Daily Appointments of Harry S. Truman
August 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.
| (Staff Meeting) | ||
| (General Frank Lowe) - OFF THE RECORD | ||
| Mrs. Anna Rosenberg (Requested appointment last week through Mr. Connelly) | ||
| Mr. Jack Kroll, Political Action Committee, CIC | ||
| The President signed H.R. 5990 An Act "To provide for the construction, development, administration, and maintenance of the Baltimore- Washington Parkway in the State of Maryland and its extension into the District of Columbia as a part of the park system of the District of Columbia and its environs by the Secretary of the Interior and other purposes." (The following were present:) Congressman Lansdale G. Sasscer, Maryland Congressman George H. Fallon, Maryland Congressman Edward A. Garmatz, Maryland Congressman William P. Bolton, Maryland Congressman Edward T. Miller, Maryland (R) Congressman J. Glenn Beall, Maryland (R) (Congressman Sasscer asked that a ceremony be held when the President signed the Bill) | ||
| Senator Theodore Francis Green, Rhode Island Senator Edward L. Leahy, Rhode Island (Senator Green asked if he might bring Senator Leahy in to pay respects) | ||
| (Honorable Gael Sullivan) - OFF THE RECORD | ||
| (Mr. Paul Nactman) - OFF THE RECORD | ||
| Honorable Dean G. Acheson, the Secretary of State (Usual Thursday appointment) | ||
| (Lunch) | ||
| (The President sat in on the Security Council) | ||
| Mr. Emmett Scanlon | ||
| Press and Radio Conference [Public Papers] | ||
| Honorable W. Averell Harriman | ||
| (Mr. Jim Finnegan) - OFF THE RECORD | ||
| (Honorable George Allen) - OFF THE RECORD | ||
| Executive Orders: [10147 CREATING AN EMERGENCY BOARD TO INVESTIGATE A DISPUTE BETWEEN THE NEW YORK CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY, LINES EAST OF BUFFALO, AND CERTAIN OF ITS EMPLOYEES] | ||
| (General Omar Bradley) - OFF THE RECORD | ||
| Cabinet Meeting (All present except the Secretary of Commerce away, the Attorney General away, with Peyton Ford representing Justice and Honorable James Webb representing the State Department) | ||
| (Honorable James Webb, Under Secretary of State) (Honorable Charles F. Brannan, Secretary of Agriculture) OFF THE RECORD | ||
| (Staff Meeting) | ||
| Honorable Albert B. Chandler, High Commissioner of Baseball | ||
| Congressman Francis E. Walter, Pennsylvania | ||
| Honorable Samuel Morris, Democratic National Committeeman, Arizona | ||
| (Honorable Maury Maverick) - OFF THE RECORD | ||
| (Lunch) | ||
| (Honorable Wayne Coy) - OFF THE RECORD | ||
| (Honorable Carroll Wilson, General Manager, Atomic Energy Commission) OFF THE RECORD | ||
| (Honorable Gordon Gray) - OFF THE RECORD | ||
| (The President and Mrs. Truman motored to Union Station and met Miss Truman coming in from New York City) | ||
| (The President, Mrs. Truman and Miss Truman left Blair House for Rock Creek Park Amphitheatre, to attend premiere of "Faith of Our Fathers" | ||
| Executive Orders: [10148 DESIGNATION OF CERTAIN OFFICERS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE TO ACT AS SECRETARY OF COMMERCE] | ||
| (General Omar Bradley) - OFF THE RECORD | ||
| (Honorable George Allen) - OFF THE RECORD | ||
| (General Omar Bradley) (General J. Lawton Collins) (General Hoyt S. Vanderberg) (Admiral Forrest P. Sherman) OFF THE RECORD | ||
| (Staff Meeting) | ||
| Congressman Wilbur D. Mills, Arkansas Congressman James W. Trimble, Arkansas (Congressman Mills arranged this with the President when he called last week) | ||
| Senator Harley M. Kilgore, West Virginia (Has been trying to arrange appointment for about ten days) | ||
| Senator Wayne Morse, Oregon (Called Mr. Connelly last week to arrange for this) | ||
| Honorable Joseph J. O'Connell, former Chairman, C.A.B. (Called Mr. Connelly last week to ask for this) | ||
| H.E. Gustave Laraque, the Ambassador of Haiti (Newly appointed, to present credentials) Honorable John Simmons, Chief, Division of Protocol | ||
| Honorable William Boyle | ||
| Honorable James E. Webb, the Under Secretary of State (State Department's usual Monday appointment) | ||
| (Lunch) | ||
| (Mr. Bill Sermon) - OFF THE RECORD | ||
| (Captain Anthony Pollaro) - OFF THE RECORD | ||
| (Honorable Charles Sawyer, the Secretary of Commerce) - 0FF THE RECORD | ||
| (Mr. Ted Marks) - OFF THE RECORD | ||
| Executive Orders: [10149 SUSPENDING THE LIMITATIONS UPON PUNISHMENTS FOR VIOLATIONS OF ARTICLES OF WAR 58, 59, 61, 64, 65, and 86] | ||
| [Public Papers: Special Message to the Congress on the Internal Security of the United States] | ||
| (General Omar N. Bradley) - OFF THE RECORD | ||
| Honorable Alben Barkley, the Vice President Honorable Sam Rayburn, the Speaker Senator Scott Lucas, Illinois Congressman John W. McCormack, Massachusetts (Weekly meeting of the BIG FOUR) | ||
| (Staff Meeting) | ||
| (Senator Lyndon B. Johnson, Texas) - OFF THE RECORD | ||
| Honorable Louis Johnson, the Secretary of Defense (Usual Tuesday appointment) Honorable Stephen T. Early, Under Secretary of Defense Honorable Frank C. Pace, the Secretary of the Army | ||
| (Lunch) | ||
| (Mr. George Killion) - OFF THE RECORD | ||
| (Honorable Oscar L. Chapman, Secretary of the Interior) (Honorable Francis P. Matthews, Secretary of the Navy) (Honorable Carl Skinner, Governor of Guam) OFF THE RECORD | ||
| (Honorable Alfred Schindler) - OFF THE RECORD | ||
| Cabinet Meeting (Under Secretary Webb for State; Under Secretary McCormick for Agriculture; Mr. W. Averell Harriman absent. All others present) | ||
| Honorable W. Averell Harriman | ||
| (General Omar Bradley) - OFF THE RECORD | ||
| (Staff meeting) | ||
| (The President left for Departmental Auditorium, where at 11:00 a.m. he opened 1950 Meeting of the President's Committee on National Employ the Physically Handicapped Week) | ||
| [Public Papers: Remarks to the President's Committee on National Employ the Physically Handicapped Week] | ||
| (The President made recording in Cabinet Room for use of "Voice of America") | ||
| Honorable Stuart Symington, Chairman, National Security Resources Board | ||
| (Lunch) | ||
| (Mr. Sidney Solomon) - OFF THE RECORD | ||
| Honorable Tom Stewart, former Senator from Tennessee Mr. Herbert S. Walters, National Committeeman, Tennessee Mr. Wade Thompson, President, Gas Co., Nashville, Tennessee Mr. Frank Morast, Vice President, National Bank, Chattanooga, Tenn. (Appointment requested through Congressman Frazier of Tennessee to pay respects to the President) | ||
| Honorable Thomas McCabe, Chairman, Board of Governors, Federal Reserve Board | ||
| (Honorable Charles Murphy) (Honorable William Foster, Deputy Administrator, ECA) OFF THE RECORD | ||
| (General Omar N. Bradley) - OFF THE RECORD | ||
| Press & Radio Conference [Public Papers] | ||
| (Honorable Charles Luckman) - OFF THE RECORD | ||
| (Staff Meeting) | ||
| (Honorable Louis Johnson, the Secretary of Defense) (Honorable Stephen T. Early, Deputy Secretary of Defense) (Honorable Francis P. Matthews, the Secretary of the Navy) (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) 0FF THE RECORD | ||
| Mr. Del Webb, of New York Yankees | ||
| Honorable James Mead, Chairman, Federal Trade Commission | ||
| Honorable Dean Acheson, the Secretary of State (Usual Thursday appointment) | ||
| (Mrs. Estelle Fredericks) (Miss Kay Schwartz) OFF THE RECORD | ||
| (Lunch) | ||
| (The President "dropped in" on Meeting of National Security Council in Cabinet Room) | ||
| Honorable Frederick Lawton, Director, Bureau of the Budget | ||
| Honorable James Roosevelt | ||
| Mr. John D. Griffin, Editor and Publisher of New York Enquirer (Presented, on behalf of Interfaith Movement, Inc., a special bronze plaque to the President for what he has done to combat racial and religious prejudice. This organization was started by his father, the late William Griffin in 1937, to combat racial and religious prejudice in business) | ||
| (Congressman Leonard Irving, Missouri) - OFF THE RECORD | ||
| Mr. Russ Stewart, Chicago Sun Times | ||
| (Mr. Oscar Ewing) - OFF THE RECORD | ||
| Executive Orders: [10151 EXEMPTION OF WILLIAM D. HASSETT FROM COMPULSORY RETIREMENT FOR AGE] | ||
| Executive Orders: [10150 CREATING AN EMERGENCY BOARD TO INVESTIGATE DISPUTES BETWEEN THE ATLANTIC & EAST CAROLINA RAILWAY COMPANY AND OTHER CARRIERS, AND CERTAIN OF THEIR EMPLOYEES] | ||
| [Public Papers: Veto of Bill Relating to the Census in South Parkersburg, West Virginia] | ||
| Cabinet Meeting (Under Secretary Clarence McCormick for Agriculture; all others present) | ||
| Mr. Henri L. Warren, of Corpus Christi, Texas (Wrote Mr. Connelly he expected to be here at this time and hoped he might call on the President for a minute) | ||
| (Staff Meeting) | ||
| Congressman Clarence Cannon, Missouri (Mr. Connelly called him and told him the President would like to have him come in) | ||
| General Carl R. Gray, Jr., Administrator of Veterans Affairs (Wrote Mr. Connelly from Wisconsin stating that he would be in Washington at this time and would like to see the President) | ||
| Commander George Craig, American Legion | ||
| Honorable Joseph M. Darst, Mayor of St. Louis, Missouri (Wrote Mr. Connelly last month that he would be here at this time and would like to see the President and discuss some of the problems pertaining to the City of St. Louis) | ||
| (Lunch) |