Daily Appointments of Harry S. Truman
February 03, 1950
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| [Public Papers: Remarks to a Group of Baptist Missionaries] | ||
| Dr. Edward H. Prudan | ||
| The President received the Board of Directors of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Association: Mr. Grant Arnold Mr. Julius H. Barnes Mr. Harry Bullard Mr. Harry Brockwel Mr. F. Hugh Burns Mr. Julius Meltzer Mr. Lewis G. Castle Mr. N. R. Danielian Mr. Harla Hatcher Mr. Foster Winter | ||
| Honorable Stuart Symington, Secretary of the Air Force Mr. and Mrs. Bob Hope (Requested by Secretary Symington) | ||
| The President and Mrs. Truman gave a tea at the Blair House in honor of President of Philippines) | ||
| Executive Orders: [10105 CREATING AN EMERGENCY BOARD TO INVESTIGATE A DISPUTE BETWEEN THE DENVER AND RIO GRANDE WESTERN RAILROAD COMPANY AND CERTAIN OF ITS EMPLOYEES] | ||
| (Staff Meeting) | ||
| (Honorable Frank Pace) (Mr. Elmer Stotts [Staats]) (Mr. Charles Murphy) (Mr. Charles Murphy requested appointment) | ||
| (Honorable Joe Larson) (Mr. Wm. E. Kelly) (Requested appointment) | ||
| H. E. Elpidio Quirino, President of the Philippines (Wished to pay respects to the President before leaving city) The Secretary of State [Dean G. Acheson] H. E. Joaquin M. Elizalde, the Ambassador of the Philippines | ||
| (Admiral Lewis L. Strauss) (Requested appointment) | ||
| (The Secretary of the Treasury [John W. Snyder]) | ||
| (Father Frank P. Rowley) | ||
| (Lunch) | ||
| Left Blair House for Radio Correspondents' dinner at the Statler.) | ||
| Executive Orders: [10106 CREATING A BOARD OF INQUIRY TO REPORT ON A LABOR DISPUTE AFFECTING THE BITUMINOUS COAL INDUSTRY OF THE UNITED STATES] | ||
| The Vice President [Alben W. Barkley] The Speaker of the House [Sam Rayburn] Senator Scott Lucas Congressman John McCormack (Usual Monday meeting for the Big Four) | ||
| (Staff Meeting) | ||
| Congressman Chester C. Gorski (Requested appointment) | ||
| Honorable John McSweeney, Congressman from Ohio (Requested appointment) | ||
| The Secretary of State [Dean G. Acheson] (Usual weekly appointment) | ||
| (Cabinet Luncheon) (Secretary Louis Johnson and the Attorney General [J. Howard McGrath] out of the city; Secretary of the Treasury [John Snyder] and Secretary of the Labor [Maurice Tobin] absent.) | ||
| (Honorable Frank Pace) (Mr. Donald Dawson) (Mr. David Stowe) (Mr. John Steelman) (Requested by Dr. John Steelman to discuss NSRB reorganization) | ||
| Honorable Frank Pace Mr. Elmer Stotts | ||
| (Honorable George Allen) (Mr. Blevins Davis) | ||
| (Mr. Ted Marks) | ||
| Attended dinner in honor of Senator and Mrs. Brien McMahon at the 1925 F Street Club.) | ||
| (Staff Meeting) | ||
| Mr. Harold Jones Mr. James Nolan (Mr. Nolan is Chairman of Dinner Committee for Knights of Columbus Dinner. Mr. Jones of the Post Office Department requested appointment to invite the President to this dinner.) | ||
| Mrs. Herbert Clayborne, head of Gunston Hall Foundation Miss Virginia Livingston Hunt, Regent at Large for Gunston Hall Mr. Thomas W. Streeter (Senator Robertson of Virginia requested appointment. Mrs. Clayborne invited the President to come to Gunston Hall for the formal opening of home of George Mason as a national shrine) | ||
| Honorable James McI. Henderson, Administrator, Philippine Alien Property Administration (In city for two weeks and wants to make report to the President) | ||
| Honorable Avra M. Warren, American Ambasador-designate to Pakistan (Mr. Woodward says Mr. Warren wishes to pay respects before leaving for post at Karachi) | ||
| Honorable Dan Kimball, Under Secretary of the Navy (Called Mr. Connelly) | ||
| Honorable Henry F. Grady | ||
| Honorable Leroy Johnson Mr. Nelson M. Holderman | ||
| (Lunch) | ||
| (General Renfrow) (Mr. David Fleisher) | ||
| (Mr. Ted Marks) | ||
| Executive Orders: [10107 REVOCATION OF EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 8232 OF SEPTEMBER 5, 1939, (1) RELATING TO THE CONTROL OF THE PANAMA CANAL AND THE CANAL ZONE] | ||
| [Public Papers: Statement by the President on Appointing Additional Members of the Committee on Religion and Welfare in the Armed Forces] | ||
| (Staff Meeting) | ||
| The President received a group of 12 Eagle Scouts together with officers of the Boy Scouts of America; Eagle Scout Leslie Burch, Richmond, Mass. Life Scout Patrick Caffery Exployer Robert J. Deruntz Life Scout Walter T. Featherly, Jr. Eagle Scout Robert T. Green Air Explorer Kale Gentry Mr. Armory Houghton Eagle Scout Gerald Mongold Sea Explorer H. E. May, Jr. Eagle Scout Mark Miller Mr. Guy Miller Mr. Howard Patton Eagle Scout Donald Paul Schultz Life Scout Robert P. Sherwood Mr. John L. Smith Dr. Arthur A. Schnuck Mr. Leslie C. Stratton Mr. Frank W. Wozencraft Eagle Scout William D. Well, Jr. | ||
| Honorable John C. Davies, Congressman from New York | ||
| (Mr. John E. Bierwirth, President, National Distillers Products Corporation) (Wrote that he completed series of trips in Middle West, Pacific Coast and Southeast and would like to tell the President about these -- off the record) | ||
| Honorable Harold Ickes Mr. Irving Brant (Called Mr. Matthew Connelly. Mr. Ickes requested apointment) | ||
| (Mr. William Taylor) | ||
| The President received the members of the Executive Committee of the National Association of Postmasters: Arthur H. Allbright John E. Butler, Jr. Mrs. Nell Graves Partick J. Goode Dan L. Gibson Mrs. Frances P. Hudson Mr. Frank J. Horak Mr. Frank R. Harwood Burris C. Jackson Miss Pearl Linville Mr. Algy R. Murphy Chester A. Miller Fergus McRae Raymond V. McNamara Mrs. Ruth Neumann Charles E. Puskar Mr. Raymond V. McNamara Mrs. Thelma G. Shuff Mr. I. A. Smoot Mr. Neal A. Sibley Mr. John E. Trimming Mr. Dewey R. Wilcox | ||
| (Mr. John A. Kennedy, President and Editor, San Diego Journal) (Requested appointment -- off the record) | ||
| Honorable Frank Pace, Director of the Budget (Arranged through Mr. Matthew Connelly) | ||
| Mr. William Batt, Sr. (Arranged by Mr. Charles Murphy) | ||
| (Lunch) | ||
| Mrs. Marie Sheehe, National President, American Legion Auxiliary Mrs. Jeannette Houston) Mr. William McMains (Mrs. Sheehe presented to the President poppy opening American Legion Memorial Poppy Drive. This does not begin until May but Mrs. Sheehe does not feel that she can get back to Washington before May.) | ||
| Honorable William Boyle (Weekly appointment) | ||
| (Mr. Ken Moran, Kansas City, Missouri) | ||
| (Mr. Clark Clifford) | ||
| Executive Orders: [10108 DESIGNATING THE UNITED STATES MISSION TO THE UNITED NATIONS AND PROVIDING FOR ITS DIRECTION AND ADMINISTRATION] | ||
| [Public Papers: Letter to the Vice President Urging a Study of the Land and Water Resources of the New England States and New York] | ||
| (Staff Meeting) | ||
| Honorable Emanuel Cellar, Congressman from New York (Called for appointment) | ||
| Honorable George H. Wilson, Congressman from Oklahoma (Arranged through Colonel Maylon) | ||
| The President received a group of Methodist Ministers: Rev. Thoburn Anderson Rev. Lloyd Barnard Rev. Robert Bruehl Rev. Verner Birch Rev. Clifford Brown Rev. Sidney Bloomquist Rev. Weldon Bradburn Rev. G. W. Courier Rev. Roy Crocker Rev. C. F. Chasteen Rev. Wilbur Childress Rev. Marshall Crapp Rev. Paul Curry Rev. Richard Campbell Rev. Paul DuBois Rev. Earl Dean Rev. Wayne Detrick Mr. Frances Feldman Rev. Jaul Ford Rev. Donald Gibbs Rev. Morrison Galloway Gloria Hughes Rev. James Hagerty Rev. Forrest Hoslingtn Wilbur Hopkins Rev. Ralph Jasper Rev. Kenneth Knox Rev. James Kranz Rev. Russell W. Lambert Rev. Hon. A. Lambert Rev. H.E. Loerch Bishop J.R. Magee Rev. Laster Minion Rev. J. A. Mason Rev. Richard Miller Rev. J. Fred Melvin Carl T. Newcomb Rev. P. O. Nystrand Rev. Clarence Nordling Marlyn Northfelt Mr. Wm. Nelson Rev. Earl Olsen Rev. Howar Oborn Rev. William Osborn Mr. James Odom Rev. Joseph Partridge Rev. Thomas Pender Rev. Dale Pitcher Rev. Herbert Rhodes Rev. Victor Roberts Rev. Carlton Rogers Rev. L. J. Sailor Rev. A. H. Sonins Rev. Harold Sorter Rev. Eugene Stauffer Rev. Leonard Sutton Rev. Loyal Thompson Rev. Claude Temple Rev. David Taylor Rev. John Vandersickle Rev. Eugene Vandeske Rev. Donald Woods Rev. R. J. Weiss Rev. Gilbert Weisner Rev. Merrill Williams Rev. Charles Wagener (This group of Illinois Methodist Ministers are holding Seminar in Washington -- appointment arranged by Senator Lucas) | ||
| Mr. Walter White (Requested appointment) | ||
| Honorable Claude Pepper, Senator from Florida (Requested appointment) | ||
| Honorable Frank Pace, Director of the Budget Honorable Carl R. Gray, Jr., Administrator of Veterans Affairs. | ||
| The Secretary of State [Dean G. Acheson] (Usual weekly appointment) | ||
| (Lunch) | ||
| (Mr. Ted Marks) | ||
| Press and Radio Conference [Public Papers] | ||
| Honorable Gordon Gray | ||
| (Dinner at the Blair House in honor of the Vice President Alben W. Barkley and Mrs. Barkley) | ||
| Executive Orders: [10109 CREATING AN EMERGENCY BOARD TO INVESTIGATE DISPUTES BETWEEN THE TEXAS & PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES, INCLUDING THE FORT WORTH BELT RAILWAY COMPANY AND THE TEXAS PACIFIC-MISSOURI PACIFIC TERMINAL RAILROAD OF NEW ORLEANS, AND CERTAIN OF THE] | ||
| Cabinet [Meeting] (All present except the Secretary of Labor and the Secretary of the Treasury, Under Secretary of Treasury Foley for Treasury) | ||
| (The Secretary of Commerce [Charles Sawyer]) | ||
| (Staff Meeting) | ||
| Mr. Harry Harding, President, Independent Bankers Assn. of 12th Federal Reserve District Mr. Benjamin DuBois Mr. Frank Wozencraft, Secretary, Independent Bankers Assn. Mr. Edwin Manuel (Mr. Harding wrote to Congressman Brent Spence, who is Chairman of the House Banking and Currency Committee, and asked for an opportunity for him and other representatives of Association to talk with the President. Wished to present their views on legislation necessary for continuation of independent banking.) | ||
| Honorable Walter J. Connelly, American Ambassador to Venezuela (Wished to pay respects) | ||
| (Honorable James Bruce) (General John Franklin) (General Franklin is President of the Pennsylvania Railroad and one of the first contributors in the 1948 campaign) | ||
| Honorable Charles Brannan, Secretary of Agriculture Honorable Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the House Senator Elmer Thomas, Oklahoma Congressman Stephen Pace, Georgia Congressman Harold D. Cooley, North Carolina (Arranged by Secretary Brannan to discuss farm legislation) | ||
| (Lunch) | ||
| (Honorable Clark Clifford) | ||
| Honorable Philip Murray, President of C. I. O. Honorable William Green, President of A. F. of L. (Mr. Murray requested appointment to talk about Israel) | ||
| Hon. Richard Nacy (Requested appointment) | ||
| Mr. Russ Stewart, Chicago Sun and Times | ||
| (Mr. David Noyes) | ||
| [Public Papers: Letter to the Attorney General Directing Him To Petition for an Injunction in the Coal Strike] | ||
| Honorable David L. Cole Honorable John T. Dunlop Honorable W. Willard Wirtz Mr. Richard E. Neustadt (This is a Board of Inquiry which the President appointed to report on the coal situation. Dr. John R. Steelman arranged appoinment) | ||
| (Staff Meeting) | ||
| The Secretary of State [Dean G. Acheson] The Under Secretary of State The Secretary of Defense [Louis Johnson] The Secretary of the Army [Gordon Gray] The Secretary of the Navy [Francis P. Matthews] The Secretary of the Air Force [Stuart Symington] General Omar N. Bradley, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff General J. Lawton Collins, Chief of Staff, U. S. Army Admiral Forrest P. Sherman, Chief of Naval Operations General Hoyt S. Vandenberg, Chief of Staff, U. S. Air Force (This appointment arranged by Secretary Stephen Early) | ||
| (The Speaker of the House of Representatives [Sam Rayburn]) (Senator Lyndon Johnson) | ||
| (Luncheon) | ||
| (Dinner with Associate Justice and Mrs. Stanley Reed at their apartment at the Mayflower Hotel.) | ||
| The President and Mrs. Truman attended services at the Lincoln Memorial. Military and Air Aides accompanied the President) | ||
| [Public Papers: Special Message to the Congress Transmitting Report on the Training of Veterans Under the Servicemen's Readjustment Act] | ||
| The Vice President [Alben W. Barkley] The Speaker of the House [Sam Rayburn] Senator Scott Lucas, Illinois Congressman John McCormack, Mass. (Weekly appointment of Big Four) | ||
| (Staff Meeting) | ||
| Honorable Harley Kilgore, Senator from West Virginia Mr. R. H. Bailey Mr. Randolph Halley Mr. Ignatius J. Killeen of Wheeling W. Va. (Requested by the Senator -- Mr. Hailey was formerly with the Truman Committee) | ||
| Mr. Lucien Wulcin, President, the Baldwin Piano Co., Cincinnati, Ohio (President wants to see Mr. Wulcin, Mr. James A. Davidson of New York sent word to Mr. Wulcin that the President wanted to see him.) | ||
| The Under Secretry of State | ||
| (Cabinet Luncheon -- Vice President absent; the Secretary of Agriculture absent; Under Secretary Webb came for State.) | ||
| (Honorable George Luckey) |