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Daily Appointments of Harry S. Truman

April 18, 1946

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The Secretary of State [James F. Byrnes] (Usual Thursday appointment)
(Lunch)
(Honorable George Allen)
The Secretary of the Treasury [Fred M. Vinson]
The President received members of the American Society of Newspaper Editors in an off the record press conference in the East Room of the White House. [Public Papers]
Cabinet Meeting (Agenda attached - General Fleming and Secretary Wallace absent, Postmaster General doubtful)
Hon. Josephus Daniels
The President will sign H.R. 5644, Armed Services Absentee Voting Bill, following guests: Senator Theodore F. Green, R.I.; Senator Scott W. Lucas, Ill.; Congressman Herbert C. Bonner, N.C.
(Hon. Myron Taylor) (Asked to come in off the record)
Hon. Sidney Hillman (Asked for the appointment)
(Mr. and Mrs. Chas. L. (Farmer) Brown; daughter, Mrs. Anna Jewell Davis) (Old friends, to shake hands)
Mr. Robert A. Willis, President, K.C. Live Stock Excg. (Wrote the President he would be here on business, and could he see the President)
Mr. Edmund Reek; Mr. Anthony Muto; Mr. M.D. Clofine; Mr. J.C. Brown; Ted Genock; Robert H. Denton; Walton Ament; George Dorsey; Thomas Mead; James Lyons. (Editors of the Five Newsreels Companies) NEWSREEL EDITORS
(Mr. Walter Hemeyer; Mr. Frank McNaughton) (Asked for brief chat so as to stay in closer touch and help in keeping their journal up to date. They hope to use this journal in bringing their book THIS MAN TRUMAN up to date)
The President received representatives of National Press Photographers Association: Joseph Costa, N.Y.,President; Mr. Bert Williams, Pittsburgh, Secretary; Mr. Charles Mack, Washington, Treasurer.
(lunch)
The Secretary of Labor [Lewis B. Schwellenbach]
[Public Papers: Radio Appeal to the Nation for Food Conservation to Relieve Hunger Abroad] [ Audio excerpts: MP3]
Executive Orders:  [9714 AMENDING EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 9492, AS AMENDED, PRESCRIBING REGULATIONS GOVERNING NON-MILITARY AND NON-NAVAL TRANSPORTATION ON ARMY AND NAVY AIR TRANSPORTS]
(Signal Corps will take pictures, to try get good profile study to be used in making engraving)
The Attorney General [Tom C. Clark]
General Alexander Vandegrift
The Secretary of the Treasury [Fred M. Vinson]; Hon. Lewis Douglas. (At suggestion of Judge Fred M. Vinson)
The Secretary of State [James F. Byrnes]; Hon Francisco Castillo Najera, Foreign Minister of Mexico. (At request of Mr. James F. Byrnes, as the Foreign Minister is leaving Washington tomorrow for Mexico)
(Mr. and Mrs. Pierre Cartier)
The Secretary of Labor [Lewis B. Schwellenbach]; Hon. John L. Lewis; (Hon John Snyder). (This was tentative last night, but Mr. John Snyder thought likely they would have to see the President)
(Lunch)
The President left the White House 3:35 p.m. for weeks cruise aboard USS WILLIAMSBURG, with members of White House staff.
(Aboard USS WILLIAMSBURG)
Executive Orders:  [9715 ON THE DEATH OF HARLAN FISKE STONE]
(Aboard USS WILLIAMSBURG)
Executive Orders:  [9716 CREATING AN EMERGENCY BOARD TO INVESTIGATE A DISPUTE BETWEEN THE RAILWAY EXPRESS AGENCY, INC., AND CERTAIN OF ITS EMPLOYEES]
[Public Papers: Proclamation 2688: Death of Harlan Fiske Stone]
(Aboard USS WILLIAMSBURG)
Executive Orders:  [9717 DIRECTING THE EMERGENCY BOARD CREATED BY EXECUTIVE ORDER 9716 OF APRIL 24, 1946 TO INVESTIGATE A DISPUTE BETWEEN THE RAILWAY EXRESS AGENCY, INC., AND CERTAIN OF ITS EMPLOYEES, ALSO TO INVESTIGATE DISPUTES BETWEEN THE AGENCY AND CERTAIN OTHER OF ITS EMPLOY]
[Public Papers: Letter to the U.S. Chairman, Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry on Palestine]
(Aboard USS WILLIAMSBURG)
The President came ashore at Quantico, Va., and motored to Washington, D. C., where he attended funeral at Washington Cathedral of Chief Justice Harlan Stone.
Motored back to Quantico and resumed cruise aboard USS WILLIAMSBURG.
(Aboard USS WILLIAMSBURG)
(Aboard USS WILLIAMSBURG)
The President returned to White House from cruise.
(Secretary of the Treasury [Fred M. Vinson])
The President received the members of the Advisory Board of the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion -- Hon. John Snyder, Hon. O. Max Gardner (Chairman), Hon. Albert F. Goss, Hon. Edward A. O'Neal, Hon.James G. Patton, Hon. Nathaniel Dyke, Jr., Hon. Eric A. Johnston, Hon. George H. Mead, Hon. T. C. Cashen, Hon.Wm. L. Green, Hon. Philip Murray, Hon. Chester C. Davis, Mrs. Anna M. Rosenberg, Mr. Edward P. Felker. (Appointment arranged by Mr. Snyder)
Hon. Paul Porter (requested this appointment)
Mrs. Walter G. Craven, National President of AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY presented the President with Memorial Poppy.
(Mr. Clark MacKenzie)
The President received members of the MINISTERIAL UNION -- Rev. Geo. E. Hughes, Rev. Len E. Weston, Cecil H. Franks, Rev. James S. Albertson, Rev. Alton B. Altfather, Rev. George M. Anderson, Rev. Howard Stone Anderson, Rev. Charles B.Austin, Rev. Oscar T. Backlund, Rev. Clarkson R. Banes, Rev. Alfred E. Barrows, Rev. William E. Basom, Rev. Herbert W. Baucom, Jr., Rev. Hubert S. Beckwith, Rev. Harry L. Bell, Rev. Lloyd W. Bell, Rev. George H. Bennett, Rev. Thos. G. Betschler, Rev. Oscar F. Balckwelder, Rev.Edward R. Bley, Rev. A. Karl Boemke, Rev. F. J. Bohanan, Rev. Warren D. Bowman, Rev. Tillman R. Braddy, Rev. Bernard Braskamp, Rev. William F. Bruening, Rev. John E. Briggs, Rev.Robert W. Brooks, Major Ray D. Brown, Rev. C. A. Brubaker, Rev. James Bryden, Rev. Kenneth C. Buker, Rev. George O. Bullock, Rev. George W. Burroughs, Jr., Rev., Glendale Burton, Rev. H. W. Burgan, Rev. Frank B. Burress, Rev. Ernest F. Campbell, Major John Campbell, Rev. A. J. Caricofe, Rev. J. H. Carter, Rev. Robert L. Chamberlain, Rev. H. F. Chandler, Rev. David F. Chastain, Jr., Rev. Edward O. Clark, Rev. Lucius C. Clark, Rev. H. P. Clarke, Rev. Selwyn K. Cockrell, Rev. Glenn R. Cole, Rev. Glenn J. Cooper, Rev. L. W. Conway, Capt. Newton Gordon Cosby, Rev. Virgil M. Cosby, Rev. C. J. Craig, Rev. Milton B. Crist, Rev. Horace E. Cromer, Rev. G. Custer Cromwell, Rev. Dale Crowley, Rev. W. Keith Custis, Rev. William L. Darby, Rev. A. Powell Davies, Rev. S. L. Daw, Rev. Arthur C. Day, Rev. Chauncey C. Day, Rev. Ryland T. Dodge, Rev. Frank Dorey, Rev. C. M. Drury, Rev. J. A. Dudley, Rt. Rev. Angus Dun, Rev. Herbert Eberhardt, Rev. C. Joseph Edwards, Rev. Philip C. Edwards, Rev. Thomas B. Ehlers, Rev. H. G. Elsam, Rev. Charles Enders, Rev. William H. Erskine, Rev. Ira Sankey Ernst, Dr. Page McK. Etchison, Rev. D. Hobart Evans, Rev. G. B. Faucett, Rev. James Curtis Fahl, Rev. C. R. Ferguson, Rev. William E. Firth, Rev. C. H. Frick, Rev. H. T. Gaskins, Rev. Stuart F. Gast, Rev. Franklin B. Gillespie, Rev. C. Leslie Glenn, Rev. Harvey W. Goddard, Rev. Philip Goertz, Rev. O. S. Good, Rev. Don E. Griffin, Rev. Ernest E. Grosse, Rev. A. E. Gyson, Rev. William A. Haggerty, Mr. John Halko, Rev. J. Herrick Hall, Major Clarence Hammer, Rev. Benton Roy Hanan, Rev. Reno S. Harp, Jr., Rev. F. Paul Harris, Rev. J. Warren Hastings, Rev. F. W. Haverkamp, Rev. Howard Haworth, Rev. J. Edgar Hiatt, Rev. W. L. Hildebrandt, Rev. Virgil M. Hobbs, Rev. H. R. Hodgson, Rev. Irvan E. Hodgson, Rev. Fred A. Holden, Rev. Wilson Holder, Rev. J. L. S. Holloman, Dr. Clinton N. Howard, Rev. L. T. Hughes, Rev. C. C. Hung, Rev. P. R. Hunter, Rev. Alfred W. Hurst, Rev. Samuel W. Irwin, Rev. Frank Y. Jaggers, Rev. Bartlett B. James, Rev. Ralph C. John, Rev. Ben S. Johnson, Rev. Waldrep Johnson, Rev. Joseph S. Johnston, Rev. Berwyn Jones, Rev. Daniel W. Justice, Rev. J. P. Kerr, Rev. Irbing W. Ketchum, Rev. J. Edward Kidder, Rev. U. S. Knox, Rev. Carl A. Koerber, Rev. O. B. Langrall, Rev. Harold R. Lanman, Rev. Edward G. Latch, Rev. Robert E. Lee, Rev. Russell G. Lengel, Rev. Gerhard E. Lenski, Rev. Donald L. Leonard, Rev. William Lewis, Rev. Robert W. Long, Rev. Francis Lukens, Rev. Horace C. Lukens, Rev. James F. Lundquist, Rev. A. G. Lynch, Rev. W. K. Lyons, Rev. M. W. Mann, Rev. William B. Marsh, Rev. William L. Mayo, Rev. F. L. Morrison, Rev. Ralph K. Merker, Rev. James M. McCauley, Rev. John F. McClelland, Rev. Hugo McCord, Rev. C. E. McGaughey, Rev. Gaye L. McGlothlen, Rev. David McKeith, Rev. Francis, W. McPeek, Rev. B. P. Moore, Capt. John Warner Moore, Rev. J. Brooke Mosley, Rev. H. P. Myers, Capt. John D. Needham, Rev. J. Raymond Nelson, Rev. William W. Norris, Rev. Karl S. Oelschlager, Rev. Alfred C. Oliver, Jr., Capt. Alfred J. Osborne, Rev. Lee A. Peeler, Rev. J. H. Peters, Rev. J. A. Pfeiffer, Rev. H. Raymond Phelts, Rev. Charles F. Phillips, Rev. James H. Phillips, Rev. Harry Pickup, Rev. Harry Pickup, Jr., Rev. James A. Pike, Rev. James L. Pinn, Rev. Robert J. Plumb, Rev. Dan M. Potter, Rev. Edward H. Pruden, Rev. Richard B. Pursel, Rev. J. S. Ragan, Rev. Oscar L. Rand, Chaplain A. R. Ree, Rev. Elwood F. Reeves, Jr., Rev. Frederick E. Reissing, Rev. Millard Rewis, Rev. Royal A. Rice, Rev. Andy T. Tictchio, Jr., Rev. J. Callaway Robertson, Rev. Orris G. Robinson, Rev. C. Lewis Robson, Rev. James T. Rodgers, Rev. Freeley Rohrer, Rev. K. W. Roy, Rev. John. C. Runkle, Rev. Paul Schearrer, Rev. F. Nelson Schlegel, Rev. George E. Schnabel, Rev. Robert E. Sherrill, Rev. Robert E. Shields, Rev. G. Wilbur Shipley, Rev. W. Lloyd Shirer, Rev. Charles A. Shreve Rev. N. M. Simmonds, Rev. Carl R. Simon, Rev. E. C. Smith, Rev. Ralph D. Smith, Rev. Frank L. Snyder, Rev. E. C. Soper, Capt. William Southwood, Rev. Stephen Gill Spottswood, Rev. Laurence C. Staples, Rev. Thos. M. Steen, Rev. Roy H. Stetler, Jr., Rev. Len Stevens Rev. Bonds Stocks, Rev. Purcell Storey, Rev. Edmund P. Strait, Chaplain Donald C. Stuart, Rev. D. K. Strugis, Rev. Vernon Stutzman, Rev. John W. Suter, Rev. W. W. Sylvester, Rev. L. Ralphy Tabor, Rev. Dallas M. Tarkenton, Rev. Halley B. Taylor, Rev. W. W. Tink, Rev. Wendell S. Tredick, Jr., Lt. Col. W. O. Ulrey, Rev. James Valliant, Rev. Robert E. Van Deusen, Rev. Florian Vurpillot, Rev. Ford Wagner, Rev. Wm. H. Walker, Dr. Ernest A. Wall, Rev. Theodore O. Wedel, Rev. E. Sylvester Weidman, Rev. J. Frederic Wenchel, Rev. Gould Wickey, Rev. Robert T. Wilkerson, Rev. Herbert L. B. Wilkins, Rev. Robert M. Williams, Rev. Smallwood E. Williams, Rev. E. B. Willingham, Rev. A. L. Wills, Rev. C. H. Wingert, Rev. Clarence E. Wise, Rev. Allen J. White, Rev. K. Owen White, Rev. Robert L. Whittenburg, Rev. Walter F. Wolf, Rev. Henry B. Wooding, Rev. N. M Ylvisaker, Rev. Beo. Hileman Yount, Rev. H. S. Southgate, Rev. Harry M. Buck, Sr., Rev. Harry M. Buck, Jr., Rev. Fred Forkel, Rev. Carl E. Young, Rev. Harry A. Klingeman, Rev. Bruce Kniseley, Rev. Fred G. Fischer, Rev. J. H. Peter, Rev. George Speaks, Rev. Fillmore T. Kohler, Rev. Benjamin F. Blubough, Rev. Paul Rheinhardt, Rev. William C. Wachter, Rev. Franklin Galley, Rev. Leonard E. Mason, Rev. Kenneth E. Spilman. (Appointment arranged by Rev. Schnabel, Pres. of Washington Ministerial Union and Rev. Frederick E. Reissig, Executive Secretary of Ministerial Union. Representative of Union to extend personal greeting to the President.)
Hon. Dean Acheson, Acting Secretary of State.
(Geo. V. Allen, Ambassador to Iran)
(Lunch)
Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, Retired.
Hon. Harold D. Smith, Dir. of Budget (Requested apt.)
The Secretary of War [Robert P. Patterson], The Actg. Secretary of State, Dean Acheson, Hon. John L. Sullivan, The Secretary of Agriculture [Clinton P. Anderson], Hon. Howard C. Petersen, Asst. Sec. of War. (Appointment arranged by Hon. Howard C. Petersen, Assistant Secretary of War)
[Public Papers: Letter to Senator Murray Concerning a Bill for a National Health Program]
[Public Papers: Statement by the President on Receiving Report of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry]
Congressman Richard Welch, California
Congressman Albert J. Engel, Michigan
Senator Lister Hill
National Commander Leon Dombrowski, LEGION OF VALOR, Former National Commander Frank Williams, Mr. Fred Kochli, a local member, Hon. Watson Miller, Federal Security Administrator (Appointment made at the request of Hon. Watson Miller - it is the custom for the Presidents to briefly receive the successive heads of this organization) (Pictures requested of the President and Commander Dombrowski)
Congressman Robinson, Utah, Senator Abe Murdock, Utah, Governor Herbert B. Haw, Utah. (appointment arranged by the Senator; re, Rehab. Bill)
(Mr. Adlai Stevenson) Appointment arranged by Mr. John Snyder.
The President signed the PHILIPPINE TRADE BILL AND THE PHILIPPINE REHABILITATION BILL, S.1610, with the following present: Secretary of Interior [Julius A. Krug], Hon. Millard E. Tydings, Gen Carlos P. Romulo, Resident Commissioner of the Philippines, Mr. Richard R. Ely, Spec. Asst. to the High Commissioner, Mr. James C. Penman, Administrative Consultant.
[Public Papers: Statement by the President Upon Signing Bills Providing for Philippine Rehabilitation and Trade]
Sen. Millard Tydings
British Ambassador, Lord Halifax, Mr. J. H. H. Gaute, Editorial Director of the British firm of Geo. G. Harrap and Co., Ltd. Mr. Don Hogate, McGraw Hill Book Co., Mr. Walter Hehmeyer and Mr. Frank McNaughton. (MR. GAUTE will present the President with de luxe copy of the English edition "This Man Truman")
(Mr. T. C. Cashen)
(Cabinet Luncheon)
(Mr. Frank J. Frohoff)
(Hon. Richmond Keech and Hon. Stephen T. Early)
Senator Harley Kilgore, W. Va.
The President will present the Medal for Merit for service with War Production Board to Hon. Julius A. Krug, Secretary of the Interior. (At the request of the Secretary of Interior there was no publicity nor photographs) (Mr. Keech brought over medal) Hon. Julius A. Krug, Secretary of Interior (Requested this appointment) [Public Papers: Citation Accompanying the Medal for Merit Awarded to Julius A. Krug]
Hon. Philip Murray, Mr. John Green, Shipbuilders Union (Mr. Murray requested this appointment)
Major General Philip B. Fleming, Federal Works Administrator (Requested the appointment)
Mr. Harry Lunsford (Mr. Lunsford is from Kansas City, and asked to come in to discuss one or two matters as well as pay his respects)
The Brazilian Ambassador, Col. Macedo Soares, Minister of Transportation and Public Works of Brazil. (Appointment arranged through State Department)
Hon Fred Vinson, The Secretary of the Treasury Hon. William L. Clayton
Senator George L. Radcliffe, Md.
(Lunch)
[Public Papers: Message to the Congress Transmitting Corporation Supplement to the Budget for 1947]
(Director Harold Smith) (Asked for the appointment)
Miss Catherine Sullivan (Mayor Sermon of Independence requested the appointment. Miss Sullivan is with the Inland Waterways Corp., St. Louis, and Mayor Sermon states she is and old friend of the President)
Commander Dow V. Walker, Nat. Commander, DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS, Mr. William E. Tate, National Director of Claims, Mr. Millard W. Rice, National Director of Public Relations. (To pay respects - appointment requested by Mr. Millard Rice)
(Mrs. Herbert E. Maw)
Justice Owen Roberts (The President asked for the Justice to come in)
Hon. Welch Pogue, Civil Aeronautics Board, Mr. Jerry Brophy (Appointment requested by Mr. Pogue)
(Mr. Edward Eynon) (Brought in autographed baseball for President)
Hon. Dean Acheson, Acting Secretary of State
(Mr. Edwin Pauley, Mr. Kline)
(Lunch)
Press and Radio Conference [Public Papers]
Executive Orders:  [9718 TERMINATION OF THE PETROLEUM ADMINISTRATION FOR WAR(1)]
[Public Papers: Statement by the President on the Forthcoming National Highway Safety Conference]
[Public Papers: Statement by the President Concerning Plans for Development of California's Water Resources]
[Public Papers: White House Statement Concerning Controls Over the Price and Distribution of Meat]
[Public Papers: Statement by the President Upon Reappointing Myron Taylor as His Personal Representative at the Vatican]
[Public Papers: Letter to Secretary Krug Concerning Termination of the Petroleum Administration for War]
Cabinet [Meeting] (All members present except the Secretary of Treasury and the Attorney General -- Secretary of Agriculture possibly did not attend.
(Mr. Robert O'Brien) (Appointment arranged by Hon. Robert Hannegan)
Hon. Wilson Wyatt (Requested the appointment)