Daily Appointments of Harry S. Truman
September 25, 1946
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| (Lunch) | ||
| (The President left for the Washington Navy Yard for an inspection trip of the Gun Factory) | ||
| Vice Admiral Wm. W. Smith, Chairman, U.S.Maritime Commission (Has wanted this for a long time) | ||
| The Secretary of the Navy [James Forrestal] (Asked for this appointment on Monday) | ||
| Honorable Edith Nourse Rogers, Mass. (He called Mr. Connelly for this appointment) | ||
| The President will receive following members of the President's Committee for Financing Foreign Trade: Mr. Winthrop W. Aldrich, Chairman, Chase National Bank, New York, City Mr. Shepard Morgan, Secretary, Vice President Chase National Bank Mr. Champ Carry, President, Pullman Standard Car Manufacturers, Chicago, Ill. Mr. Walter Cummings, Chairman, Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust Company, Chicago, Illinois Mr. A.M. Giannini, President, Bank of America, San Francisco, California Mr. Ed Hopkinson, Jr., Drexel & Company, Philadelphia, Pa. Mr. Fowler McCormick, Chairman, International Harvester Company, Chicago, Illinois Mr. Herbert H. Pease, President, New Britain Machine Company of New Britain, Conn. Honorable Tom K. Smith, President, Boatman's National Bank of St. Louis (This committee meeeting yesterday and today in Washington and asked two weeks ago if they could call on the President during their stay in the city.) | ||
| (Mr. Champ Carry) | ||
| Honorable George Wadsworth, American Minister to Lebanon and Syria (In Washington for consultation and requested an appointment with the President before leaving for his post at Beirut, middle of October) | ||
| Honorable William Clayton, Acting Secretary of State (Usual Thursday appointment) | ||
| (Lunch) | ||
| Press and Radio Conference [Public Papers] | ||
| Mr. Leonard Hicks | ||
| The Secretary of the Treasury [John W. Snyder] (The Secretary asked for this appointment) | ||
| The President and Mrs. Truman received at the White House the Members of the Executive Committee of the Democratic National Committee (who had been called to Washington by Chairman Hannegan, to discuss final phases of the Congressional election campaign.) | ||
| Cabinet (Only substitutes were: Honorable William Clayton for State; Honorable Alfred Schindler for Commerce. No one for Agriculture, as the Secretary is away and the Under Secretary is in Europe. No agenda but individual members were told it was important) (Honorable J. Howard McGrath came for the Department of Justice) | ||
| Senator Kenneth McKellar, Tennessee Senator Tom Stewart, Tennessee Congressman Wm. M. Whittington, Miss. Cong. Clifford Davis, Tennessee Congressman Oren Harris, Arkansas Congressman Charles R. Robertson, N.D (R) Congressman Clarence F. Lea, California Congressman J. Glen Beall, Maryland (R) Mr. George Hazelwood from Potomac River Commission Mr. Owen Hitchens, from Potomac River Commission Congressman J.P. Geeland, Connecticut Mr. Marshall B. Diersson This is a Flood Control Committee of which Senator Overton is Chairman, and is composed of Representatives and Senators from the alluvial States. | ||
| (Honorable David Lilienthal) (Arranged by Mr. Clark Clifford - off record) | ||
| (Honorable Howard McGrath) (Mr. Nicholas Brown) (Senator Theodore F. Green) (Arranged by Mr. Matthew Connelly at Mr. Howard McGrath's suggestion, off record) | ||
| (Major Tom Boyle of New York) (Represents Paul Fitzpatrick of New York, off record, but will come in front way ostensibly to see Mr. Matthew Connelly) | ||
| (Lunch) | ||
| (Mr. Clark Clifford will bring in his mother-in-law, Mrs. Kimball, to meet the President) | ||
| Honorable James E. Webb Director, Bureau of the Budget | ||
| The President left in the "Sacred Cow" for West Point, where the President reviewed the Cadet Corps and saw the football game between Army and Oklahoma. Army won. | ||
| [Public Papers: Remarks to the Cadet Corps at West Point] | ||
| Returned to the White House. | ||
| Remained in the White House | ||
| Senator Harley M. Kilgore, West Virginia Mr. George Meador | ||
| Honorable J.D. Small, Administrator, Civilian Production Administration (Called Mr. Matthew Connelly and asked for this appointment) | ||
| Mrs. Ogden L. Mills, National President, American Women's Voluntary Services, Inc. (To present to the President a check for $3,326.40, which was collected by the Fairbanks, Alaska, Unit of American Women's Voluntary Services, Inc., for the Emergency Food Campaign. Mrs. Mills is wife of former Secretary of the Treasury in Hoover Administration) | ||
| The Secretary of the Navy [James Forrestal] Vice Admiral John Towers Rear Admiral Charles Pownall, Governor of Guam (Secretary James Forrestal asked that the President see them) | ||
| Colonel Clarence M. Young, Member, Civil Aeronautics Brd. (Originally suggested by Mr. Locke and set for last Friday - postponed until today) | ||
| Miss Elizabeth G. Brooks, Chief Nurse, Pediatrics, Washington University Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri. Miss Nelle Morgan, President, Missouri State Nurses Association, and Superintendent of Independence Sanitarium, Independence, Missouri Miss Katherine Densford Mrs. Emily Johnson (Miss Brooks selected as "Typical American Nurse" at Convention in Atlantic City, September 23-27, of American Nurses Association. Appointment with the President requested as it was felt through this visit attention of public might be brought to bear on not only the American Nurses Association, but the acute shortage of nurses. Mrs. Truman will join the President in this appointment, in accordance with the request of the American Nurses Association, presented to Mrs. Truman in Independence, Missouri, by Miss Morgan of the Independence Sanitarium) | ||
| Honorable Dean Acheson, The Acting Secretary of State (Usual Monday appointment) | ||
| (Lunch) | ||
| (Honorable George Allen) | ||
| Executive Orders: [9785 AMENDMENT OF EXECUTIVE ORDER 9744B OF JUNE 29, 1946, PRESCRIBING REGULATIONS GOVERNING THE FURNISHING OF CLOTHING IN KIND OR PAYMENT OF CASH ALLOWANCES IN LIEW THEREOF TO ENLISTED PERSONNEL OF THE NAVY, THE COAST GUARD, THE NAVAL RESERVE AND THE COAST GUA] | ||
| The Postmaster General [Robert A. Hannegan] | ||
| Congressman Sol Bloom, New York (Called Mr. Connelly and asked for this appointment) | ||
| (Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Luff, Independence, Missouri) | ||
| Congressman Brent Spence, Ky. (He wired Mr. Connelly last week from Newport, Ky.) | ||
| Honorable Chester Bowles (He asked for this appointment about ten days ago) | ||
| Honorable Mihail Ralen, the Minister of Rumania (Newly appointed - to present credentials. Copies of the President's and the Minister's letters, as well as biographical sketch furnished the President) | ||
| Honorable Charles Sawyer, of Ohio (Former Ambassador to Belgium - phoned Mr. Connelly yesterday for this appointment) | ||
| (Mr. Harry J. Salsbury, Jr.) (Old friend of the President, now in Internal Revenue Legal Division here in Washington - will come in ostensibly to see Mr. Connelly) | ||
| (Lunch) | ||
| (Honorable Eric Johnston) | ||
| The President received the members of the Advisory Board of the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion: Honorable John R. Steelman Mr. T. C. Cashen Mr. Nathaniel Dyke Mr. Albert Goss Hon. Eric A. Johnston Mrs. Anna Rosenberg Mr. Edward Felker Mr. George W. Taylor | ||
| (Mr. M. R. Evans) | ||
| (The President will open Community Chest Drive by five minute broadcast from Oval Room) [Public Papers] | ||
| On this date the verdicts against the major Nazi war criminals were handed down by the International Military Tribunal. See student research file The War Crimes Trials at Nuremberg: documents, photographs and more. | ||
| Senator Kenneth McKellar, Tenn. Senator Tom Stewart, Tennessee (Senator Stewart asked for this appointment) | ||
| Congressman Emmett O'Neal, Ky. (Asked to bring in two businessmen, who are prominent in housing field - was turned down on this and told he could come, but alone.) | ||
| Honorable James P. McGranery, U. S. District Judge, Eastern District of Pennsylvania (Called Mr. Matthew Connelly for this appointment) | ||
| Senator Joseph F. Guffey, Pa. Senator Francis J. Myers, Pa. Mayor Frank Hague Congressman Michael J. Bradley (Senator Guffey and Senator Myers both asked for this appointment, and originally were going to bring J. David Stern - he cannot come over. They say they want to discuss a Regional OPA appointment) | ||
| General Albert Orsborn, newly elected head of the Salvation Army, with headquarters in London, Eng. Commissioner Ernest I. Pugmire, National Commander of the Salvation Army in the United States Commissioner William C. Arnold, Territorial Commander of the Southern Territory, of which Washington, D. C. is a part. Mr. Robert L. McKeever, Member of the Advisory Board, Salvation Army Brigadier Wesley Bouterse (Mr. Robert McKeever asked for this through Mr. George Schoenaman, so that General Orsborn might pay his respects. General Orsborn is an Englishman on tour of Salvation Army Centers in the United States, and then will go on to South America. The State Department knows of his appointment although not arranged in usual way. They wanted pictures) | ||
| Judge Jasper Y. Brinton, President of the Mixed Courts of Egypt (In this country and requested an appointment with the President. Judge Brinton is distinguished American jurist and has been the American member of the Mixed Courts in Egypt for the past 25 years.) | ||
| H. E. Lester B. Pearson, the retiring Canadian Ambassador (Has been recalled by his Government to assume direction of the Canadian Ministry of External Affairs. Has requested an appointment with the President to pay respects before departure on October 4th) | ||
| Honorable James J. Caffrey, Chairman, Securities and Exchange Commission (In city for several days and requested an appoint- ment) | ||
| General Robert M. Littlejohn, War Assets Administrator (General Littlejohn asked for this appointment through General Harry Vaughan) | ||
| Dr. Hugh Delton, Chancellor of the Exchechquer The British Ambassador Lord Catto, Governor of the Bank of England (The British Embassy requested this) | ||
| (Lunch) | ||
| (Mr. George Charno) | ||
| Honorable Fred Vinson, the Chief Justice, U. S. Supreme Court and the Senior Circuit Judges, as follows: Honorable Calvert Magruder, First Circuit Honorable Learned Hand, Second Circuit Honorable John Biggs, Jr., Third Circuit Honorable Morris A. Soper, Fourth Circuit Honorable Samuel H. Sibley, Fifth Circuit Honorable Xen Hicks, Sixth Circuit Honorable J. Earl Major, Seventh Circuit Honorable Kimbrough Stone, Eighth Circuit Honorable Francis A. Garrecht, Ninth Circuit Honorable Orie L. Phillips, Tenth Circuit Honorable D. Lawrence Groner, Chief Justice, Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia | ||
| The President will receive, at the White House, for tea, the members of the Board of Governors of the International Monetary Fund. Also the Cabinet. (Stag) | ||
| Press and Radio Conference [Public Papers] | ||
| (Major Paul M. Long, Missouri) | ||
| Honorable James E. Webb. Director, Bureau of Budget (Honorable John Steelman) (Dr. Steelman and Mr. Webb had a conference yesterday afternoon and Dr. Steelman thought they should see the President as early today as possible for about ten minutes.) | ||
| Honorable Richard R. Deupree, Chairman Army Navy Munitions Board (Also President of the Proctor and Gamble Company. He asked Mr. Connelly for this appointment) | ||
| (Mr. Max Lowenthal) | ||
| (Honorable Lowell Mason) (Wants to thank the President, as this is anniversary of his appointment to Federal Trade Commission, one year ago.) | ||
| Honorable Dean Acheson, the Acting Secretary of State Honorable William Clayton, Assistant Secretary of State (State Department's usual Thursday appointment) | ||
| (Lunch) | ||
| Judge John J. Parker | ||
| (Mr. and Mrs. Rudy Block) | ||
| (Mr. George Creel) | ||
| [Public Papers: Statement by the President Following the Adjournment of the Palestine Conference in London] | ||
| Honorable Paul Porter (The President wanted to see before Cabinet) | ||
| Cabinet [Meeting] (No agenda. Substitutes: Honorable Dean Acheson for State; Honorable Alfred Schindler for Commerce. Post Office Department not represented.) | ||
| Honorable Preston Lane Senator George L. Radcliffe, Maryland Senator Millard E. Tydings, Maryland (Mr. Lane requested this appointment through Mr. Hassett. They wanted to discuss their candidate for Solicitor General of U. S., when and if such a vacancy occurs) | ||
| Honorable Bennett Champ Clark (He called Mr. Connelly and asked for this appointment) | ||
| Honorable Richard Nacy | ||
| The President received the officers of the Navy patrol plane "Truculent Turtle": Commander T. D. Davies and Mrs. Davies Commander E. P. Rankin and Mrs. Rankin Commander W. S. Reid and Mrs. Reid Lieutenant Commander R. H. Tabeling The following accompanied the pilot and crew: Fleet Admiral C. W. Nimitz Admiral D. C. Ramsay Admiral M. A. Mitscher Vice Admiral L. E. Denfeld Vice Admiral A. W. Radford Vice Admiral R. B. Carney Vice Admiral F. C. Sherman Vice Admiral J. L. McCrea Vice Admiral W. H. P. Blandy Rear Admiral J. J. Clark Rear Admiral H. B. Sallada Rear Admiral L. C. Stevens Captain L. Conn Captain T. B. Haley Captain L. Simpler Commander E. B. Fluckey Commander G. C. Bullard Commander E. M. Stover | ||
| Dr. Herman B. Baruch, U. S. Ambassador to Portugal (Requested this appointment while in the United States.) | ||
| Honorable W. Averell Harriman (Called Mr. Connelly yesterday from New York City and asked for one-half hour.) | ||
| (Lunch) | ||
| Judge and Mrs. Jim McGranery and two sons | ||
| (Honorable James V. Vardaman) | ||
| (Mr. Herman Rosenberg) | ||
| Senator Spessard Holland, Florida Mr. Paul Brown | ||
| Executive Orders: [9787 AMENDMENT OF EXECUTIVE ORDER 7747 OF NOVEMBER 20, 1937, AS AMENDED, ESTABLISHING THE SAN CLEMENTE ISLAND NAVAL DEFENSIVE SEA AREA1] | ||
| Executive Orders: [9786 REGULATIONS REGARD THE CONSIDERATION, ADJUSTMENT, AND SETTLEMENT OF CLAIMS UNDER PUBLIC LAW 657, APPROVED AUGUST 7, 1946.] | ||
| No official list | ||
| (The Secretary of the Treasury [John W. Snyder]) | ||
| Honorable William D. Pawley, U. S. Ambassador to Brazil (Called Mr. Connelly last Friday from the State Department for this appointment) | ||
| Mrs. Ogden Reid, Owner and Publisher, New York Herald-Tribune (Mrs. Reid requested this through her Washington Office) | ||
| Honorable James Landis, Chairman, Civil Aeronautics Board) (Arranged by Mr. Edwin Locke - for one-half hour) | ||
| The Secretary of War, Robert P. Patterson The Assistant Secretary of War, Honorable Howard Peterson (Requested this appointment last week after Cabinet) | ||
| Honorable Dean Acheson, the Acting Secretary of State (Usual Monday appointment) | ||
| (Lunch) | ||
| (Honorable George Allen) |