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Daily Appointments of Harry S. Truman

June 06, 1950

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Hon. Sherman Minton, Associate Judge, Supreme Court (Called Mr. Matthew Connelly yesterday to say he was going home and would like to come in before he left)
The President left for Shoreham Hotel where he attended Banquet of the Better Business Bureau.
[Public Papers: Address at a Dinner of the Better Business Bureaus]
(Cong. John A. McGuire, Conn.) (Father George Reilly) (Mr. Peter Reilly)
(Staff meeting)
Cong. Graham A. Barden, N.C. (Mr. Matthew Connelly called him, at direction of the Presi- dent and asked him come in for half hour talk)
Dr. F. D. Patterson, President, Tuskegee Institute Congressman William Dawson Mr. Horace Suddeth, President, National Negro Business League Dr. J. E. Walker, President, Universal Life Insurance Company of Memphis, Tenn. (Dr. Patterson asked for this as they wish invite the President to Golden Anniversary Celebration of National Negro Business League, founded by Booker T. Washington)
Hon. Frederick Lawton, Director, Bureau of the Budget
H.E. Senor Don Augusto Dillon, the Ambassador of Ecuador (Asked, thru Mr. Woodward, to say "goodbye" as is relinquishing his duties in Washington and returning to Ecuador; also will present the President with Panama hat)
Hon. Frank P. Corrigan, Adviser on Latin American Affairs to Hon. Warren R. Austin (Asked for this thru Mr. Stanley Woodward)
Senator Elbert D. Thomas, Utah (Called Mr. Matthew Connelly and asked for this)
(Sen. Wayne Morse, Oregon) (Asked Mr. Matthew Connelly to arrange this five minutes OFF RECORD)
(Mrs. H. E. Strong) (Formerly Emma Wales, old friend, will come OFF RECORD)
(LUNCH - downstairs in Executive Office)
(Mr. and Mrs. John Bauermeister)
(Harry Schwimmer)
Hon. William M. Boyle
The Secretary of Defense [Louis Johnson] Secretary Thomas K. Finletter [Secretary of the Air Force] General Omar Bradley Admiral Sherman General Collins General Norstad (Secretary Louis Johnson brought them along for usual weekly appointment)
(The President left for the Roosevelt Hotel where he spoke to the Ninety-first Annual National Convention of the Augustana-Lutheran Church)
[Public Papers: Remarks at the 91st Annual National Convention of the Augustana Lutheran Church]
(The President had following speech-writers to dinner at Blair House:) (Secretary Charles Ross) (Secretary William Hassett) (Mr. Charles Murphy) (Mr. David Bell) (Mr. David Lloyd) (Mr. Ken Hechler) (Mr. George Elsey) (Mr. Stephen Spingarn)
(The President left Blair House for Cosmos Club where he had breakfast with members of his staff)
(Staff Meeting)
(Leo Parker of Kansas City)
Senator Robert S. Kerr, Oklahoma (Called Mr. Connelly last week to ask for this)
The Secretary of the Treasury [John W. Snyder]
Mr. Carter Barron Mr. Douglas Smith Mr. and Mrs. Daniel O'Brien Mr. Max Weinberg Mr. Peter Smith
Senator Francis J. Myers, Pennsylvania Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney, Wyoming Hon. David Lawrence, Mayor of Pittsburgh, Pa. (Senator Myers asked Mr. Connelly to arrange this; later Senator O'Mahoney asked Senator Myers if he might come along as he wished to discuss same matter. None of them said what they wished to see the President about)
The Secretary of State [Dean G. Acheson] (Usual Thursday appointment)
(LUNCH)
(Merl Young)
Averell Harriman
The President left St. Louis, Missouri.
CDST - The President left St. Louis by train for Columbia, Missouri arriving there at 9:15 a.m., CST. Following persons boarded the Train at St. Louis and accompanied him to Columbia: St. Louis to Columbia, Missouri - Roy Harper Columbia to Mexico, Missouri - Alice Moss Faris and Robert White Columbia to St. Louis, Missouri Honorable Emory Allison Governor Forrest Smith Mr. Tom Van Zandt Honorable Roy Harper Honorable John Nangle Honorable John H. Hendren Dr. J. F. Jolley Mr. Willson Gilmore
CST - The President participated in the graduation exercises at the University of Missouri and received an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws.) [Public Papers: Commencement Address at the University of Missouri]
CST - The President and party lunched at the University
CST - The President departed Columbia, Missouri
CST - Back-platform appearance at Mexico, Missouri
[Public Papers: Rear Platform and Other Informal Remarks in Missouri]
CST - President and party left train and motored to Grant Farm for a reception which opened activities of 35th Division Reunion.
CST - At close of reception at Grant Farm, President and party motored to St. Louis to the Jefferson Hotel, where he and his party spent the night.
CSDT - President received Senator Emory Allison in his suite at Jefferson Hotel.
CDST - President attended Ball and other entertainment of the 35th Division Reunion at the Convention Auditorium in St. Louis.
CDST - President breakfasted with Members of Battery "D"
[Public Papers: Informal Remarks in St. Louis in Connection With the 30th Reunion of the 35th Division Association]
CDST - The President attended the meeting of the 35th Division Executive Committee.
to 12:00 Noon, CDST - The President attended a reception and buffet luncheon at City Hall, St. Louis.
CDST - The President attended Memorial Services at Memorial Plaza.
CDST - The President reviewed the 35th Division Parade. At conclusion of parade President officially opened the exhibit rooms of the Mississippi River Parkway Planning Commission in the old Court House Building.
CDST - President made major address at Jefferson National Expansion Memorial on River Front. [Public Papers: Address in St. Louis at the Site of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial]
CDST - President left St. Louis by plane for Washington, D.C.
EDST - Arrived in Washington, D.C.
The Vice President [Alben W. Barkley] Sen. Scott Lucas, Ill. The Speaker [Sam Rayburn] Cong. John W. McCormack, Mass.
(Staff Meeting)
(Hon. Robert Patterson)
Myron Taylor
The President received the Radio Farm Directors as follows: Hon. Charles F. Brannan Mr. Keith Himebaugh, Department of Agriculture Mr. Kenneth M. Gapen, Assistant Director of Information Radio and Television Service, Washington, D.C. Mr. James H. McCormick, Assistant Director in Charge of Publications and Exhibits, Dept. of Agric., Wash., D.C. Mr. Phil Alampi, Radio Farm Director, NYC Mr. Frank F. Atwood, Radio Farm Director, Hartford, Conn. Mr. John B. Babcock, Assistant Radio Farm Director, Cincinnati, O. Mr. Roy Battles, Pres., National Assoc. Radio Farm Directors, Cincinnati, O. Mr. Layne Beaty, Radio Farm Director, Radio Station WBAP, Fort Worth, Mr. Milton E. Bliss, Radio Farm Director, Radio Station WHA, Madison, Wisc. Mr. Al Bond, Extension Radio Specialist, Washington State College, Pullman, Wash. Mr. M. H. Brightman, Dairy Industry Committee, Radio, Wash., D.C. Mr. Jesse J. Buffum, Radio Farm Director, Radion Station WEEI, Boston. Mr. Francis Byrnes, Extension Specialist in television, Ohio State University, Columbus, O. Mr. Charles R. Carroll, Agricultural Radio Advertising, Chicago, Ill. Mr. Jack Creel, Radio Farm Director, Radio Station KFYO, Lubbock, Tex. Mr. John Douglass, Australian Broadcasting Commission, Sydney, Aus. Mr. Carl Duckett, Radio Farm Director, Radio Station WBOB, Gilax, Va. Mr. Walter Durham, Radio Farm Director, Radio Station WMC, Memphis, Tenn. Mr. Charles E. Eshbach, Extension Consumer Radio & Television, Boston, Mass. Mr. Paul L. Fisher, Radio Farm Director, Radio Station WMRC, Green- ville, S. Car. Mr. Gladys R. Foris, Oklahoma A & M College, Stillwater, Okla. Mr. Merl L. Galusha, Radio Station, WGY, Schenectady, N.Y. Mr. Cliff Gray, Radio Station WSPA, Spartanburg, S. Car. Mr. Larry Haeg, Radio Farm Director, Radio Station WCCO, Minneapolis, Minn. Mr. Dix Harper, Radio Station WIQU, Kokomo, Indiana Mr. Roger L. Harrison, Radio Station WBZ, Boston, Mass. Mr. Charles A. Herndon, Department of Agriculture, Wash., D.C. Mr. Don Huckle, Radio Station, WGR, Buffalo, N.Y. Mr. J.S. Huling, Radio Station WRAK, Williamsport, Pa. Mr. Ted M. Hyman, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, Va. Mr. C. W. Jackson, Radio Station KCMO, K.C., Mo. Mr. Cullen Johnson, Radio Station WRNL, Richmond, Va. Mr. Lou Kaiser, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. Mr. Richard L. Kathe, Radio Station WGAR, Cleveland, O. Mr. Amos Kirby, Radio Station WCAU, Phila., Pa. Mr. Donald Lerch, Agricultural Chemicals Radio, Wash., D.C. Mr. Clement B. Lewis, New England Radio News Service, Boston, Mass. Mr. Donnafred Logsdon, Vice President, National Farm Network, NYC Mr. Claude Mahoney, Columbia Broadcasting System, Wash., D.C. Mr. Homer Martz, Radio Station KDKA, Pittsburgh, Pa. Mr. John McDonald, Radio Station, WSM, Nashville, Tenn. Mr. Joe McQuary, Radio Station WWVA, Wheeling, W.Va. Mr. Henry Miller, Voice of America, NYC Mr. Robert C. Miller, Radio Station WRFD, Worthington, O. Mr. Jay Modell, Eastern Broadcasting System, NYC Mr. Syd Neufeld, Eastern Broadcasting System, NYC Mr. Thomas Noone, Radio and Television Service, Dept. of Agriculture, Wash., D.C. Mr. Lymna Noordhoff, University of Illinois, Urbana, Ill. Mr. Elvon Orme, Radion Station KSL, Salt Lake City, Utah. Mr. Tom J. Page, Radio Station WNBC, New York City. Mr. Robert E. Parker, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Conn. Mr. Don Peach, Radio Station KOA, Denver, Colorado. Mr. Will Peigelbeck, Radio Station WNJR, Newark, N.J. Mrs. Elizabeth S. Pitt, Dept. of Agric., Wash., D.C. Mr. Herb Plambeck, Radio Station WHO, Des Moines, Iowa. Miss Dorothy Rapp, Radio Station WCOM, Sistersville, W.Va. Mr. Murrell Rapp, Radio Station WCOM, Sistersville, W.Va. Dana D. Reynolds, Economic Cooperation Administration, Wash, D.C. Mr. Grant Salisbury, Radio Station WKAR, East Lansing, Mich. Mr. Harold J. Schmitz, Radio Station KFEQ, St. Joseph, Mo. Mr. Sam Schneider, Radio Station KVOO, Tulsa, Oklahoma Mr. Paul D. Seabrook, Clemson College, Clemson, S. Car. Mr. Geradl L. Seaman, National Farm and Home Hour, Milwaukee, Wisc. Mr. Clair Shadwell, Radio Station, WKIX, Columbia, S. Car. Miss Carolyn Shaver, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Md. Miss Alice Skelsi, Department of Agriculture, Wash., D.C. Mr. Ed Slusarczyk, Radio Station WIBX, Utica, N.Y. Mr. R. L. Smith, Allis-Chalmer Mfg. Co., Milwaukee, Wisc. Mr. Waynard Speece, Dept. of Agric., Wash., D.C. Mr. John Stewart, University of Utah, Logan, Utah Mr. Elton Tait, Pennsylvania State College, State College, Pa. Mr. Dave Thompson, Grocery Manufacturers of American, NYC Mr. Joseph Tonkin, Dept. of Agric., Wash., D.C. Mr. Hal Totten, Radio Station WGN, Chicago, Ill. Mr. George Van Horn, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Mass. Mr. Paul Visser, NBC, Chicago, Ill. Mr. William D. Ward, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. Mr. Lowell Watts, Radio Station KLZ, Denver, Colo. Mr. Marshall Wells, Radio Station WJR, Detroit, Mich. Mr. Robert B. White, ABC, Chicago, Ill. Mr. Charles Worcester, Radio Station WMT, Cedar Rapids, Iowa Mr. Bill Zipf, Radio Station WBNS, Columbus, Ohio (The President received the Radio Farm Directors at request of Secretary Brannan, "They have become powerful influence in rural life. They are on the air daily, or more often, reporting and discussing farm legislation, Department of Agriculture programs, and activities of local agricultural agencies and farmers. Moreover, about 25 percent represent stations owned by newspapers. The group plans to spend a day with Secretary Brannan and other Department of Agriculture people, a half day with the Congressional agricultural committees, and a half day with the farm organizations. We feel that their visit here is an important one from our standpoint, and that of agriculture generally.")
[Public Papers: Remarks to the National Association of Radio Farm Directors]
The Secretary of State [Dean G. Acheson] (Usual Monday appointment)
(CABINET LUNCHEON - Vice President [Alben Barkley] absent, Treasury, Defense, and Attorney General absent. Amb. W. Averell Harriman and Robert Patterson present)
Hon. W. Averell Harriman
Hon. Robert A. Lovett, former Under Secretary of State (At the President's direction, Mr. Matthew Connelly wired Mr. Robert Lovett June 8th, asking if he could come down for this talk. Half hour)
Speaker Sam Rayburn Hon. Tom Miller, Mayor of Austin
(Honorable Mon C. Wallgren)
Staff Meeting
(Honorable Edwin Ed Pauley) (Mr. Poncet Davis)
Senator Paul H. Douglas, Illinois Senator Estes Kefauver, Tennessee Senator Lister Hill, Alabama Senator John J. Sparkman, Alabama Senator Hubert H. Humphrey, Minnesota Senator Herbert H. Lehman, New York Senator Warren G. Magnuson, Washington Congressman Wright Patman, Texas Congressman John A. Carroll, Colorado Congressman Hale Boggs, Louisiana Congressman Raymond W. Karst, Missouri Congressman Joe L. Evins, Tennessee Congressman Hugh Mitchell, Washington (Mr. Biffle 'phoned Mr. Connelly last week to say that Senator Douglas and others wished to see the President to urge him to veto the Basing Point Bill.)
Honorable Joseph Robbie, State Chairman, South Dakota Mr. John Engle (Mr. Boyle asked Mr. Connelly to arrange, stating Mr. Robbie wanted to see the President at this time, and that his duties as State Chairman will be concluded with election of a new Chairman at the State Convention of July 10th)
Honorable George Radcliffe, former Senator from Maryland (Called Mr. Connelly last week, from Baltimore, to ask for this appointment)
Honorable Henry F. Grady, American Ambassador to Greece (In Department on consultation and asked through the State Department to pay respects to the President.)
(Mrs. Albert Lasker)
H.E. E. N. Van Kleffens, the Ambassador of the Netherlands (Asked for this through the State Department. To pay respects and say "goodbye" before returning to his home in the Netherlands)
The President received the members of the Fourth Annual Institute for Teachers of Government and Admininstration, sponsored by the American University of Washington, D.C.: Professor Daisy Parker Professor Henry J. Schmandt Professor Josephine M. Pisani Professor Anne Whittaker Dr. Lucretia L. Ilsley Professor Elisabeth D. Knapp Professor Geraldine F. Masters Dr. Ralph J. D. Braibanti Dr. Mona Fletcher Professor Charles G. Hefner Lt. Col. Jerry M. Sage Lt. George A. Garman Dr. Malcolm B. Parsons Professor Marvin Tableman Dr. Robert L. Gill Mr. Beverly Finkle Mr. Slater Isenberg Mrs. Anna D. Haldeman Lowell H. Hattery Dr. Mary Bradshaw Miss Susie Q. Bryant Dr. and Mrs. Harold F. Gosnell
Honorable Stephen T. Early, the Under Secretary of Defense (Came in the Secretary's absence)
(Lunch)
The President's Advisory Committee on Management Improvement: Thomas A. Morgan Lawrence Appley Vincent Burke Oscar L. Chapman Gordon Clapp Herbert Emmerich Edward Mason Otto Nelson Frank Pace, Jr. James L. Palmer Marcellus C. Sheild James E. Webb Frederick J. Lawton Charles B. Stauffacher
Honorable Joseph J. O'Connell, Chairman, Civil Aeronautics Board (Asked Mr. Connelly for this sometime ago.)
Honorable William O. Douglas, Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States
(Mr. Max Lowenthal) (Off the record)
(Mr. Charles Vandevander)
[Public Papers: White House Statement Announcing the Establishment of the Arkansas-White-Red River Basins Inter-Agency Committee]
(Staff Meeting)
Congressman Walter B. Huber, Ohio Commander Lawrence Kocinski, Polish Legion of Amercian Veterans Benjamin T. Anuskewicz, Chairman & Legislative Officer George L. Mark, Executive Chairman Congressman James V. Buckley, Illinois Congressman Chester A. Chesney, Illinois Congressman A. N. Sadlak, Connecticut Leo D. Michaloski, Washington Representative of Polish American Congress and the United Press of America (Congressman Huber asked for this in order that this group may invite the President to address their convention to be held in Akron, Ohio next September.)
(Mr. Stephen F. Thomas of St. Louis)
(Mr. Martin Lewis, of Springfield, Illinois) (Write and asked to see the President, off the record)
Honorable Oscar Ewing, Administrator, Federal Security Agency Mr. Generoso Pope, Jr. Mr. Fortune Pope Mr. Anthony Pope (Mr. Ewing asked if he might bring them and introduce them to the President.)
Marshal of the Royal Air Force, Lord Tedder (Arranged by General Robert Landry)
Senator Milton R. Young, N.D. Congressman Harold C. Hagen, Minnesota Senator Edward J. Thye, Minnesota Senator Hubert Humphrey, Minnesota Senator William Langer, N.D. Congressman Walter H. Judd, Minnesota Congressman Eugene J. McCarthy, Minnesota Congressman Fred Marshall, Minnesota Congressman August H. Andressen, Minnesota Congressman John A. Blatnik, Minnesota Congressman H. Carl Andersen, Minnesota Congressman Joseph P. O'Hara Congressman Roy W. Wier, Minnesota Congressman Usher L. Burdick, N.D. Governor Luther Youngdahl, Minnesota Mr. Wm. Skells, Secretary to Congressman Lemke (Congressman Hagen arranged for this group consisting of Congressional delegation from Minnesota and North Dakota to come in to talk to the President about lack of progress on legislation and assistance to the flood areas in their States.)
Honorable W. Stuart Symington, Chairman, National Security Resources Board (Usual Wednesday appointment, one-half hour)
(Lunch at the Blair House with General George C. Marshall)
Honorable William M. Boyle Mr. Joseph Keenan, A.F. of L.
Honorable Frank Pace, the Secretary of the Army Honorable Earl D. Johnson, Assistant Secretary of the Army (Secretary Pace asked if he might bring his new Assistant in to meet the President.)
(Honorable Frank Pace, Secretary of the Army) (Asked to stay on for an off-the-record talk.)
The Secretary of Commerce [Charles Sawyer]
(The President left for the Naval Gun Factory, where he will go aboard the USS WILLIAMSBURG and cruise overnight to Quantico, Virginia.)
The President and party aboard the USS WILLIAMSBURG, landed at the U.S. Marine Base, Quantico, Virginia
The President witnessed demonstrations of amphibious helicopter landings.
[Public Papers: Remarks at the U.S. Marine Corps Base, Quantico, Virginia]
The President arrived in Washington, D.C.
Executive Orders:  [10131 PROVIDING FOR THE INVESTIGATION OF AND REPORT ON DISPLACED PESONS AND PERSONS OF GERMAN ETHNIC ORIGIN SEEKING ADMISSION INTO THE UNITED STATES]