Daily Appointments of Harry S. Truman
February 14, 1949
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| Executive Orders: [10037 CREATING AN EMERGENCY BOARD TO INVESTIGATE A DISPUTE BETWEEN THE DENVER & RIO GRANDE WESTERN RAILROAD COMPANY AND CERTAIN OF ITS EMPLOYEES] | ||
| Congressman Abraham J. Multer, New York (Asked Mr. Connelly to arrange this so that he might discuss with the President the Middle East situation) | ||
| Senator Claude Pepper, Florida Senator Spessard L. Holland, Florida (Senator Pepper asked Mr. Connelly to arrange, stating they wished to discuss matter pertaining to Florida which they feel is quite important) | ||
| Senator Harley M. Kilgore, W. Va. (Asked Mr. Connelly to arrange this as soon as possible) | ||
| (Honorable Oscar Ewing, Administrator, Federal Security Agency) (Mr. Earl McGrath) (Off-the-record) | ||
| (Honorable David Lilienthal, Chairman, Atomic Energy Com.) (Mr. Connelly told him the President would like to see him today, off-the-record) | ||
| Honorable James E. Webb, the Under Secretary of State Honorable Garrison Norton, Asst. Secretary of State (Mr. Webb asked Mr. Connelly to arrange this) | ||
| The Secretary of State [Dean G. Acheson] (Usual Monday appointment) | ||
| (Cabinet Lunch) | ||
| (Honorable Stanley Woodward) | ||
| Honorable Frank Pace, Director, Bureau of Budget | ||
| (The President and Mrs. Truman left for Blair House for Statler Hotel, where they attended American Newspaper Women's Club Ball.) | ||
| Executive Orders: [10038 CREATING AN EMERGENCY BOARD TO INVESTIGATE DISPUTE BETWEEN THE CARRIERS REPRESENTED BY THE EASTERN CARRIERS' CONFERENCE COMMITTEE, WESTERN CARRIERS' CONFERENCE COMMITTEE AND SOUTHEASTERN CARRIERS' CONFERENCE COMMITTEE, AND CERTAIN OF THEIR EMPLOYEES] | ||
| Honorable Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the House Honorable Oscar Ewing, Administrator, Federal Security Agency Honorable Arthur J. Altmeyer, Commissioner, Social Security Administration Congressman John W. McCormack, Majority Leader Congressman Robert L. Doughton, N. C. Chairman, Ways and Means Committee of House of Representatives Congressman Jere Cooper, Tenn. Congressman John D. Dingell, Mich. Congressman Wilbur D. Mills, Ark. Congressman Noble J. Gregory, Ky. Congressman A. Sidney Camp, Ga. Congressman Walter A. Lynch, New York Congressman Aime J. Forand, R. I. Congressman Cecil R. King, California Congressman Thomas J. O'Brien, Ill. Congressman J. M. Combs, Texas Congressman Hale Boggs, La. Congressman John A. Carroll, Colorado Congressman Stephen M. Young, Ohio (Honorable Charles Murphy) (The President invited them down to discuss Social Security Legislation. These are only the Democratic Members of the Ways and Means Committee of House) | ||
| Congressman Francis E. Walter, Pa. (Called Mr. Connelly early last week to ask for this) | ||
| Honorable William Preston Lane, Jr., Governor of Maryland Mr. Frank Bane, Secretary of the Governors Conference (Governor Lane asked Mr. Connelly to arrange this as they to discuss Governors' Conference) | ||
| Congressman Melvin Price, Illinois (Called Mr. Connelly last week to ask for this) | ||
| (Honorable Mon Wallgren) | ||
| H. E. Senor Guillermo Belt, the Cuban Ambassador (Is retiring and wishes to say "goodbye" before leaving for Habana tomorrow) | ||
| Senator Richard B. Russell, Ga. (Phoned Mr. Connelly last week to ask for this) | ||
| The Secretary of the Treasury [John W. Snyder] | ||
| Dr. Uel Lamkin | ||
| (Left for Andrews Field, where the President attended Air Show) | ||
| The Vice President [Alben W. Barkley] Speaker Sam Rayburn Senator Scott Lucas, Ill. Congressman John W. McCormack, Mass. (This meeting of Big Four postponed Monday as Alben W. Barkley and Lucas both out of town Monday) | ||
| (Mr. Dutch Bergman) | ||
| Honorable Nelson Rockefeller, National Chairman, National Brotherhood Week Dr. Everett Clinchy, President of National Conference of Jews and Christians (This arranged by Mr. Eben Ayers. They are coming to report to the President on plans for Brotherhood Week) | ||
| General Frank T. Hines, former Chief of Veterans Administration (Asked Mr. Matthew Connelly last week to arrange this) | ||
| Vice Admiral William W. Smith, Chairman, U. S. Maritime Commission (Phoned Mr. Matthew Connelly last week to ask for this) | ||
| Major General Philip B. Fleming, Federal Works Administrator Mr. W. E. Reynolds, of Public Buildings (Mr. Lorenzo Winslow, White House Architect) (Honorable John R. Steelman) Following Members of Subcommittee on Public Grounds and Buildings of the Committee on Public Works: Of House of Representatives: Congressman Charles A. Buckley, N. Y. Congressman Clifford Davis, Tenn. Congressman James W. Trimble, Ark. Congressman John A. Blatnik, Minn. Congressman Tom Pickett, Texas, Congressman Henderson Lanham, Ga. Congressman Chester A. Chesney, Ill. Congressman T. Vincent Quinn, N. Y. Congressman Homer D. Angell, Oregon Congressman J. Harry McGregor, Ohio Congressman Paul Cunningham, Iowa Congressman James C. Auchincloss, N. J. Congressman Gordon L. McDonough, Calif. Congressman J. Glenn Beall, Md. The Following Senators were also present: Senator Spessard L. Holland, Florida Senator Virgil Chyman, Kentucky Senator Harry P. Cain, Washington (The President asked them to come in to discuss White House reconstruction) | ||
| Mr. Walter Gibson and Mrs. Gibson - Mr. Gibson is Supreme Governor, Loyal Order of Moose (The President promised Senator Kilgore he would see Mr. Gibson, when Kilgore called earlier in week.) | ||
| Honorable Thomas B. McCabe, Chairman, Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System (Asked Mr. Matthew Connelly to arrange this) | ||
| (Mr. David Noyes) | ||
| (Lunch) | ||
| (The Secretary of Defense [James Forrestal]) (Honorable Frank Pace, Director, Bureau of the Budget) (Honorable Clark Clifford) (They brought along assistants who had worked on the New Unification Bill, met in the Cabinet Room, off-the- record) | ||
| Off-the-record meeting in the President's Study in the Blair House: (Honorable Alben Barkley) (Honorable Dean Acheson) (Honorable James Forrestal) (Honorable Charles Sawyer) (Honorable Thomas B. McCabe) (Honorable John W. Snyder) (Mr. George Harrison) (Mr. John Holmes) (Mr. Dwight Palmer) (Mr. S. Clay Williams) (Mr. Mark A. Brown) (Mr. D. Earl Puckett) | ||
| [Public Papers: Letter to the President of the Senate Transmitting Appropriation Estimate for White House Repairs] | ||
| (Mr. Joe Healey) (Off the record) | ||
| (Mr. David Noyes) | ||
| (General Arthur Wilson) (General Harry Vaughan) | ||
| Honorable Raymond M. Foley, Administrator, Housing and Home Finance Agency (Mr. Matthew Connelly called him yesterday and told him the President wanted to see him) | ||
| (Mr. Charles F. Curry, of Kansas City) (Off the record) | ||
| Congressman William Lemke, Minn. Congressman Hardin Peterson, Fla, Chairman of subcommittee of Public Lands Committee Congressman Wesley A. D'Ewart, Mont. Public Lands Com. Congressman Mike Mansfield, Mont. Congressman Fred Marshall, Minn. Public Lands Com. Congressman Usher L. Burdick, N. Dak. Congressman John R. Murdock, Ariz. Senator Milton R. Young, N. Dakota Senator William Langer, N. Dakota Mr. Harry Polk, President of Natl. Reclamation Ass'n. Mr. Stanley O'Connor (Congressman Lemke asked Mr. Matthew Connelly to arrange this so that they might extend to the President the invitation of the Governor of North Dakota, to the President, to participate in the dedication of Theodore Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota, in June.) | ||
| Honorable Paul G. Hoffman, Administrator, Economic Cooperation Administrator (Asked Mr. Matthew Connelly to arrange this) | ||
| Mr. Paul Comly French, Executive Director of CARE (Presented to the President a caricature sculpture of the President done by a Greek-Austrian sculptor. This was done by a man named Christos Diatsintos, a Greek- born artist residing in Vienna.) | ||
| The Secretary of Agriculture [Charles F. Brannan] Mr. Murray Lincoln, head of Ohio Farm Bureau (Requested by Secretary Brannan) | ||
| (Mr. C. R. Smith, Chairman of Board, American Air Lines.) (Off the record) | ||
| Honorable Oscar Ewing, Administrator, Federal Security Agency Mr. Albert Lasker (Mr. Oscar Ewing asked Mr. Matthew Connelly to set up so that Lasker might talk to the President about Health Conference) | ||
| The Secretary of State [Dean G. Acheson] (Usual Thursday appointment) | ||
| (Lunch) | ||
| (The Secretary of Commerce [Charles Sawyer]) | ||
| Press and Radio Conference [Public Papers] | ||
| After Press Conference: Mr. Myron Blalock Mr. J. S. Abercrombie Mr. Ernest Thompson Ralph McCollough Mr. Jack Blalock | ||
| (Mr. Jim Sauter) | ||
| (The Secretary of State [Dean G. Acheson]) | ||
| Cabinet [Meeting] (All present. In addition, there was also present the Secretary of the Army, the Secretary of the Navy and the Secretary of the Air Force) | ||
| (The Secretary of the Army [Kenneth C. Royall]) (Stayed after Cabinet) | ||
| (The Secretary of Labor [Maurice J. Tobin]) | ||
| Dr. Frederick Brown Harris, Chaplain of the Senate (Asked Mr. Connelly to arrange, stating he has important matter to take up with the President) | ||
| Congressman Ken Rogan, Texas (Asked Mr. Connelly for this) | ||
| (Mr. Spyros Skouras) (Off the record - just returned from Turkey and Greece and would like to talk to the President about his trip) | ||
| Dr. Edwin G. Nourse, Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers (Phoned Mr. Connelly on Monday to ask for this) | ||
| (Mr. Hugh Fulton) (Honorable Mon Wallgren) Off the record | ||
| (Mr. Irving Pflaum, Foreign Editor, Chicago Sun Times (Off the record) | ||
| (Lunch) | ||
| The President received the National and Departmental Officers of the Veterans of Foreign Wars: Thomas E. Anderson M. A. Armijo Mr. Othe F. Beaudoin Mr. Lyall T. Boggs Mr. Robert K. Bell Mr. Leroy S. Bendheim Mr. Paul A. Benning Mr. A. B. Bowyer Mr. Ray H. Brannaman Mr. Ernest Burns Mr. Charles B. Buscher Mr. Raymond Chase Mr. Sidney A. Childress Mr. Ivan E. Cook Mr. Thomas A. Duggan Mr. Herbert N. Evans Mr. Carl Frady Douglas W. Laechel Mr. Jacob A. Latona Mr. Elmer A. Oenhart Mr. Clyde A. Lewis Mr. Wallis E. Lispenard Mr. Raymond M. Loose Emilio F. Marino Mr. Max J. Matz Mr. Vere McCarty Mr. Marshall O. Mitchell Mr. Bert Mitchell Mr. Harry Mort Mr. Thomas H. Nelson Mr. John J. Nulty Mr. Joseph M. O'Neill Mr. J. Alan Pike, Mr. C. F. Pope Mr. O. C. Pratz Mr. Charles C. Ralls Mr. John Rees Mr. George E. Ridenour Mr. John J. Shea Mr. Chalres F. Spencer Mr. Robert F. Sutphin Mr. L. G. Taggart Sam G. Thornhill Merton B. Tice Mr. Oscar O. Troyer Mr. Eugene I. VanAntwerp Mr. John P. Waller Mr. Henry L. Warner Mr. Arthur J. Willard Mr. Barney Yanofsky Mr. Robert A. Yothers Mr. L. J. Gaughen Mr. Tullis M. Godwin Mr. R. W. Gosnell Mr. W. R. Griffin Mr. Adrian J. Grobsmith Mr. LeRoy L. Hall Mr. Willis O. Hall Mr. R. B. Handy Mr. James N. Hardin Mr. H. V. Hartman Mr. H. N. Hensley Mr. Harold J. Hines Mr. O. G. Johnson Mr. W. H. Jolly Mr. John W. Jones Mr. J. E. Joyce Mr. Omar B. Ketchum Mr. Alvin F. Kime Mr. J. Rufus Klawans Mr. James S. Keel | ||
| [Public Papers: Remarks to Officers of the Veterans of Foreign Wars] | ||
| Honorable Frank Pace, Director, Bureau of Budget | ||
| (Senator J. Howard McGrath, R. I.) | ||
| The Secretary of the Treasury [John W. Snyder] | ||
| [Public Papers: Statement by the President Reactivating the United Service Organizations] | ||
| (Mr. David Noyes) | ||
| (The President motored home of Mr. George Allen at Wardman Park Hotel, where he spent evening with friends) | ||
| The President left the Blair House for Walter Reed Hospital, where he visited Secretary Charles Ross.) | ||
| (Returned to Blair House.) | ||
| Executive Orders: [10039 AUTHORIZING THE CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION TO CONFER A COMPETITIVE STATUS UPON MISS WINIFRED R. DONNELLON] | ||
| Executive Orders: [10040 AMENDMENT OF EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 9999, (1) SUSPENDING CERTAIN STATUTORY PROVISIONS RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT IN THE CANAL ZONE] | ||
| [Public Papers: Special Message to the Congress Transmitting Bill Extending the Institute of Inter-American Affairs] | ||
| (The President left Blair House for Statler Hotel where he attended breakfast given by Mr. Harry Sunderland, Grand Master of Missouri, Suite 1140, Statler) | ||
| The Vice President [Alben W. Barkley] The Speaker [Sam Rayburn] Senator Scott Lucas, Illinois Congressman John W. McCormack | ||
| The President received a committee from the American Association of English-Jewish Newspapers: Philip Slomovitz, Editor & Publisher, Detroit Jewish News Dr. Alexander Brin, Editor & Publisher, Jewish Advocate, Boston, Mass. Leo Frisch, Publisher, American Jewish World, Minneapolis, Minn. Samuel Neusner, Publisher, Jewish Ledger, Hartford, Conn. Jack Feldman, The Sentinel, Chicago Albert Golomb, Publisher, American Jewish Outlook, Pittsburgh, Pa. Abraham Slabot, Editor, Jewish Ledger, New Orleans, La. Philip Klein, Publisher, Jewish Times, Phila., Pa. Elias Jacobs, Editor & Publisher, Jewish Review, Buffalo, N. Y. Willy Pels, Editor, Southern Israelite, Atlanta, Georgia (This Association holding convention here celebrating 100th anniversary of English-Jewish Press, which was first published in N. Y. in 1849 and was a weekly called "The Asmonean". They have been told the President could not address their convention but would receive a small representation from their group) | ||
| Congressman Carl Albert, Oklahoma Congressman Dixie Gilmer, Oklahoma Congressman George H. Wilson, Oklahoma Congressman Toby Morris, Oklahoma (Cong. Albert phoned Mr. Matthew Connelly to ask if this group of Oklahoma Congressman could call to join in invitation extended by Governor and State Legislature, to the President to come to Lawton, Oklahoma) | ||
| The President received winners of the "Voice of Democracy" Contest: George Morgan, Jr. of Hutchinson, Kansas Kerron Johnson, St. Paul, Minn. Richard Caves, Everett, Ohio Charles Kuralt, Charlotte, N. C. Mr. George Morgan, Sr. (father of George Morgan, Jr. Mr. Francis Campion (teacher of Kerron Johnson) Mrs. Verna Caves (mother of Richard Caves) Mrs. W. H. Kuralt (mother of Charles Kuralt) (Four young men are high school students who won the contest over 250,000 other students by writing & voicing the best 5 minute broadcast scripts on subject "I Speak for Democracy". This is annual event sponsored by U. S. Jnr. Chamber of Commerce, the Nat'l. Ass'n. of Broadcasters and Radio Manufacturers Ass'n. Last year the Pres. received first four winners of contest. Following visit they will have lunch in Senate Restaurant with their home state Senators and visit both Houses of Congress.) | ||
| Brig. General Gordon R. Young, D. C. Engineer Commissioner (Arranged by General Harry Vaughan) | ||
| The Postmaster General [Jesse M. Donaldson] (Asked Mr. Matthew Connelly to arrange this) | ||
| Senator Walter F. George, Georgia (Mr. Matthew Connelly, at the President's direction, asked the Senator to come down) | ||
| The Secretary of State [Dean G. Acheson] (Usual Monday appointment) | ||
| (CABINET LUNCHEON - Agriculture away and Commerce away. The Vice President [Alben Barkley] and Secretary James Forrestal not sure on Saturday) | ||
| (The Secretary of Labor [Maurice J. Tobin]) (Mr. Michael Joseph Calvin) (OFF RECORD - arranged at suggestion of Don Dawson) | ||
| Hon Harold L. Ickes, former Secretary of the Interior Mr. Irving Brant (Mr. Ickes phoned last Friday to ask if he might call on the President today and bring along Mr. Brant, to discuss with the President the forestry situation in Wyoming) | ||
| (Honorable Kenneth Royall) (Honorable Wm. H. Draper, Jr.) (Secretary Kenneth C. Royall wants to bring in Under Sec. Draper to say goodbye to the President - Sec. Draper has resigned) | ||
| (George Washington's Birthday) | ||
| The President came to office and worked on mail. | ||
| The President returned to Blair House | ||
| The President left Blair House for Army-Navy Club in Virginia where he attended dinner in honor of General Harry Vaughan, tendered by Reserve Officers Association. The President made brief speech. | ||
| [Public Papers: Remarks at a Dinner in Honor of General Vaughan Given by the Reserve Officers Association] | ||
| (Mr. Ernest Durig - sculptor) | ||
| Honorable James Bruce, U. S. Ambassador to Argentina (One half hour) | ||
| Senator John L. McClellan, Arkansas (Mr. Connelly, at the President's direction, asked the Senator to come down) | ||
| Honorable E. L. Bartlett, delegate from Alaska (To present to the President a flag sent to Delegate Bartlett by Alaska Territorial Federation of Labor. This was done as result of action taken at its recent annual convention. It is American flag with 50 stars, which our flag will contain if the President's recommendation for adding Alaska and Hawaii to Union is followed. Want picture taken) | ||
| Dr. and Mrs. Clarence R. Decker |