orginially owned by Spanish family named "Peralta". The Dons Club each year conducts a trek to wilds of old Superstition Mountain near Phoenix, which has attracted international attention and has been chosen by winter visitors as number one event in Phoenix. They left Phoenix, the Dons and their Donas, attired in colorful Spanish Costumes on Feb. 25th)
11:30 am	February 28, 1946	Cong. Jed Johnson and Mrs. Johnson and 2 daughters and 1 son; Captain Fred Ladoon, Vice Commander, Amer. Legion, from Chicasaw, Oklahoma. (Cong. Johnson asked to bring this "Oklahoma Hero" in to meet the President, and said he was going to also bring along members of his (The Congressman's) family, but would not say just how many - wants pictures)
12:15 pm	February 28, 1946	Mrs. Eugene Meyer (Re plans for National Council for Veterans and Workers, which plans have been drawn up by Basil O'Connor. Attached for the President's information. Geo. Allen looked at file and recommended that the President see Mrs. Meyer)
12:30 pm	February 28, 1946	The Secretary of Commerce [Henry A. Wallace]; Dir. Condon, Bur. of Standards; Mr. James Newman.
12:45 pm	February 28, 1946	Senator David I. Walsh; Sen. Leverett Saltonstall; Sen. Peter Gerry.
1:00 pm	February 28, 1946	(Lunch)
3:30 pm	February 28, 1946	Hon. Edward R. Stettinius, Jr. (Is seeing the Secretary of State at 2.30 and hoped the President would let him come over after that)
4:00 pm	February 28, 1946	Hon. Harold D. Smith