Daily Appointments of Harry S. Truman
October 07, 1946
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| Associate Justice Robert H. Jackson | ||
| The President dropped in at the State A. A. A. which was being held in the theater at the White House. | ||
| (The President will leave the White House with Mrs. Truman to attend a concert at Constitution Hall.) | ||
| [Public Papers: Letter to Representative Pittenger of Minnesota Concerning Coal Supplies in the Midwest] | ||
| (General Harry H. Vaughan) (General Frank Lowe) | ||
| Mr. Herbert Moore, Chairman, Board of Transradio Press (Mr. Moore would like to pay respects as well as discuss several matters) (Arranged through Mr. Charles Ross) | ||
| Honorable Fiorello LaGuardia (Phoned for this appointment) | ||
| Dr. Joseph D. Charles, newly appointed Ambassador of Haiti (Assumed duties of his office and awaiting pleasure of the President to receive him - arranged through State Department) | ||
| Honorable Kenneth C. Royall, Under Secretary of War (He asked for this appointment) | ||
| The President received a group of Collectors of Internal Revenue, along with Commissioner Joseph D. Nunan, Jr.:~Mr. John E. Manning Mr. Paul A. Hankins~Mr. Henry Willingham Mr. William Stuart~Mr. Steven P. Vidal Mr. Horace Thompson~MR. Joseph Marcelle Mr. James G. Smyth~Mr. Wm. Pedrick Mr. Harry Westover~Mr. James Johnson Mr. Ralph Nicholas~Mr. Harry M. Hickey Mr. Frank W. Kraemer~Mr. Frank Shaughnessy Mr. Norman Collison~Mr. George T. McGowan Mr. John L. Pabs~Mr. Charles Robertson Mr. Marion H. Allen~Mr. Hector H. Perry Mr. Fred H. Hanne~Mr. Thomas Gallagher John R. Viley~Mr. John J. Quinlivan Mr. Nigel Campbell~Mr. Harry F. Busey Mr. Vincent Dallman~Mr. Thomas M. Carey F. Shirely Wilcox~Mr. Henry C. Jones Mr. Edward Birmingham~Mr. James W. Maloney Mr. Lynn R. Brodrick~Mr. Francis Smith Mr. Seldon R. Glenn~Mr. Joseph McDonald Mr. Chas. A. Donnelly~Mr. Stanley Granger Mr. Clinton Clauson~Mr. Farrell D. Coyle Mr. Geo. Hofferbert~Mr. Wm. P. Bowers Mr. Denis Delaney~Mr. Thomas C. Kasper Mr. Giles Kavangh~Mr. Lipe Henslee Mr. Elmer F. Kelm~Mr. Frank Scofield Mr. Eugene Fly~Mr. Herbert Arnold Mr. James P. Finnegan~Mr. William Korth Mr. Dan Neo~Mr. Sam Richardson Mr. Lewis Penwell~Mr. Nathaniel B. Early Mr. George O'Malley~Mr. Clark Squire Mr. Robert Douglass~Mr. F. Roy Yoke Mr. Peter M. Gagne~Mr. Frank J. Kuhl Mr. Harry L. Maloney~Mr. Frank G. Clark Mr. Irving Permeter, Head, Public Relations Division (Photographs were requested and Commissioner Nunan brought along with the group a Treasury photographer, Coastguardsman Charles Collins) | ||
| Mr. Roger Whiteford Hon. John Sullivan (To extend invitation to fall dinner at Burning Tree) | ||
| (Lunch) | ||
| (Honorable Samuel Rosenman) | ||
| (Mr. Charles Mack and other photographers of the White House Photographers Association will take photographs of the President to be used in connection with their annual dinner to be held on November 16th) (Arranged through Mr. Charles Ross) (OFF RECORD) | ||
| (Honorable Samuel I. Rosenman) (Mr. Louis Rosenthiel) | ||
| Honorable Sol Bloom Dr. Harry Noble Wright Dr. Nelson P. Mead Dr. Albert A. Berg Mr. James Flynn, New York City, Secretary of Alumni Association Mr. Lester M. Nichols, City College, New York (Appointment arranged by Congressman Bloom to present the first impression of the commemorative Centennial medal of the City College of New York to the President) (Photographs made) | ||
| Honorable James V. Forrestal Honorable John L. Sullivan Captain James Foskett Admiral Louis E. Denfeld, Chief of Navy Bureau Personnel | ||
| Senor Dr. Don. J. J. Vallarino, Ambassador of Panama Senor Ernesto de la Guardia, Vice President of the Republic of Panama (The Vice President wanted to pay respects to the President. Appointment arranged through the State Department) | ||
| Senator Burnet R. Maybank Honorable J. Strom Thurmond, Governor Elect of South Carolina Senator Olin D. Johnston, South Carolina | ||
| (Miss Elizabeth May Craig, the Portland, Maine, Press Herald) (Arranged through Mr. Charles Ross) | ||
| Honorable John Foster Dulles (To pay respects. He requested this appointment) | ||
| (Lunch) | ||
| (Mr. William Boyle) | ||
| (Honorable Leslie Biffle) | ||
| The Reverend Braxton Bragg Comer Lile, Rector, Christ Episcopal Church, Alexandria, Virginia The Reverend Oren Van Tuyl Chamberlain, Assistant Minister, Christ Episcopal Church (Reverend Lile requested the appointment to present to the President an informal invitation to the services in Christ Church on February 23rd next) | ||
| (The Secretary of the Treasury [John W. Snyder]) | ||
| (Honorable Joseph E. Davies) (Mr. Frank O. Salisbury) | ||
| Honorable Frank P. Corrigan, Ambassador to Venezuela (Was in Washington this week only and requested the appointment to pay respects and report to the President) | ||
| Major General Ralph E. Truman, Retired Mr. W. E. Mallalieu, General Manager, National Board of Fire Underwriters, New York City Mr. P. A. Christensen, President, National Board of Fire Underwriters, New York City Mr. Horace McMullen, Chief Special Agent, National Board of Fire Underwriters, Chicago Mr. A. Bruce Bielaski, Assistant General Manager, National Board of Fire Underwriters, New York City (General Truman requested the appointment) | ||
| Honorable Virgil Chapman, Congressman from Kentucky (Called for the appointment and wishes to discuss extension of Foreign Trade, particularly with reference to the tobacco industry - he speaks on behalf of several members of the Kentucky delegation.) | ||
| Mr. Mahmoud Hassan, the Ambassador of Egypt (Mr. Hassan has been raised from the rank of Minister to that of Ambassador - appointment arranged through State Department) | ||
| (Colonel Miles Knowles) | ||
| General Omar N. Bradley (Called for the appointment) | ||
| (Mr. Lynn Broderick, Collector, Internal Revenue, Kansas) | ||
| (Admiral William D. Leahy) (Mr. Edwin A. Locke) (Mr. Clark Clifford) (Mr. Charles Ross) | ||
| (Lunch) | ||
| Press and Radio Conference [Public Papers] | ||
| (Mr. Frank Salisbury) (Mr. Salisbury is an artist) | ||
| Cabinet [Meeting] (Honorable Dean Acheson for State; Honorable Oscar Chapman for Interior; Honorable Paul Porter) (Cabinet was held over for forty additional minutes) | ||
| Rabbi Philip Bernsten of Rochester, New York Honorable Robert P. Patterson (Arranged by the Secretary of War [Robert P. Patterson]) | ||
| Senator James W. Huffman, Ohio (Called and asked for this appointment) | ||
| Senator Elbert Thomas, Utah (Called and asked for this appointment) | ||
| Judge Albert Stephens of Los Angeles (Appointment arranged through Honorable Oscar Chapman. Mr. Oscar Chapman states that Judge Stephens is a "middle of the road man, politically minded and an active Democrat in the State." He was appointed to the Tenth Circuit Court in Los Angeles by Senator McAdoo, and has served in that capacity since) | ||
| Congressman Wright Patman of Texas (Requested this appointment) | ||
| Senator Joseph Guffey, Pennsylvania (Requested this appointment) | ||
| General Mark Clark; Mr. John G. Erhardt | ||
| H. E. Senor Don Marcial Mora, the retiring Ambassador of Chile (Arranged through Mr. Woodward - wishes to tell the President goodbye before leaving Washington) | ||
| (Lunch) | ||
| (Mr. Frank Salisbury) | ||
| Honorable James E. Webb, Director of the Budget Mr. Lee Martin | ||
| The Postmaster General [Robert E. Hannegan] | ||
| [Public Papers: Letter Accepting Resignation of Judge John J. Parker as Alternate Member of the International Military Tribunal] | ||
| (Frank Salisbury) | ||
| (Honorable John W. Snyder) | ||
| Executive Orders: [9789 TERMINATING THE OFFICE OF ALIEN PROPERTY CUSTODIAN AND TRANSFERRING ITS FUNCTIONS TO THE ATTORNEY GENERAL3] | ||
| Executive Orders: [9790 AMENDING EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 7926 of JULY 7, 1938, (1) ESTABLISHING THE WHEELER MIGRATORY WATERFOWL REFUGE (2)] | ||
| Executive Orders: [9788 TERMINATING THE OFFICE OF ALIEN PROPERTY CUSTODIAN AND TRANSFERRING ITS FUNCTIONS TO THE ATTORNEY GENERAL (3)] | ||
| (The President made a recording of a Christmas Message to be used for troops overseas - in the Oval Room of the White House - arranged by Mr. Charles Ross and the War Department. Major Mitchell brought a technician from the War Department and there was a representative of the National Broadcasting Company present) | ||
| (Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Ricketts) | ||
| Mr. Clyde Vandeburg, Director, National Aircraft Shows Mr. John E. P. Morgan, Executive Director, Aircraft Industries Association of America Mr. Thomas A. Burke, Mayor of Cleveland Mr. Frederick C. Crawford, President, Air Foundation of Cleveland Mr. Eugene Wilson, Chairman of the Board, Aircraft Industries Association of America (The President will accept from this group an invitation to visit the National Aircraft Show to be held in Cleveland, Ohio, from November 15th through November 24th) (Arranged through Captain James Foskett) | ||
| Honorable James E. Markham, Alien Property Custodian (Arranged through Mr. Clark Clifford) [Public Papers: Letter to James E. Markham Upon the Conclusion of His Duties as Alien Property Custodian] | ||
| Honorable Basil O'Connor, Chairman, American Red Cross (Called for this appointment) | ||
| Honorable Dean Acheson, Acting Secretary of State Honorable Ray Atherton (Usual semi-weekly appointment) | ||
| (Lunch) | ||
The President broadcast from the White House on
the State of the Union (Meat situation)
[Public Papers: Radio Report to the Nation Announcing the Lifting of Major Price Controls]
[ Audio MP3 ]
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| Senator Richard B. Russell, Georgia (Called and asked for this appointment) | ||
| Honorable George Smathers, Democratic Nominee for Congress, Florida General Harry Baird (Requested the appointment and wish to discuss Naval Base) | ||
| H. E. Senor Dr. Don Antonio Espinosa de los Monteros (Arranged through State Department - wishes to thank President for invitation to President-Elect Aleman to visit United States and to explain why invitation cannot be accepted) | ||
| Honorable Oscar Ewing, Vice Chairman, Democratic National Committee | ||
| (Mr. Bert Andrews, Washington Representative of the New York Herald Tribune) (Off record and arranged by Mr. Charles Ross) | ||
| Honorable Louis J. O'Marr, Attorney General of Wyoming (Arranged through Mr. Leslie Biffle and Senator O'Mahoney's office. Senator felt it would be helpful if the President would see Judge O'Marr) | ||
| (Lunch) | ||
| (Mr. Paul Dillon) (Judge Joynt) | ||
| The President received the following members of the Advisory Board, Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion: Honorable John Steelman Mr. T. C. Cashen Mr. Nathaniel Dyke Mr. Albert Goss Mr. Philip Murray Mr. Edward Felker Mr. George Taylor Mrs. Anna Rosenberg | ||
| (The Secretary of the Treasury [John W. Snyder]) | ||
| The President received the Members of the Supreme Court at the White House. This is their annual call. In addition to the nine members, the following will be present: Mr. Charles E. Cropley, Clerk Mr. Thomas W. Waggaman Mr. Walter Wyatt Mr. Paul Kelly Attorney General [Tom C. Clark] Solicitor General | ||
| Major General A. V. Arnold, Retiring Governor of Korea | ||
| General H. H. Arnold | ||
| Dr. Edwin G. Nourse, Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers (Requested a half hour) | ||
| (Ambassador and Mrs. Joseph Davies) (Mr. and Mrs. Frank Salisbury) | ||
| (Lunch) | ||
| (Honorable Edwin A. Locke) | ||
| (Honorable Clark Clifford) (Honorable Charles Ross) (Honorable Richmond Keech) (General Wallace Graham) | ||
| (The President and Mrs. Truman attended opening performance of National Symphony Orchestra at Constitution Hall) | ||
| On this date, ten leading Nazi war criminals were hanged in Nuremberg. See student research file, The War Crimes Trials at Nuremberg: documents, photographs and more. | ||
| Executive Orders: [9791 PROVIDING FOR A STUDY OF SCIENTIFIC RESEACH AND DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES AND ESTABLISHING THE PRESIDENT'S SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH BOARD] | ||
| [Public Papers: Letter to Justice Jackson Upon the Conclusion of His Duties With the Nurnberg Tribunal] | ||
| [Public Papers: Statement by the President Upon Signing Order Establishing the President's Scientific Research Board] | ||
| The Secretary of State [James F. Byrnes] | ||
| Honorable Marriner S. Eccles, Chairman, Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System | ||
| Honorable Wilson Wyatt, Administrator National Housing Agency (Requested the appointment) | ||
| (Mr. Michael Chinigo, Rome Bureau INS) (Arranged by Mr. Charles Ross - off record) | ||
| (Lunch) | ||
| Cabinet (Honorable Norris E. Dodd, Under Secretary of Agriculture will attend for Agriculture; Senator McKellar will not be here) | ||
| (Attorney General [Tom C. Clark]) (Mr. William Mathes) | ||
| Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hodges of Olathe, Kansas (Mr. Hodges wrote to the President concerning the housing situation in that area and in Kansas City. States he would be glad to undertake some advisory position in order to enforce reforms in the pro- cedure of building -- Mr. Hodges' nephew, Mr. Murray H. Hodges, is candidate for Congress on the Democratic ticket) | ||
| (Associate Justice Frank Murphy) (Wishes to tell the President about conversations he had with the Pope and de Valera) (Came in the East Entrance) | ||
| Colonel Clarence M. Young, Member Civil Aeronautics Board (Arranged by Mr. Edwin Locke) | ||
| Mr. Arthur Sweetser, Head of the Information Office of the United Nations in Washington (Arranged by Mr. Charles Ross) | ||
| Honorable W. Stuart Symington General Carl Spaatz General Emmett O'Connell (Brought in the crew fo the PACUSAN DREAMBOAT to meet the President - pictures were taken. (PACUSAN DREAMBOAT is B-29 Superfortress which recently flew non-stop from Hawaii to Egypt and returned to Washington yesterday) Crew Members as follows: Colonel Irvine, Pilot Colonel Beverly H. Warren, Second Pilot Major James R. Dale, Jr., flight engineer R. B. Snodgrass, second flight engineer Major Norman P. Hays, navigator Major James T. Brothers, second navigator Major James R. Kerr, personal equipment officer Master Sgt. Gordon Fish, crew chief and scanner Lt. Colonel Frank J. Shannon, radio operator Master Sgt. Edward G. Vanse, second radio operator |