Daily Appointments of Harry S. Truman
April 24, 1952
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| (Alfred Schindler) OFF THE RECORD | ||
| [Public Papers: Letter to Senator Maybank on Vacation Leave Privileges of Federal Employees] | ||
| [Public Papers: Letter to Senator McKellar on the Need for Restoring Funds for Flood Control] | ||
| (Staff) | ||
| (General W. Bedell Smith, Director, C.I.A.) (Mr. James Lay, Executive Secretary, National Security Council) OFF THE RECORD | ||
| Cabinet [Meeting] (Solicitor General represented Justice; Commerce absent; all others present.) | ||
| Mr. Jack Kroll, C.I.O. (Called Mr. Connelly last week and asked for this; wished to talk to the President about the CIO Convention in July.) | ||
| (Dr. Bruce Forsyth) OFF THE RECORD (Came to see Mr. Connelly and saw the President OFF RECORD) | ||
| The President received the Members of the American Society of International Law at a reception in the White House. (This Organization holding its annual meeting in Washington. It was always tradition for them to meet with the President during the annual session; during war practice discontinued. Two years ago when Senator Thomas of Utah was a vice president of the society, he suggested a renewal of the practice of meeting with the President but as White House under repair and the number would have to be limited, it was thought best to wait until White House finished and have them all come. Organization composed of many prominent practicing international lawyers, together with teachers of international relations from leading colleges and universities. Program this year consisted of such speakers as Secretary Acheson, Ambassador Spender, Justice Jackson, Senator Sparkman and Congressman Vorys.) | ||
| (LUNCH) | ||
| Congressman Carl Vinson, Georgia (Called Mr. Connelly Monday and asked for this.) | ||
| (Honorable Manly Fleischmann, Administrator, N.P.A.) OFF THE RECORD | ||
| (General W. Bedell Smith, Director, C.I.A.) OFF THE RECORD | ||
| (The President and Mrs. Truman attended the 1952 Broadway Revue at 8:30 pm to benefit soldiers, sailors, marines and airmen's clubs at Constitution Hall.) | ||
| Executive Orders: [10349 DECLARING THE COMMISSIONED CORPS OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE TO BE A MILITARY SERVICE AND PRESCRIBING REGULATIONS THEREFOR] | ||
| Executive Orders: [10348 CONTINUING IN FORCE ORDERS AND REGULATIONS RELATING TO BLOCKED PROPERTY] | ||
| (Mr. Charles Murphy) OFF THE RECORD | ||
| (Mr. David Stowe) OFF THE RECORD | ||
| (Mr. Joseph Short) OFF THE RECORD | ||
| (Lt. Colonel and Mrs. A. E. Holland) OFF THE RECORD (Came to see Mr. Connelly and saw the President Off Record.) | ||
| (Mr. Donald Dawson) OFF THE RECORD | ||
| (LUNCH) | ||
| [Public Papers: Letter to C. S. Jones in Response to Questions on the Steel Situation] | ||
| (General Omar N. Bradley, Chairman, Joint Chiefs) AT THE WHITE HOUSE OFF THE RECORD | ||
| (Mr. Charles Murphy) OFF THE RECORD | ||
| (The President and Mrs. Truman left for the Congressional Club and attended a reception in the honor of General and Mrs. Bradley given by Justice and Mrs. Harold Burton.) | ||
| [Public Papers: Statement by the President on the Termination of the State of War With Japan] | ||
| [Public Papers: Statement by the President and Message Upon Appointing Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway Supreme Allied Commander, Europe] | ||
| [Public Papers: Statement by the President Upon Appointing Gen. Mark W. Clark To Succeed General Ridgway] | ||
| Honorable Sam Rayburn, the Speaker of the House Senator Ernest W. McFarland, Arizona Congressman John W. McCormack, Massachusetts (Vice President [Alben W. Barkley] unable to attend BIG FOUR.) | ||
| (Staff) | ||
| (Honorable Charles Sawyer, the Secretary of Commerce.) OFF THE RECORD | ||
| Senator Hubert H. Humphrey, Minnesota (Called Mr. Matthew Connelly last week and asked for this.) | ||
| Honorable William M. Boyle, Jr. (Called Mr. Matthew Connelly last week and asked for this.) | ||
| (LUNCH) | ||
| (Mr. Charles Vandevander) OFF THE RECORD | ||
| (Mr. Duke Shoop) OFF THE RECORD (Mr. Joseph Short brought him in.) | ||
| (The President and Mrs. Truman left the White House for the Capitol Theatre where they attended a performance of the opera "Aida" by the Metropolitan Opera Company.) | ||
| (Staff) | ||
| Mrs. India Edwards (Called Mr. Connelly last week and asked for this.) | ||
| Congressman Robert E. Jones, Jr., Alabama (Called Mr. Connelly last week and asked for this.) | ||
| (Mr. Feltham Watson) OFF THE RECORD | ||
| (Honorable Harry McDonald, Chairman, R.F.C.) OFF THE RECORD | ||
| H. E. Senor Don Rafael de la Colina, the Ambassador of Mexico (Asked, through Protocol, if might come in and give the President - not a formal presentation - an oil portrait of Miguel Hildalgo y Costilla, Father of Mexican Independence; thought the President might like to have for the White House.) | ||
| (LUNCH) | ||
| (Honorable Burton K. Wheeler) OFF THE RECORD (Half hour. Came to see Mr. Connelly) | ||
| (Honorable Frank McKinney, Chairman, Democratic National Committee) (Usual Tuesday appointment; asked for it OFF THE RECORD. Half hour.) | ||
| (Staff) | ||
| Mr. Andre Visson, of Reader's Digest Dr. Barkley Acheson, of Reader's Digest Mr. Joseph Wyatt, of Reader's Digest Mr. Blake Clark, of Reader's Digest Mr. John Farrar, Publisher Mr. Roger W. Straus, Jr., Publisher Mr. William Hillman (Arranged at request of Mr. Hillman. The Reader's Digest representatives will present to the President those volumes of the Digest containing condensation of the book "Mr. President." As the Publishers of the book also wished to present the President with a volume, Mr. Hillman thought it a good idea to combine.) | ||
| Honorable and Mrs. William Divers and two children (He is Chairman of Home Loan Bank Board, and asked if might bring in his family to meet the President.) | ||
| Congressman James G. Polk, Ohio Mr. O. Carson Barklow, Scioto County, Ohio, Engineer Mr. Chester G. Linham, Co-Chairman of Atomic Energy Plant Development Committee of Portsmouth, Ohio Mr. James B. Pugh, President, Chamber of Commerce, Portsmouth, Ohio Mr. Edward L. Glockner, representing Junior Chamber of Commerce of Portsmouth Mr. J. Richardson Thomas, Co-Chairman of Atomic Energy Plant Development Committee, Portsmouth, Ohio (Congressman Polk called sometime ago and asked if he might bring in these Portsmouth, Ohio businessmen to talk to the President re getting new atomic energy plant in Portsmouth.) | ||
| Honorable Eric Johnston (Called Mr. Matthew Connelly yesterday and asked for this.) | ||
| (Honorable Edwin A. Locke, Jr., Representative of U. S. on Advisory Commission of UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in Near East, etc., with rank of Ambassador.) OFF THE RECORD (Asked if could come in Off Record. Came to see Mr. Matthew Connelly who took him in to see the President.) | ||
| Honorable Dewey Anderson, Chairman, Point Four Information Service Conference Committee (Wrote the President that first National Conference on Inter- national Economic and Social Development was great success. In closing it was proposed and voted that Mr. Anderson's Committee continue in existence, ascertain wishes of delegates and report back plan for formation of national citizens organization to promote and support broadened Point Four. Asked if might discuss this with the President.) | ||
| His Excellency Honorable Hume Wrong, the Ambassador of Canada Major General A. E. Walford, Honorary President of Third Divisional Artillery, Montreal, Canada Colonel J. R. Hyde, Commanding Officer (Presented to the President a scroll of membership in officers' mess of the Third Divisional Artillery, which the President sometime ago agreed to accept.) | ||
| (Mr. Douglas Cater, of Reporter Magazine) OFF THE RECORD (Mr. Joseph Short arranged and brought him in Off Record.) | ||
| (LUNCH) | ||
| (Mr. Frank Bourgholtzer) OFF THE RECORD | ||
| Honorable Jack Gorrie, Chairman, N.S.R.B. (Called Mr. Matthew Connelly last week and asked for this.) | ||
| (National Security Council) OFF THE RECORD | ||
| [Public Papers: Special Message to the Congress Transmitting Reorganization Plan 5 of 1952] | ||
| (General Charles Maylon) OFF THE RECORD | ||
| (Admiral William D. Leahy) (Called Mr. Connelly yesterday to ask for this) OFF THE RECORD | ||
| (Staff) | ||
| (Honorable Charles Sawyer, The Secretary of Commerce) (Honorable John R. Steelman, Assistant to the President) OFF THE RECORD | ||
| Mr. Edward F. Neild, of Shreveport, Louisiana (Mr. David Lloyd) (Half hour - re Truman Library) | ||
| Senator Herbert H. Lehman, New York Senator Hubert H. Humphrey, Minnesota Senator William Benton, Connecticut Congressman Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., New York Mr. Julius Edelstein (Senator Humphrey called Mr. Connelly last week to ask if this group could call on the President to discuss Immigration Legislation) | ||
| (Honorable Frank Pace, Jr., The Secretary of the Army) LOWER WEST DOOR OFF THE RECORD | ||
| H.E. Sir Oliver S. Franks, the Ambassador of Great Britain Viscount Trenchard, Marshal of the Royal Air Force (Arranged at request of British Ambassador; Viscount Trenchard is here at invitation of General Hoyt S. Vandenberg. Viscount was Chief of Air Staff from 1918 to 1929 and subsequently Commissioner of the London Metropolitan Police) | ||
| (Mr. Frank McNaughton) EAST ENTRACE OFF THE RECORD | ||
| Honorable Dean Acheson, The Secretary of State (Usual Thursday appointment) | ||
| (LUNCH) | ||
| (Mr. Douglas W. Orr) (Mr. Richard E. Dougherty) (Here for a meeting of White House Renovation Commission and asked if he might see the President) OFF THE RECORD | ||
| (Pre Press) | ||
| Press & News Conference [Public Papers] | ||
| (The President and Mrs. Truman gave a Diplomatic Reception at the White House) | ||
| [Public Papers: Telegrams to Industry Leaders and to the Union President Calling a Meeting on the Steel Strike] | ||
| (Staff) | ||
| (General W. Bedell Smith, Director, Central Intelligence Agency) (Honorable James Lay, Executive Secretary, National Security Council) OFF THE RECORD | ||
| (Honorable Alben W. Barkley, The Vice President) (Dr. Paul D. White, Boston, Massachusetts) OFF THE RECORD | ||
| Cabinet [Meeting] (Mr. Perlman for Justice, Under Secretary Galvin for Labor; Mr. W. Averell Harriman absent; all others present) | ||
| General Mark Clark (Requested by General Omar Bradley) | ||
| (Mr. David H. Powell, Director of R. F. C. in Kansas City) (Arranged by Miss Rose Conway) LOWER WEST ENTRANCE OFF THE RECORD | ||
| (Honorable Rosel H. Hyde, Member, F. C. C.) (Arranged by Mr. Donald Dawson, who brought him in) OFF THE RECORD | ||
| (The President gave a small stag luncheon for the President of Nicaragua, H.E., Anastasio Somoza) The following were present: The President H.E. The President of Nicaragua (Somoza) H.E. The Ambassador of Nicaragua (Sevilla-Sacasa) Honorable Alben W. Barkley, The Vice President Honorable Fred M. Vinson, The Chief Justice Honorable Dean Acheson, The Secretary of State Honorable Robert A. Lovett, The Secretary of Defense Senator Tom Connally Senator Alexander Wiley Representative Charles A. Eaton Representative James P. Richards Honorable Edward G. Miller, Jr. Honorable Thomas E. Whelan (Amb) Major General Harry H. Vaughan Major General Wallace H. Graham | ||
| (The President and Mrs. Truman left for Anderson House to attend annual party of the White House Aides) | ||
| (The President left for Mayflower Hotel, where he attended a Dinner of National Civil Service League) | ||
| [Public Papers: Address at the 70th Anniversary Meeting of the National Civil Service League] | ||
| Honorable Charles Sawyer, The Secretary of Commerce | ||
| Honorable Philip Murray, President, C. I. O. Mr. Benjamin Moreell, Chairman, Board of Directors, Jones and Laughlin Steel Corp., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Mr. Frank Purnell, President, Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co., Youngstown, Ohio Mr. Benjamin Fairless, President, United States Steel Corp., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Mr. T. F. Patton, Vice President and General Counsel of Republic Steel Mr. A. B. Homer, President, Bethlehem Steel Corp., Bethlehem, Pennsylvania Mr. Clarence Randall, President, Inland Steel Co., Chicago, Illinois The following were CIO Steelworkers - from Mr. Goldberg's office Mr. Arthur Goldberg Mr. James Thimmes Mr. David McDonald Mr. Joseph Molony Mr. Joseph Germano Mr. John Stevens | ||
| [Public Papers: Remarks at a Meeting With Steel industry and Labor Leaders] | ||
| (LUNCH) | ||
| (The President made the television tour of the White House) | ||
| The President remained at the White House all day. During the day he conferred with Messrs. Joseph Short, Charles Murphy, David Stowe, regarding the steel situation. | ||
| [Public Papers: Special Message to the Congress Transmitting Proposed Legislation on a National System of flood Disaster Insurance] | ||
| (Monsignor Curtis Tiernan) OFF THE RECORD | ||
| BIG FOUR Honorable Alben W. Barkley, The Vice President Honorable Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the House Honorable Ernest W. McFarland, Senator from Arizona Honorable John W. McCormack, Congressman from Massachusetts (Usual weekly meeting of BIG FOUR) | ||
| (Staff) | ||
| H.E. Clarence Lorenzo Simpson, Ambassador of Liberia (Arranged thru State. Is newly appointed Ambassador; had assumed duties of his office and awaited pleasure of President to receive him.) | ||
| Dr. Oliver E. Buckley, Chairman, Science Advisory Committee, Office of Defense Mobilization (Dr. John R. Steelman) (Dr. John R. Steelman brough Dr. Buckley in. Dr. Buckley is resigning position on doctor's orders.) |