Daily Appointments of Harry S. Truman

January 09, 1952

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.

1:05 pm	January 09, 1952	(No afternoon appointments)
7:55 pm	January 09, 1952	AT THE BLAIR HOUSE:
8:00 pm	January 09, 1952	(Mr. William Hillman) (Mr. David Noyes) (Jack Romagna) OFF THE RECORD
7:00 am	January 10, 1952	[Public Papers: Special Message to the Senate Transmitting Protocol to the North Atlantic Treaty on the Accession of Greece and Turkey]
8:00 am	January 10, 1952	(General Omar N. Bradley, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff) OFF THE RECORD
9:45 am	January 10, 1952	(Honorable John W. Snyder, the Secretary of the Treasury) OFF THE RECORD
10:00 am	January 10, 1952	(Pre Press)
10:30 am	January 10, 1952	Press & Radio Conference [Public Papers]
10:55 am	January 10, 1952	(Admiral William D. Leahy) OFF THE RECORD
11:00 am	January 10, 1952	Dr. Raymond B. Allen was sworn in as Director of the Psychological Strategy Board in the Fish Room. The following were present: ALLEN, Dr. Raymond B. BALMER, Brig. Gen. Jesmond D., Joint Chiefs of Staff BARNES, Mr. C. Tracy, Deputy Director, PSB BARRETT, Mr. Edward W., Assistant Secretary of State CARROLL, Mr. Wallace, Assistant Director for Planning COOPER, Mr. Joseph D., Executive Director, Salary Stabilization Board COMPTON, Mr. Wilson DULLES, Mr. Allen, Deputy Director of Central Intelligence FOSTER, Honorable William C., Deputy Secretary of Defense GODEL, Mr. William, Intelligence Officer, PSB GRAY, Mr. Gordon, President, University of North Carolina JOHNSON, Mr. Charles E., Deputy Executive Office, PSB JOHNSTON, Mr. Eric, President of the Motion Pictures Assn. of America, Inc. MACGRUDER, Brig. Gen. John A., Department of Defense McCARTHY, Col. Charles W., Executive Officer, PSB MORGAN, Mr. George, Asst. Director for Special Projects PHILBIN, Lt. Col. Tobias, Special Assistant to the Director, PSB SHERMAN, Mr. John, Director, Office of Coordination, PSB SMITH, General Walter B., Director of Central Intelligence TAYLOR, Mr. Edmund L., Asst. Director of Plans & Policy, PSB TAYLOR, Mr. George L. (Staff) Followed above ceremony.
12:00 pm	January 10, 1952	Senator Blair Moody, Michigan (Asked for this latter part of December)
12:15 pm	January 10, 1952	Captain William L. Bird, Chaplain, USA (Wrote Mr. Matthew Connelly that he would be here attending Army Chaplain's Conference at Pentagon and hoped he might have opportunity of seeing the President. Said his family had been friends of the President for more than twenty years.)
1:00 pm	January 10, 1952	(LUNCH)
3:00 pm	January 10, 1952	Honorable Gordon Gray (Wrote Mr. Matthew Connelly that when last saw the President did not have chance to discuss Psychological Strategy Board problems as had intended, and hoped he might come in again) (After Mr. Gordon Gray left, the President "dropped in" to the Cabinet Room for work on the Economic Message.)
3:30 pm	January 10, 1952	(Colonel Edward Felker) (Came to see Mr. Matthew Connelly and saw the President Off the Record.)
3:45 pm	January 10, 1952	H.E. Joaquin M. Elizalde, Ambassador of the Philippines (Retiring as Ambassador and returning home to be Secretary for Foreign Affairs; asked, through Protocol, to come in to say "goodbye".)
3:55 pm	January 10, 1952	(Honorable Maurice Tobin, Secretary of Labor) OFF THE RECORD
4:00 pm	January 10, 1952	(Mr. Edward F. Neild, of Shreveport, Louisiana) (Honorable George Elsey) (Honorable George Allen) (Mr. Dewey Somdal, Mr. Neild's partner) (David Lloyd also present) OFF THE RECORD
7:55 pm	January 10, 1952	AT THE BLAIR HOUSE
8:00 pm	January 10, 1952	(Mr. William Hillman) (Mr. David Noyes) (Jack Romagna)
9:25 am	January 11, 1952	(The President left Executive Office for Departmental Auditorium to view Civil Defense Exhibit. He was accompanied by Mr. Joseph Short, General Harry Vaughan, General Robert Landry, Admiral Robert Dennison, Mr. William Hassett, Mr. Donald Dawson, Mr. Lay, Mr. Perlmeter, Mr. Roger Tubby and Mr. David Stowe)
10:05 am	January 11, 1952	(Staff)
10:45 am	January 11, 1952	(General W. Bedell Smith) (Admiral Sidney Souers) (Mr. James Lay, Executive Secretary, National Security Council) OFF THE RECORD
11:00 am	January 11, 1952	Cabinet [Meeting] (All present)
12:00 pm	January 11, 1952	Senator Harley M. Kilgore, West Virginia (Called Mr. Matthew Connelly sometime ago to ask for this)
12:15 pm	January 11, 1952	Mr. George Leary, Democratic National Committee (Asked Mr. Matthew Connelly to arrange this)
12:30 pm	January 11, 1952	The President received the State and Territorial Civil Defense Directors and their Assistants Barbey, Adm. D. E., Director, Washington Baumann, W. H., Director, Vermont Bennett, James M., Asst. Director, Louisiana Black, Ewell C., Deputy Director, S. Carolina Bisbee, Brig. Gen. Spaulding, Director, Maine Bisset, Vice Adm. Andrew G., Director, New Hampshire Caldwell, Gov. Millard, FCDA Administrator Chapman, Col. John W., Director (attend. indefinite)N. Mexico Cobb, Wm. B., Director, Hawaii Cretors, Frederick T., Director, Indiana Crockett, James J., Director, Alaska Dawley, Lester W., Director, Mississippi DeChant, John, Dir. of Public Affairs, FCDA Digman, Thos. D., Deputy Director, New Jersey Dozier, Maj. Gen. Jos. C., Director, S. Carolina Dreyfuss, Leonard, Director, New Jersey Dutton, Col. D. L., Asst. to Director, Delaware Edwards, Brig. Gen. Heber L., Director, N. Dakota Edwards, Stanley, Deputy Director, Wyoming Ewing, Sherley, Deputy Director, Maryland Fondahl, John E., Director, D. C. Fowler, C. E., Deputy Director, Iowa Fox, Gen. Charles R., Director, W. Virginia Franson, Col. Paul, Asst. to Director, Alabama Gallagher, H. R., Dir. of Field Administrators, FCDA Garrett, Col. James M., Director, Alabama Gerstell, Richard, Director, Pennsylvania Gillette, Edw., Director, Nebraska Hall, Col. F. F., Asst. to Director, Delaware Hall, Standish, Director, Kansas Hammond, Ralph W., Director, Missouri Harmond, R. P., Director, S. Dakota Hayes, Jack, Director, Oregon Hesketh, Brig, Gen. Wm., Director, Connecticut Huebner, Lt. Gen. C. R., Director, New York Homer, Maj. Gen. John L., Director, Illinois Howie, Col. R. G., Director, Florida Hurley, Jos. J., Legal Advisor to Director, Massachusetts Jones, E. Z., Director, N. Carolina Larsen, Lt. Gen. Henry L., Director, Colorado Lee, Col. D. Preston, Director, Delaward Lindsay, Jesse S., Adj. Gen. for Kentucky, Kentucky McGee, Carl D., Assistant Director, Oklahoma McGill, Wm. L., Director, Texas McGreevey, John J., Executive to Director, Rhode Island McIntosh, David G., Director, Maryland McKinney, H. A., Director (Attend indefinite)Montana Manship, Douglas L., Director, Louisiana Maitland, Lester J., Director, Michigan Marlin, Edwin K., Deputy Director, Indiana Martin, Maj. Carl C., Director, Arkansas Martin, Brig. Gen. Thomas L., Deputy Director, Tennessee Mazan, W. L., Deputy Director, Vermont Miller, Col. E. B., Director, Minnesota Mills, W. L. Representing Idaho CD, Idaho Murphy, Brig. Gen. James A., Director, Rhode Island Olson, Ralph J., Maj. Gen., Director, Wisconsin Owen, George B., Director, Arizona Poarch, Glenn D., Director, Oklahoma Riefkohl, Otto, Acting Director, Puerto Rico Robertson, Gen. W. M., Director, California Sessions, Col. Alvin, Deputy Director, Utah Sites, Lt. Col., Edgar M., Deputy Director, W. Virginia Vandiver, Gen. S. E., Director, Georgia Warner, Wm. E., Director, Ohio Wadsworth, J. J., Deputy Administrator, FCDA Wheelright, Thomas S., Asst. Coordinator of CD, Virginia Wolfe, Col. Chester W., Asst. To Director, Ohio Wyse, J. H., Coordinator of CD, Virginia
1:00 pm	January 11, 1952	(LUNCH)
3:00 pm	January 11, 1952	(Honorable Oscar Chapman, the Secretary of the Interior) (Honorable Frank Pace, the Secretary of the Army) (Honorable Philip Perlman, the Solicitor General) (Arranged at the request of Secretary Oscar Chapman; discuss the Roanoke Rapids Case - a power case.) OFF THE RECORD
3:30 pm	January 11, 1952	(Honorable Frank McKinney, Chairman, Democratic National Committee) OFF THE RECORD
4:00 pm	January 11, 1952	Honorable Frederick Lawton, Director, Bureau of the Budget
5:25 pm	January 11, 1952	(Admiral Sidney Souers) OFF THE RECORD
8:00 am	January 12, 1952	[Public Papers: Statement by the President on Civil Defense]
9:15 am	January 12, 1952	(Mr. Eben Ayers) OFF THE RECORD
9:25 am	January 12, 1952	(Mr. Hopkins) OFF THE RECORD
9:30 am	January 12, 1952	(Mr. Charles Murphy) OFF THE RECORD
9:45 am	January 12, 1952	(Dr. John R. Steelman) OFF THE RECORD
10:00 am	January 12, 1952	(Honorable Justin Miller) OFF THE RECORD
10:15 am	January 12, 1952	(Admiral Sidney Souers; Admiral Robert Dennison) OFF THE RECORD
10:30 am	January 12, 1952	(Honorable John Carroll; Mr. Charles Murphy) OFF THE RECORD
10:45 am	January 12, 1952	(Mr. Joseph Short; Mr. Roger Tubby) OFF THE RECORD
11:30 am	January 12, 1952	(Mr. Donald Dawson) OFF THE RECORD
12:00 pm	January 12, 1952	(The President left the Executive Office for the Union Station to meet the train of Miss Margaret Truman.) OFF THE RECORD
1:00 pm	January 12, 1952	(LUNCH)
7:30 pm	January 12, 1952	(The President left Blair House for the home of Mr. James Barnes, where he attended a birthday party in honor of Speaker Sam Rayburn of the House of Representatives.) OFF THE RECORD
8:00 am	January 13, 1952	OFF THE RECORD
8:00 am	January 13, 1952	(The President spent the day at the Blair House with his family.)
8:00 am	January 14, 1952	[Public Papers: Message to the Congress Transmitting First Report on Inclusion of Escape Clauses in Trade Agreements]
9:00 am	January 14, 1952	[Public Papers: Special Message to the Congress Transmitting Reorganization Plan 1 of 1952: Bureau of Internal Revenue]
9:01 am	January 14, 1952	[Public Papers: Special Message to the Congress on Synthetic Rubber]
10:00 am	January 14, 1952	BIG FOUR Honorable Alben Barkley, the Vice President Honorable Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the House Senator Ernest W. McFarland, of Arizona Congressman John W. McCormack. of Massachusetts
11:00 am	January 14, 1952	(Staff)
12:00 pm	January 14, 1952	Honorable Robert Ramspeck, Chairman, Civil Service Commission (Arranged by Mr. Dawson)
12:15 pm	January 14, 1952	Honorable Paul A. Walker, Commissioner, Federal Communications Commission (Called Mr. Connelly and requested this.)
12:30 pm	January 14, 1952	(Mr. Blevins Davis) (Dr. Clarence Decker) OFF THE RECORD
12:45 pm	January 14, 1952	(Honorable Gordon Dean, Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission) (Honorable William C. Foster, Deputy Secretary of Defense) (Mr. James Lay, Executive Secretary, National Security Council) OFF THE RECORD
12:55 pm	January 14, 1952	(Miss Carlene Roberts, Vice President, American Airlines) (Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Drake) (Mr. Connelly brought them in for a "handshake" with the President.) OFF THE RECORD
1:00 pm	January 14, 1952	(LUNCH)
3:00 pm	January 14, 1952	Senator Hubert H. Humphrey, Minnesota (Called Mr. Connelly last week and asked for this.)
3:15 pm	January 14, 1952	Congressman Michael A. Feighan, Ohio (Called Mr. Connelly and asked for this.)
3:30 pm	January 14, 1952	Senator Lyndon B. Johnson, Texas (On December 28, 1951 the Senator was advised by Mr. Connelly that the President would like to see him at this time. One-half hour)
4:00 pm	January 14, 1952	Honorable India Edwards, Chairman, Women's Division, Democratic National Committee
8:00 am	January 15, 1952	[Public Papers: Message to the Congress Transmitting the First Annual Report of the National Science Foundation]
9:00 am	January 15, 1952	(Mr. William Hillman) (Mr. David Noyes) OFF THE RECORD
9:45 am	January 15, 1952	Congressman Eugene J. Keogh, New York (Called Mr. Connelly last week and asked for this.)
10:00 am	January 15, 1952	(Staff)
11:00 am	January 15, 1952	(Honorable George Garrett, General Chairman, Metropolitan Area, Red Cross Campaign (D. C. and adjoining Maryland and Virginia counties) Honorable William McChesney Martin, Chairman, Government Unit of Red Cross Campaign Mr. Randolph Bishop (Mr. Garrett asked Mr. Connelly if they might call on the President at his convenience.)
11:15 am	January 15, 1952	Mr. J. O. Talley, President, National Rehabilitation Association Mr. E. B. Whitten, Executive Director Mr. Howard L. Benshoff, Vice President for Disabled Mr. R. C. Thompson (Mr. Talley wrote to the President early in December asking if he and his associates might call and discuss the difficulties confronting the state rehabilitation agencies in their efforts to serve the handicapped.)
11:30 am	January 15, 1952	Congressman Abraham J. Multer, New York Congressman Clinton D. McKinnon, California (Congressman Multer called Mr. Connelly January 2nd and asked for this, stating he had just returned from trip through South American and wanted to come in and discuss this trip with the President, as well as the question of tin.)
11:45 am	January 15, 1952	Congressman Michael J. Kirwan, Ohio (Called Mr. Connelly January 3rd and asked for an early appointment with the President.)
12:00 pm	January 15, 1952	Senator Estes Kefauver, Tennessee (Called Mr. Connelly January 4th and asked for this.)
12:15 pm	January 15, 1952	Honorable Harry N. Rosenfield, Commissioner, Displaced Persons Commission (Just returned from Europe and wanted to deliver report to the President.)
12:30 pm	January 15, 1952	Honorable Robert A. Lovett, the Secretary of Defense (Usual Tuesday appointment.)
1:00 pm	January 15, 1952	(LUNCH)
3:00 pm	January 15, 1952	Admiral Ross T. McIntire (In East and asked if he might call on the President before returning to California.)
3:15 pm	January 15, 1952	(Honorable Melvin D. Hildreth, Executive Vice Chairman, National Capital Sesquicentennial Commission) OFF THE RECORD (Saw the President Off Record and briefed him on meeting to follow at 3:30 p.m. with entire Commission.)
3:30 pm	January 15, 1952	The members of the National Capital Sesquicentennial Commission met with the President at his direction; thought it best way to resolve differences of opinion with respect to continuance of "Faith of Our Fathers". The following were present: Hon. Melvin D. Hildreth, Executive Vice Chairman Senator Spessard L. Holland, Florida Senator Matthew M. Neely, West Virginia Senator Margaret Chase Smith, Maine Congressman Charles E. Bennett, Florida Senator Kenneth McKellar, Tennessee Honorable Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the House Mr. John Russell Young, President, Board of Commissioners Mr. Robert V. Fleming, Riggs National Bank Mr. Joseph C. McGarraghy Mr. Robert Woods Bliss Mrs. Philip L. Graham
4:30 pm	January 15, 1952	(The President "dropped in" on a tea at the Blair House given by Mrs. Truman for veterans at Walter Reed Army Hospital and Bethesda Naval Hospital.) OFF THE RECORD
8:00 pm	January 15, 1952	AT THE BLAIR HOUSE: (Mr. William Hillman) (Mr. David Noyes) (Mr. Jack Romagna) OFF THE RECORD
8:00 am	January 16, 1952	[Public Papers: Statement by the President on the 69th Anniversary of the Civil Service System]
8:01 am	January 16, 1952	[Public Papers: Annual Message to the Congress: The President's Economic Report]
9:45 am	January 16, 1952	(General Josephy T. McNarney, USA) OFF THE RECORD (Arranged by General Robert Landry)
10:00 am	January 16, 1952	(Staff)
11:00 am	January 16, 1952	(Honorable John L. Sullivan) OFF THE RECORD (Lower West Door)
11:15 am	January 16, 1952	Congressman Robert Crosser, Ohio (Called Mr. Matthew Connelly last week and asked for this.)
11:30 am	January 16, 1952	Mr. Carl E. Bostrom, President of Chicago Board of Trade (At request of Louis Johnson, who wrote Mr. Matthew Connelly that Mr. Bostrom said at time was elected he was going to work diligently to attempt to bring about better relationship between Chicago Board of Trade and Administration. Mr. Louis Johnson says Mr. Bostrom has done just that, and now wanted to pay respects to the President.)
11:45 am	January 16, 1952	Honorable Oscar R. Ewing, Administrator, Federal Security Agency (Asked Mr. Matthew Connelly to arrange this.)
12:00 pm	January 16, 1952	Honorable John W. Gibson, Chairman, Displaced Persons Commission Mr. Albert Bosch, Secretary, National Council, Steuben Society, N.Y. Mr. Bernhard H. Hofman, National Security, American Relief for Germany, Inc., Milwaukee; also a member of the Displaced Persons Commission's Advisory Committee on Resettlement Mr. John Kikel, Ridgewood, New York Mr. Nick Pesch, President, American Aid Societies, Chicago, Illinois Mr. Peter Wagner, President, United Friends of Needy and Displaced People of Yugoslavia, Inc. Mr. Adolf Schauer, Ridgewood, New York (John Gibson asked Mr. Matthew Connelly sometime ago if he might bring in this group of German-Americans to discuss D.P. Program.)
12:15 pm	January 16, 1952	Honorable Francis Biddle (Called Mr. Matthew Connelly last week and asked for this.)
12:30 pm	January 16, 1952	Congressman Reva Beck Bosone, Utah (Called Mr. Matthew Connelly last week and asked for this.)
12:45 pm	January 16, 1952	Senator Clinton Anderson, New Mexico (Called Mr. Matthew Connelly and asked for this.)
1:00 pm	January 16, 1952	(LUNCH)
3:00 pm	January 16, 1952	Mr. James A. Campbell, National President, American Federation of Government Employees Mr. Hal J. Miller, Editor, the Government Standard (Presented to the President portrait of Senator George Pendleton, author of Civil Service Act, symbolizing the integrity and efficiency of the 2,500,000 employees of the Federal Service. Press release issued on this subject.)
3:15 pm	January 16, 1952	(Honorable Frank Pace, the Secretary of the Army) OFF THE RECORD (Lower West Door)
3:30 pm	January 16, 1952	(National Security Council) OFF THE RECORD
9:45 am	January 17, 1952	Senator Dennis Chavez, New Mexico (Called late Wednesday, January 16th)
9:55 am	January 17, 1952	(Senator Thomas C. Hennings, Jr.) (Mr. Donald Dawson) (Mr. Donald Dawson brought the Senator in.) OFF THE RECORD
10:00 am	January 17, 1952	(Staff)
10:55 am	January 17, 1952	(Mr. James McCahey, of Chicago) OFF THE RECORD
11:00 am	January 17, 1952	Honorable F. Joseph Donohue, D. C. Commissioner Brig. Gen. Bernard L. Robinson, U.S.A. Engineer Commissioner (Commissioner Donohue called Mr. Matthew Connelly last week and asked if they might come in and talk to the President about Home Rule for the District.)