Daily Appointments of Harry S. Truman
April 03, 1950
President Harry S. Truman's appointment calendar covers the dates from April 12, 1945 to January 20, 1953. Please select a date within that range.
| [Public Papers: Letter to Gordon Gray Regarding His Appointment as Special Assistant to the President] | ||
| [Public Papers: Letter to Senator Tydings Again Refusing To Disclose Confidential Information on Employee Loyalty] | ||
| [Public Papers: Special Message to the Congress Upon Approving Bill Relating to Cotton and Peanut Acreage Allotments and Marketing Quotas] | ||
| [Log of President Truman's Trip: Eighth Visit to Key West, Florida] | ||
| [Log of President Truman's Trip: Eighth Visit to Key West, Florida] | ||
| [Log of President Truman's Trip: Eighth Visit to Key West, Florida] | ||
| [Public Papers: Special Message to the Congress on the Unemployment Insurance System] | ||
| [Log of President Truman's Trip: Eighth Visit to Key West, Florida] | ||
| [Log of President Truman's Trip: Eighth Visit to Key West, Florida] | ||
| [Log of President Truman's Trip: Eighth Visit to Key West, Florida] | ||
| [Log of President Truman's Trip: Eighth Visit to Key West, Florida] | ||
| Executive Orders: [10120 CREATING AN EMERGENCY BOARD TO INVESTIGATE A DISPUTE BETWEEN THE CARRIERS REPRESENTED BY THE EASTERN CARRIERS' CONFERENCE COMMITTEE, THE WESTERN CARRIERS' CONFERENCE COMMITTEE, AND THE SOUTHEASTERN CARRIERS' CONFERENCE COMMITTEE, AND CERTAIN OF THEIR EMPL] | ||
| The Vice President [Alben W. Barkley] Senator Scott Lucas, Illinois (Speaker [Sam Rayburn] and Congressman McCormack were out of town) | ||
| Staff Meeting | ||
| Honorable Ellis Arnall, President, Society of Independent Motion Picture Producers Mr. Samuel Goldwyn (Governor Arnall wired Mr. Connelly to ask for this appointment. Said Mr. Goldwyn would be leaving for Europe very soon.) | ||
| The Secretary of Commerce [Charles Sawyer] (Called Mr. Connelly last week to ask for this appointment) | ||
| The Secretary of Defense [Louis Johnson] (Usual weekly appointment) | ||
| (Lunch) | ||
| Senator Charles M. Tobey, N. H. | ||
| (Honorable Mon Wallgren) | ||
| The Secretary of State [Dean G. Acheson] | ||
| The Secretary of the Treasury [John W. Snyder] | ||
| (Honorable Clark Clifford) | ||
| Executive Orders: [10121 TRANSFERRING TO THE TERRITORY OF HAWAII TITLE TO CERTAIN PUBLIC LAND NEEDED FOR OPERATION OF THE HONOLULU AIRPORT] | ||
| (The Secretary of Defense [Louis Johnson]) (Honorable Gordon Gray) (To present the President with a gift for him and Mrs. Truman on this, the occasion of the President's fifth anniversary in Office.) | ||
| Mr. Clark Griffith (Present the President with his annual Baseball Pass) | ||
| Senator Harley M. Kilgore, W. Va. (Called Mr. Connelly and asked for this) | ||
| Mrs. India Edwards (Called last week to say she would like to see the President as soon as possible after his return from Key West). | ||
| Senator Homer Ferguson, Michigan Dr. Alexander G. Ruthven, President of the University of Michigan (Senator Ferguson asked Mr. Connelly if he might bring Dr. Ruthven in to pay his respects to the President.) | ||
| Mr. George Killion, President, American President Lines, Ltd. (Wrote to Mr. Connelly in March, asking if he might call on the President while in Washington) | ||
| Honorable W. Stuart Symington, Secretary of the Air Force (Called Mr. Connelly last week to ask for this) | ||
| The President received the members of Civilian Components Policy Board: (General Renfrow made this request by stating they were here for their monthly meeting: Major General Julius O. Adler Honorable Karl Bendetsen Major General Victor E. Bertrandias Colonel C. H. Cox William T. Faricy Brig. General Luke W. Finley Lt. General Leonard T. Gerow Major General Norman E. Henrickson Brig. General Thomas O. Hardin Brig. General Leo M. Kreber Hon. Dan A. Kimball Brig. General Hugh M. Milton Rear Admiral I. M. McQuiston Colonel Melvin J. Maas Brig. General John P. McConnell Captain George Parkinson Brig. General Oliver H. Stout Hon. Harold C. Stuart Rear Admiral Frank Watkins Brig. General Errol M. Zistel Hon. John F. Floberg Mr. James J. Kearney Col. Alva L. Fenn Capt. Claudius G. Pendill Edwin Burgess Clayton Burwell | ||
| Honorable Frank Pace, Secretary of the Army Honorable Frederick Lawton, Asst. Director, Bureau of the Budget (Mr. Pace requested appointment) | ||
| (Lunch) | ||
| (The President and Mrs. Truman left Blair House for the National Airport, where they welcomes H. E. the President of Chile and Senora de Gonzales Videla.) | ||
| Public Papers: Remarks of Welcome to the President of Chile at the Washington National Airport] | ||
| The President and Mrs. Truman were hosts at a dinner for the President of Chile and Senora de Gonzales Videla.) | ||
| (Senator Millard Tydings) (The Chief Justice [Fred Vinson]) (Honorable Clark Clifford) | ||
| Press and Radio Conference [Public Papers: ] (Honorable Paul Aiken after the Conference) | ||
| (The Attorney General [J. Howard McGrath]) | ||
| The President received the Members of the United States National Commission for United Nations Educational Commission for United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization: Asst. Secy of State Edward W. Barrett | ||
| The President received the Members of the United States National Commission for United Nations Educational Commission for United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization: Asst. Secy of State Edward W. Barrett Barclay Acheson~Ellis Arnall Paul D. Bagwell~Jaime Benitez Keith E. Berry~Senator William Benton Karl W. Bigelow~Livingston L. Blair Sleam Brochardt~Detlev W. Bronk Erwin D. Canham~William C. Carr Ben M. Cherrington~Wayne Coy Nelson, H. Cruikshank~Edgar Dale Mrs. Harvey N. Davis~E. L. DeGolyer Henry Grattan Doyle~Frederick S. Dunn Clarence A. Dykstra~George H. Edgell Milton S. Eisenhower~Luther H. Evans David E. Finley~Robert M. Gates Miss Rosamond Gilder~Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein Willard E. Goslin~Howard Hanson Ross G. Harrison~Mrs. John E. Hayes Mrs. Charles E. Heming~Msgr. Frederick G. Hochwalt Ralph E. Himstead~Ernest M. Howell B. W. Huebach~Rees H. Hughes Herbert C. Hunsaker~Charles S. Johnson Rev. F. Ernest Johnson~Eric Johnston Waldo G. Leland~Mrs. Kathleen Lardie Howland H. Sargent~Charles A. Thomson Rayboard W. Logan~Milton E. Lord Mrs. Anne O'Hare McCormick~Raymond F. McCoy Earl J. McGrath~Raymond F. McCoy Miss Kathryn McHale~Richard P. McKeon C. J. McLanahan~Cong. Mike Mansfield James Marshall~Roscoe C. Martin Charles E. Odegaard~Thomas G. Pullen, Jr. Hubert H. Race~Frederick D. G. Ribble Daniel Catton Rich~Rabbi Wm. F. Rosenblum Mrs. Henry Potter Russell~Stanley H. Ruttenberg J. T. Sanders~Mrs. Raymond Sayre C. A. Scott~Miss K. Frances Scott Harlow Shapley~George N. Shuster Lawrence M. C. Smith~Miss Maycie K. Southall Sen. Margaret Chase Smith~ George S. Stevenson~Alexander J. Stoddard George D. Stoddard~Donald C. Stone P. G. Stromberg~Davidson Taylor Merle Antony Tuve~Stanley D. Tylman Mrs. Pearl A. Wanamaker~Glenway Wescott Robert L. West~Alexander Wetmore Howard E. Wilson~M. L. Wilson Mrs. Louise Leonard Wright~George F. Zook | ||
| [Public Papers: Remarks to Members of the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO] | ||
| Honorable Myron Taylor) (Requested this appointment) | ||
| Honorable Pearl [Perle] Mesta, U. S. Minister to Luxembourg | ||
| (Lunch) | ||
| Honorable Paul Hoffman, Administer, E. C. A. | ||
| (Honorable Jim Finnegan) | ||
| The Secretary of State [Dean G. Acheson] The President of Chile Mr. Horacio Walker, Foreign Minister Honorable Ed. G. Miller, Assistant Secretary of State (acted as interpreter) | ||
| Executive Orders: [10122 REGULATIONS GOVERNING PAYMENT OF DISABILITY RETIREMENT PAY, HOSPITALIZATION, AND RE-EXAMINATION OF MEMBERS AND FORMER MEMBERS OF THE UNIFORMED SERVICES] | ||
| Cabinet [Meeting] (Mr. Whitney for Commerce; all others present, including Hon. Averell Harriman, who stayed afterwards.) | ||
| (Staff Meeting) | ||
| (Mr. Dexter Perry of Independence, Missouri) | ||
| Congressman Brent Spence, Kentucky (Called Mr. Connelly early in the week to ask for this appointment) | ||
| Judge James M. Douglas, Supreme Court of Missouri Judge Lawrence M. Hyde, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Missouri Honorable Clark Clifford (This arranged at request of Judge Caskie Collet. They wish to talk to the President about a meeting of the American Bar Association in Washington this September). | ||
| The Attorney General [J. Howard McGrath] Countess Jadwiga Pulaski (This arranged at request of the Attorney General. Countess Pulaski will present to the President on behalf of her father, Francis Pulaski who is ill, a painting by John Lewis Brown, representing the death of General Pulaski in the Battle of Savannah. This is for the White House Collection. Countess Pulaski and her father are Polish Nationals, self-exiled, living in Paris.) | ||
| Congressman Ray J. Madden, Indiana and following group from the National Federation of Catholic Students Reverend Joseph E. Schieder Miss Paula Sue Burns Mr. William Dodds Mr. Herb Ybarra Mr. John W. Lynch (This arranged at the request of Congressman Madden. The Seventh National Congress of Federation meeting here and the Congressman wished to present them to the President) | ||
| (Lunch) | ||
| Mr. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. (Wrote to the President that he would be here and hoped he could come in for a talk.) | ||
| (Mr. Fred Bowman) | ||
| The President and Mrs. Truman were guests at a dinner at the Shoreham Hotel given in their honor by H. E. the President of Chile and Senora de Gonzalez Videla.) | ||
| (The President and Mrs. Truman accompanied by the President of Chile and his wife attended reception at the Pan American Union.) | ||
| [Public Papers: Veto of Bill To Amend the Natural Gas Act of 1938] | ||
| (Staff Meeting) | ||
| Honorable Leon H. Keyserling, Acting Chairman, Council of Economic Advisors Honorable John D. Clark, Member (One half hour -- to present their report.) | ||
| (Honorable Lowell Mason) | ||
| Honorable Carlton Skinner, Governor of Guam Mr. Frank Leon Guerrero Mr. Antonio B. Won Pat (Arranged at the request of the Secretary of the Interior [Oscar L. Chapman]) | ||
| The Secretary of Agriculture [Charles F. Brannan] (Requested this at Cabinet last Friday) | ||
| H. E. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, the Ambassador of India (Has just been reappointed by the new Government and asked for appointment) | ||
| Mr. Franklin E. Reagan, of St. Louis, Mo. (Wrote Mr. Matthew Connelly he planned to be here at this time and hoped he might see the President) | ||
| H. E. John Joseph Heane, the Ambassador of Ireland (Newly appointed) | ||
| (Congressman Clarence Cannon, Mo.) | ||
| (Lunch) (Cabinet luncheon -- Webb for State; Vice President [Alben Barkley] and Maurice J. Tobin absent.) | ||
| Honorable Sumner T. Pike, Acting Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission Hon. Gordon E. Dean, Member Hon. Henry D. Smyth, Member (Mr. Charles Murphy asked them to come over and see the President.) Honorable Carroll L. Wilson, General Manager | ||
| (Ambassador James Bruce) | ||
| Honorable Harold L. Ickes, former Secretary of Interior (Requested appointment) | ||
| (Honorable Thomas McCabe, Federal Reserve) (Honorable Harry MacDonald) (The Secretary of the Treasury [John W. Snyder]) | ||
| [Public Papers: Statement by the President on the Importance of Maintaining a Bipartisan Foreign Policy | ||
| Senator Scott, Lucas, Illinois The Speaker [Sam Rayburn] Congressman John W. McCormack, Massachusetts (The Vice President [Alben W. Barkley] was unable to come to this meeting.) | ||
| (Mayor Edward K. Delaney of St. Paul, Minnesota) | ||
| Senator Styles Bridges, New Hampshire The Secretary of State [Dean G. Acheson] | ||
| Honorable Harley Hise, Chairman, R. F. C. (Requested appointment) | ||
| Honorable Oscar R. Ewing, Administrator, Federal Security Agency | ||
| The Secretary of Defense [Louis Johnson] Honorable Frank Pace (Usual weekly appointment) | ||
| (Lunch) | ||
| The President and Mrs. Truman attended the opening Baseball Game at Griffith Stadium. | ||
| [Public Papers: Letter to the Speaker on the Plight of Greek Children Abducted by Communist Guerrilla Forces] | ||
| [Public Papers: Statement by the President Upon Signing Bill for the Aid of the Navajo and Hopi Indian Tribes] | ||
| (Staff Meeting) | ||
| The Secretary of Agriculture [Charles F. Brannan] Speaker Sam Rayburn Congressman John W. McCormack, Mass. Congressman Harold J. Cooley, N. C. Congressman Stephen, Ga. (Congressman McCormack, after talking with Congressman Cooley, suggested this conference to discuss agricultural policy.) | ||
| Mr. Julius B. Gay, Potentate of Almas Temple Mr. Herbert Friede, Chairman of Shrine Circus Management Mr. David Herman Mr. Howard P. Foley, Director of Circus (Asked for this to present the President with passes to the Ninth Annual Shrine Circus, produced by Almas Temple.) | ||
| Senator Kenneth McKellar, Tennessee Mr. H. C. McKellar | ||
| Honorable John E. Peurifoy, Deputy Under Secretary of State Honorable H. Graham Morison, Assistant Attorney General Honorable Philip M. Kaiser, Assistant Secretary of Labor Honorale Eugene M. Zuckert, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force Honorable Archibald S. Alexander, Assistant Secretary of the Army (Honorable Donald Dawson) (Arranged by Mr. Dawson. To discuss with the President the work which is objective of this Committee, i.e., formulation of plan by which there can be built up "catalogue" of people available for Presidential appointment). | ||
| General J. Lawton Collins, Chief of Staff, U.S. Army (One half hour, to report on trip to Middle East) | ||
| Miss Nancy Jo Nolan (aged 4 1/2 yrs.) Mr. Omar B. Ketchum, National Legislative Director, Veterans of Foreign Wars Mr. and Mrs. Charles Adams, Managers of National Home VFW Dr. Georgia Leffingwell, Director of Buddy Poppy publicity (This orphan child from V. F. W. National Home at Eaton Rapids, Michigan, will present the President with the first Buddy Poppy, opening national drive for 1950.) | ||
| (Lunch) | ||
| Honorable William M. Boyle (Commander Arthur X. Elrod.) | ||
| Honorable Jonathan Daniels (Requested appointment.) | ||
| Honorable Frederic, Lawton, Director, Bureau of the Budget (Honorable Frank Pace) (Mr. Lawton asked for this, stating he needed to see the President for 15 minutes sometime before meeting tomorrow of Security Council.) | ||
| (Dr. Forsyth, dentist) |