Daily Appointments of Harry S. Truman
November 30, 1948
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| Honorable Clinton Anderson, Senator-elect from New Mexico (Asked Mr. Connelly to arrange this appointment) | ||
| The Attorney General [Tom C. Clark] Mr. Ralph Pittman Mr. Robert C. Simmons, Metropolitan Police Boys Club Mr. Carroll Bird, President, Touchdown Club Mr. J. O'Connor Roberts, Chairman, Finance Committee Touchdown Club Mr. Hicks G. Griffith (Presented the President with tickets for Metropolitan Police Boys Club Football Game) | ||
| Honorable John W. Gibson, Assistant Secretary of Labor Honorable G. Mennen Williams, Governor-elect of Michigan (Secretary Gibson asked Mr. Connelly to arrange this) | ||
| (Honorable H. Graham Morrison [Morison], Assistant Attorney General (To bring his mother in to shake hands with the President.) | ||
| Honorable Paul V. McNutt (Asked Mr. Connelly to arrange this) | ||
| Honorable Roy J. Turner, President Truman-Barkley Clubs Honorable Leslie Biffle Mr. John Nangle Mr. M. R. Evans Mr. Steve Harrington Honorable Welburn Mayock Mr. H. W. McNeil Mr. Joseph M. Durst Mr. J. H. Arrington (Judge Mayock asked Mr. Connelly to arrange this. Mr. Biffle phoned yesterday to say he thought the President should be forewarned that they planned to ask him if he would like the Truman-Barkley Clubs to continue) | ||
| Mr. Clarence E. Magee, of Portsmouth, Va. (This arranged at request of Mr. Dave Glazer, City Editor, Portsmouth Star. Mr. Magee led spirited campaign in Portsmouth and Norfolk County to elect the President) | ||
| H. E. Signor Alberto Tarchiand, Ambassador of Italy (To deliver message from his Government. Mr. Woodward, in requesting this appointment, stated it is understood message is from Prime Minister de Gasperi and sets forth Italian Government's concern over our position on Italian Colonies.) | ||
| (Mr. Lester Markel, Sunday Editor, New York Times) (Asked to have this arranged - off record) | ||
| Major General Philip B. Fleming, Federal Works Administration | ||
| (Lunch) | ||
| Dr. H. H. Kung Dr. J. Z. Huang | ||
| Honorable James E. Webb, Director, Bureau of the Budget Honorable Frank Pace | ||
| (The Secretary of Defense [James Forrestal]) (Honorable Donald Carpenter) | ||
| Honorable Herbert C. Hoover | ||
| (Mr. Jules Kohn) | ||
| (Admiral Paul Foster) (Honorable Clark Clifford) | ||
| (Mr. William Hillman) (Off the record) | ||
| Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney, Wyo. (Phoned Mr. Connelly last week to ask for this appointment) | ||
| Honorable Eric Johnston (Phoned Mr. Connelly last week to ask for this appointment) | ||
| Honorable Thomas B. McCabe,Chairman, Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System (Asked Mr. Connelly last week to arrange this.) | ||
| Mr. Anthony A. Buford, of St. Louis (The Secretary of the Treasury [John W. Snyder]) (Mr. Buford wrote Mr. Connelly early last week to say he would be here at this time and would like to see the President.) | ||
| Honorable Cyrus S. Ching, Director, Federal Mediation & Conciliation Service) (Wrote the President, "Not having had an opportunity to discuss the legislative problems in the field of labor relations with any of the other interested agencies, I should appreciate the privilege of discussing them with you, insofar as they have bearing on the responsibilities of the service.) | ||
| The Secretary of the Treasury [John W. Snyder] | ||
| (Colonel Louis Truman) (Off the record) | ||
| (The Secretary of the Navy [John L. Sullivan]) | ||
| Sir Carl Berendsen, K.C.M.G., the Ambassador of New Zealand (Newly raised from rank of Minister) | ||
| Honorable Averell Harriman (Phoned Mr. Connelly late yesterday to ask for this) | ||
| (Lunch) | ||
| Honorable James E. Webb, Director, Bureau of the Budget Honorable Frank Pace, Assistant Director (One half hour) | ||
| (The Secretary of Defense [James Forrestal]) (General Dwight Eisenhower) | ||
| Honorable George H. Christopher, Congressman-elect, 6th District of Missouri Mr. Will Hargus | ||
| (Mr. Dan Nee) (Mr. Ferd Owen) | ||
| (Honorable Robert Hannegan) | ||
| (Honorable Dean Acheson) | ||
| Executive Orders: [10019 EXCUSING FEDERAL EMPLOYEES FROM DUTY ONE-HALF DAY ON DECEMBER 24 1948] | ||
| Dr. Edwin G. Nourse, Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers (Phoned Mr. Matthew Connelly on Monday to ask for this) | ||
| Honorable Joseph Keenan, War Crimes Commission (Brings report from McArthur and the Emperor of Japan) | ||
| Mr. James G. Patton, President, National Farmers Union Mr. Russell Smith, Legislative Secretary, Farmers Union Mr. Glenn Talbott, Chairman, Executive Committee,Farmers Union (Patton phoned Mr. Matthew Connelly to ask for this) | ||
| Honorable Homer Cummings Honorable Michael Francis Doyle, of Philadelphia (Asked to come in to formally invite the President to attend the Elector's Dinner, January 19th) | ||
| Honorable Willilam McChesney Martin, Jr., Chairman and President, Board of Directors, Export-Import Bank of Washington (The President wrote to him from Key West, stating he was looking forward to seeing him upon his return to Washington.) | ||
| Honorable J. Waties Waring, Judge of U. S. District Court for Eastern District of South Carolina (Attorney General [Tom C. Clark] wrote Mr. Matthew Connelly that Judge Waring had talked to him about his contemplated trip to Washington, and had expressed wish to have appointment with the President while here.) | ||
| Mr. Harry Martin, President, Newspaper Guild, Portland, Oregon (Wired Mr. Charles Ross, asking for this appointment) | ||
| Honorable J. Monroe Johnson, Member, Interstate Commerce Commission (Honorable John R. Steelman) (Colonel Louis Johnson phoned Mr. Matthew Connelly last week to ask if he could call on the President and have Dr. John R. Steelman sit in on the meeting) | ||
| Mr. Thomas Beck, of Collier's Magazine Admiral Louis E. Denfeld, Chief, Naval Operations (To discuss with the President idea of using a flattop for a round-the-world peace tour) | ||
| Honorable George McGill, former Member, U. S. Tariff Commission (Ran for Senate in Kansas and was defeated.) | ||
| The Secretary of State [George C. Marshall] (Usual Thursday appointment) | ||
| (Lunch) | ||
| (Honorable Clinton Anderson) (Dr. Louis Bean) | ||
| Press and Radio Conference [Public Papers] | ||
| After Press: (Mr. Sam Solins) (Mr. Kelly Scruton) (Judge Frank Monroe) (Mr. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.) | ||
| [Public Papers: Statement by the President on Highway Safety] | ||
| [Public Papers: Letter to Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., Concerning Cooperation by the Broadcasting Industry in the Highway Safety Program] | ||
| Cabinet [Meeting] (Senator Alben Barkley unable to attend. Robert Lovett for State - All others present) | ||
| Honorable Paul Hoffman | ||
| (Mr. and Mrs. Tom Scully) | ||
| Senator Tom Connally, Texas (Phoned Mr. Matthew Connelly earlier in week for this) | ||
| Honorable Paul Fitzpatrick, Democratic State Chairman, N. Y. (Phoned Mr. Matthew Connelly earlier in week for this) | ||
| Colonel Louis Johnson Major S. Perry Brown, of Texas, newly elected National Cammander of American Legion Former Commander Paul Griffith | ||
| Admiral Ross T. McIntire Honorable Robert Ramspeck Honorable Basil O'Connor (Admiral McIntire asked Mr. Matthew Connelly to arrange) | ||
| The President's Committee on Religious and Moral Welfare and Character Guidance in the Armed Services: Miss Dorothy Edwards Miss Camille Fenn Mr. Truman Gibson Dr. Lindsley F. Kimball Mr. Mark A. McCloskey Mr. Basil O'Connor Mrs. Ferdinand Powell, Sr. Mr. Dean Snyder Mr. Worthington Thompson Mr. Frank L. Weil The Reverend Edmund A. Walsh Also present: The Secretary of Defense [James Forrestal] The Secretary of the Army [Kenneth C. Royall] The Secretary of the Navy [John L. Sullivan] The Secretary of the Air Force [Stuart Symington] | ||
| Honorable Carl Rice, Democratic National Committeeman, for Kansas (Arranged at request of Senator J. Howard McGrath) | ||
| Mr. Boris Shiskin (Asked Mr. Matthew Connelly to arrange this) | ||
| Honorable Laurence A. Steinhardt, U. S. Ambassador, to Canada (Phoned Mr. Matthew Connelly from Ottawa, early in week for this.) | ||
| Mr. Jules Kohn Mr. Ralph Tucker | ||
| (Lunch) | ||
| The Secretary of the Army [Kenneth C. Royall] General Omar Bradley | ||
| Honorable Wayne Coy, Stephen Coy and Wayne Coy, Jr. (Mr. Coy asked for this for official purposes, and then asked if he might bring his sons with him to meet the President, as they have never met him) | ||
| Honorable James E. Webb, Director, Bureau of Budget Honorable Frank Pace, Assistant Director (One-half hour) | ||
| The President and Miss Truman left the Blair House for the National Press Club where they attended a father-daughter dinner. | ||
| They joined Mrs. Truman and guests aboard the USS WILLIAMSBURG for cruise to Norfolk, Va. | ||
| (Mr. Kelly Scruton) (Judge Frank Monroe) (Mr. Noel Tweed) | ||
| Honorable Arthur M. Hill, Chairman, National Security Resources Board (Asked Mr. Matthew Connelly to arrange this) | ||
| (Honorable Raymond S. McKeough, Commissioner, Maritime Commission of U. S. (Asked Mr. Matthew Connelly to give him an off-the-record appointment) | ||
| (Mr. Nick Bez) (Off the record) | ||
| Congressman Albert Thomas, Texas (Phoned Mr. Matthew Connelly early last week to ask for this) | ||
| Honorable James Finnegan, Collector of Internal Revenue, St. Louis, Missouri; Mr. James A. Waechter Mr. Jack Dwyer, Democratic City Chairman, St. Louis (Mr. Finnegan called Mr. Matthew Connelly from St. Louis to ask for this.) | ||
| General Efisio Marras, Chief of Staff of the Italian Army The Italian Ambassador Colonel Anthony Biddle (State Department asked that the President receive General Marras, who is visiting United States during first three weeks of December as Guest of the U. S. Army, at invitation of General Bradley) | ||
| The Under Secretary of State) (Usual Monday appointment) | ||
| (Cabinet Luncheon - Senator Alben Barkley absent. Robert Lovett for George Marshall for State - all others present) | ||
| (THe Secretary of the Navy [John L. Sullivan]) (The Secretary of Defense [James Forrestal]) | ||
| Honorable James E. Webb Honorable Frank Pace (one-half hour appointment) | ||
| Executive Orders: [10020 PRESCRIBING THE MANUAL FOR COURTS-MARTIAL, U.S. ARMY 1949] | ||
| [Public Papers: White House Statement Concerning U.S. Assistance to Palestine Refugees] | ||
| (Honorable and Mrs Ben Adamowski and their two sons) (At request of Raymond McKeough. Adamowski is Corporation Counsel of Chicago. Off the record) | ||
| Honorable Maury Maverick | ||
| Honorable Charles Luckman (Saw Mr. Connelly yesterday and asked for this) | ||
| Honorable David Dubinsky Mr. Alex Rose (Called Mr. Connelly last week from New York and requested this appointment) | ||
| The Postmaster General [Jesse M. Donaldson] | ||
| (Honorable George Harrison, President, Union of RR Clerks) (Requested appointment last week. Off the record) | ||
| Honorable Lowell Mason, Federal Trade Commission Mr. Pete Cameron of Polaroid Co. (Mr. Cameron wishes to present to the President, on behalf of the Polaroid Co., a camera developed by this company. Will take a picture and develop it in sixty seconds) | ||
| Honorable Edward J. Flynn (The President wrote him in reply to one of Mr. Flynn's letters, that he would be glad to see him upon return from Miami) | ||
| Dr. Clyde Minges, President, American Dental Association Dr. Willard Camalier, Past Preisdent Dr. Daniel Lynch, Trustee Dr. Leon Cramer,Kansas State Board of Health Dr. Bruce Forsyth Senator James E. Murray, Montana Honorable Leslie Biffle Dr. H. E. Kelly Dr. H. C. Janke (Arrange at request of Dr.Forsyth, who has received the request from Dr. Camalier. Their purpose in calling is to request the President to issue a proclamation establishing a Children's Dental Health Day.) | ||
| Dr. Edwin G. Nourse, Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers Honorable Leon H. Keyserling, Vice Chairman Honorable John D. Clark, Member (Dr. Nourse asked for this last week) one-half hour | ||
| Mr. Frank Land, of Kansas City (Arrange sometime ago with Mr. Connelly) | ||
| (Lunch) | ||
| John F. Hundley | ||
| (Congressman J. Percy Priest) | ||
| The Secretary of the Army [Kenneth C. Royall] (One-Half hour) | ||
| (Honorable Edwin Pauley) |