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Daily Appointments of Harry S. Truman

February 28, 1947

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[Public Papers: Statement by the President Upon Signing Bill for Cooperation With Mexico in Control of Livestock Diseases]
H. E. Asaf Ali, the Ambassador of India (Newly appointed - first Ambassador from India)
(Mr. Gael Sullivan) (Will come off record)
The President received the judges for the Raymond Clapper Memorial Award. They are as follows: Mr. Louis B. Seltzer, Editor, Cleveland Press Mr. Philip L. Graham, Publisher, Washington Post Mr. Ralph McGill, Editor, Atlanta Constitution Mr. Barry Faris, Editor, Internation News Service Honorable A. S. Mike Monroney, former newspaperman and now a Member of Congress (This request came to Mr. Charles Ross from the Chairman of the Standing Committee of Correspondents, of Press Gallery at the Capitol. These judges assemble in Washington to study exhibits from nominees and make their decision. The decision will be announced at the White House Correspondents Annual Dinner, March 1st.)
The President received the forty winners of the Sixth Annual Science Talent Search: Addleman, Mary Bieber, Herman Briggs, Marilyn Louise Christensen, Dorothy Jean Cloke, Paul LeRoy Cole, Irwin Harold Cooley, Robin Cooper, Leon N. Demerec, Vera Radoslava Eisenberg, Jerome Martin Emrick, Donald Day Felsenfeld, Gary Gordon, Milton Paul Gregory, Jr., Clarence Leslie Halverson, Phillip Carl Haugh, Eugene Frederick Hayes, John Richard Hersey, Anne House, Herbert Otis Inman, Charles Gordon Kamb, Walter Barclay Karplus Martin Kopple, Kenneth David McKenna, James McLeish, William Lee Mattuck, Arthur Paul Maynard, Donald More Nagy, Irene Elizabeth Pike, John Nazarian Radack, Herbert Brahm Relyea, Douglas Irving Rennagel, William Robert Self, Cecilia Maud Semiat, Paula B. Shappirio, David Gordon Simmons, Gustavus James Smith, Norman Harkey Taylor, Leonard Stuart Wilt, James William Zemach, Ariel Westinghouse and Science Service(Adults Accompanying them): Mr. James A. Baubie Mr. Charles Cleveland Mrs. Helen M. Davis Mr. Watson Davis Miss Harriet Gormley Miss Margaret E. Patterson Mr. Norman Scharr (This is the group which the President received while Vice President and intended to receive again last year. However, their visit conincided with his visit to Fulton, Missouri so Mrs. Truman received them on the President's behalf. During past five years 200 young men and women have been chosen through the Science Talent Search. They have been given scholarships to proceed with college educations in their chosen fields of science. According to Director, Watson Davis, all 200 give promise of becoming contributing research scientists so urgently needed by our country. They asked the President to present the awards at the Award Banquet at the Statler, which was turned down.)
(Lunch)
Honorable James Webb, Director, Bureau of the Budget (Will need one-half hour)
Press and Radio Conference [Public Papers]
(The President will leave the White House for the National Press Club, where he will present the Wendell L. Willkie Awards for Journalism, at the dinner given for that purpose. He will arrive at the end of the Dinner just for this portion of the program, which should take forty minutes.) [Public Papers: Remarks Upon Presenting the Wendell Willkie Awards for Journalism]
(The President will leave National Press Club to return to the White House.)
(The President will make a Radio Address on behalf of the American Red Cross) [Public Papers]
The Secretary of the Treasury [John W. Snyder]
General Dwight D. Eisenhower (Asked for the appointment)
Senator Alexander Wiley, Wis. Alexander Wiley Wilde, (Grandson of the Senator) Mr. Eugene Haugh (Brought the President some presents from Reedsburg, Wisconsin, Eugene Haugh being from that town. The presents are woolen goods and butter. Haugh was one of the winners of the Science Service Search who called on the President yesterday.)
The Secretary of Labor [Lewis B. Schwellenbach] (Asked for the appointment)
(Lunch)
(Left for the Statler Hotel to attend the National Press Club Dinner)
(EST) Left Washington by air for Grandview, Kansas City and Mexico City, Mexico
(CST) Arrived at Kansas City, Missouri and motored to Grandview to see his mother.
[Public Papers: Special Message to the Congress on Discontinuing the Selective Service]
(CST) Left Kansas City, Missouri, by air for Mexico City, Mexico
(CST) Arrived Mexico City, Mexico
[Public Papers: Address in Mexico City]
In Mexico City.
In Mexico City.
(CST) Left Mexico City by plane for Waco, Texas
(CST) Arrived Waco, Texas, motored to Baylor University.
(CST) Received degree from Baylor University and made an address over National Radio Hook-up. [ Audio: MP3] [Public Papers]
(CST) Left Waco for Washington, D. C. by plane
(EST) Arrived Washington, D. C.
Executive Orders:  [9833 INSPECTION OF INCOME. EXCESS-PROFITS, DECLARED VALUE EXCESS-PROFITS, AND CAPITAL STOCK TAX RETURNS BY FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION.]
(The Secretary of the Treasury [John W. Snyder]) (Honorable Dean Acheson, Acting Secretary of State)
Cabinet [Meeting]
(Lunch)
(The Secretary of the Interior [Julius A. Krug]) (The Attorney General [Tom C. Clark]) (Honorable Clark Clifford)
[Public Papers: Letters Concerning the OWMR Advisory Board's Report on the Guaranteed Wage]
The Secretary of the Treasury [John W. Snyder]
(Mr. Robert Reinsch) (Brother of Leonard Reinsch)
H. E. Henrik de Kauffmann, the Ambassador of Denmark (Mr. de Kauffmann has been Danish Minister in the United States since 1939, and now becomes Ambassador upon elevation of his Legation to an Embassy.
Honorable Lewis W. Douglas, the Ambassador-Designate to Great Britain
(Lunch)
[Public Papers: Special Message to the Congress Recommending Establishment of an Office of Selective Service Records]
(Honorable Dean Acheson, Acting Secretary of State)
Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg, Mich. Senator Robert A. Taft, Ohio Senator Tom Connally, Texas Senator Wallace H. White, Jr., Maine Speaker Joseph W. Martin, Jr., Mass. Congressman Charles A. Halleck, Ind. Congressman Charles A. Eaton, N. J. Congressman Sol Bloom, N. Y. Congressman John Taber, N. Y. Congressman Sam Rayburn, Texas. Congressman Clarence Cannon, Mo. Congressman John W. McCormack, Mass. (The President invited them to come down)
Honorable Ingram M. Stainback, Governor of Hawaii (Wrote us that he would be in Washington at this time and would like to pay his respects to the President.)
(Mr. Gael Sullivan) (Off record)
Honorable Dean Acheson, Acting Secretary of State (Mr. Acheson asked particularly to have this usual Monday appointment. He said he would need it in spite of the fact that he had to come over earlier today.)
(Lunch) (Cabinet-Postmaster Gen. and Atty. General absent.)
Honorable James E. Webb, Director, Bureau of the Budget (Phoned Mr. Connelly for this appointment)
[Public Papers: Letter to Members of the Advisory Committee on the Merchant Marine]
Senator Harley M. Kilgore, West Virginia (Phoned Mr. Connelly last Saturday for this appointment)
The Secretary of Agriculture [Clinton P. Anderson] (Phoned Mr. Connelly yesterday for this appointment)
(Lunch)
Mr. L. Metcalfe Walling, Administrator of Fair Labor Standards Act
(Honorable Charles Berry) (Mr. Bryson Rasch) (Mr. Earl Mullin)
The President and Mrs. Truman attended the benefit performance of the movie, "The Best Years of Our Life." (Keith's Theater)
[Log of President Truman's Trip: Key West]
Honorable Herbert C. Hoover
Honorable Edwin Pauley
(The President left for the Capitol)
The President addressed a Joint Session of the Congress on aid to Greece and Turkey. [ Audio: MP3] [Public Papers] (Left immediately after for the airport)
The President took plane for Key West, Florida. He lunched on the plane.
On this date President Truman requested an appropriation for $400 million before a joint session of Congress to fight the spread of communism in Greece and Turkey. See student research file The Truman Doctrine: documents, photographs and more.
[Log of President Truman's Trip: Key West]
[Log of President Truman's Trip: Key West]
[Log of President Truman's Trip: Key West]
[Public Papers: Statement by the President Concerning Greek Reaction to His Message]
[Log of President Truman's Trip: Key West]
[Log of President Truman's Trip: Key West]
[Log of President Truman's Trip: Key West]
[Log of President Truman's Trip: Key West]
[Public Papers: Special Message to the Congress on Export Controls]
At Key West.
The President arrived at the Washington Airport.
Executive Orders:  [9834 REGULATIONS GOVERNING THE PAYMENT OF EXPENSES OF TRANSPORTATION OF CIVILIAN OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES TRANSFERRED TO THE RETURN OF DEPARTMENTAL FUNCTIONS TO THE SEAT OF GOVERNMENT]
Honorable James E. Webb, Director, Bureau of the Budget (Phoned Mr. Connelly yesterday. Needs to see the President about all-over situation on which they need to move fast; also on OPA deficiency on which must act as soon as possible; also a memorandum sent to the President about Dr. Bush which he, Webb, would like to see once more.)
The Secretary of the Treasury [John W. Snyder]
(General Arthur Wilson)
Honorable Dean Acheson, the Acting Secretary of State (Usual Thursday appointment)
(Lunch)
Executive Orders:  [9835 PRESCRIBING PROCEDURES FOR THE ADMINISTRATION OF AN EMPLOYEES LOYALTY PROGRAM IN THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH OF THE GOVERNMENT]
[Public Papers: Special Message to the Congress on U.S. Participation in the World Health Organization]
The Secretary of War [Robert P. Patterson]
(Mr. Mize Peters) (Mr. John Phillips)
(Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Schroeder, of New Orleans, La.) (Mr. Schroeder is Vice President of the National Bank of Commerce, New Orleans, and is here attend- ing a convention. He asked to pay respects. Came in northwest gate, off record, to see Mr. Matthew Connelly)
Senator Francis J. Myers Senator Edward Martin, Pennsylvania Congressman Chester Gross (Wrote to ask if they might come in when the President returned to extend him an invitation to visit Pennsylvania this spring.)
Honorable J. Monroe Johnson, Member, Interstate Commerce Commission (Honorable John Steelman) (Colonel Louis Johnson phoned Mr. Matthew Connelly to ask if he could see the President, with Mr. Steelman, upon the President's return from Key West.)
Honorable Keen Johnson, Under Secretary of Labor
Honorable Arthur Bliss Lane, U.S. Ambassador to Poland (Now in Washington for consultation and requested this appointment through Mr. Woodward)
Honorable Herman B. Baruch, U. S. Ambassador- Designate to the Netherlands
Honorable James E. Folsom, Governor of Alabama
(Lunch)
Executive Orders:  [9837 REGULATIONS GOVERNING THE TRANSFER OF LEAVE BETWEEN THE OREIGN SERVICE AND OTHER GOVERNMENT AGENCIES.]
Executive Orders:  [9836 VESTING CERTAIN FUNCTIONS AND AUTHORITY WITH RESPECT TO THE VETERANS' EMERGENCY HOUSING PROGRAM IN THE HOUSING EXPEDITER2]
[Public Papers: Statement by the President Upon Signing the Urgent Deficiency Appropriation Bill]
(Honorable John E. Peurifoy, Assistant Secretary of State)
Major General John F. O'Ryan, Army Reserve Corps, New York City (Phoned Mr. Connelly while the President was at Key West, to ask for this.)
Honorable Paul Porter (Phoned Mr. Connelly last week to ask if he might come in to report on his trip.)
Mr. George Killion (This appointment was postponed from last Wednesday, due to the President's decision to prolong his visit in Florida.)
The Secretary of Agriculture [Clinton P. Anderson] The Secretary of War [Robert P. Patterson] Mr. Tracy Voorhees The Secretary of Commerce [W. Averell Harriman] Honorable Willard Thorp of the State Department (Dr. John Steelman) (Secretary Anderson asked if the President would see, that they might speak to the President of the difficulty in the Army program for the production of fertilizer. Group known as the Cabinet Subcommittee on food.)