Daily Appointments of Harry S. Truman
April 28, 1947
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| Mr. Hulbert Taft, Editor, Cincinnati Times-Star (Made by Mr. Ross, is cousin of the Senator) | ||
| (Cabinet Lunch - except Attorney General, the Postmaster General and the Secretary of Interior) | ||
| (Mr. Edwin Pauley) (Phoned Mr. Matthew Connelly last week for this appointment) | ||
| The Secretary of Agriculture [Clinton P. Anderson] (Phoned late yesterday) | ||
| Mr. Gael Sullivan) (Phoned Mr. Matthew Connelly late yesterday to ask if he could come in today off record) | ||
| Mrs. Agnes Meyer (Phoned Mr. Matthew Connelly last week to ask for this) | ||
| Lt. General Hoyt S. Vandenberg Rear Admiral R. H. Hillenkoetter (Arranged by Admiral William D. Leahy) | ||
| The President signed H. R. 2404, "An Act to Suspend certain import taxes on copper". The following were present: Congressman James T. Patterson, Conn. (R) Congressman Robert A. Grant, Indiana (R) Former Senator John Danaher (Congressman Patterson phoned Mr. Matthew Connelly last week to ask if they might come in when the President signed this Bill) | ||
| (Mr. George Killion) (Asked Mr. Matthew Connelly for this last week) | ||
| The Rt. Hon. the Lord Inverchapel, The Ambassador of Great Britain The Viscount Trenchard (The British Ambassador asked to present Lord Trenchard to the President. Lord Trenchard was virtually the founder and first commander of the Royal Air Force which, as a separate military service under the British Crown, was prototype of other spearate national air forces subsequently created. He was Chief of the Air Staff in the Air Ministry from 1918 until 1929 and subsequently was Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police from 1921 to 1925. Since then he has held no official position under the British Government but has been an active member of the House of Lords. Lord Trenchard is a Director of the British Goodyear Co. and is visiting the United States as the guest of Mr. Litchfield, the chairman of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co.) | ||
| Honorable Donald Nelson (Phoned Mr. Matthew Connelly yesterday for this) | ||
| Honorable Robert Butler, U. S. Ambassador to Australia | ||
| (Mr. Harry Whitney, of Kansas City) (Mr. Joseph Miniace of Kansas City) (Phoned Mr. Matthew Connelly yesterday) | ||
| (Lunch) | ||
| The Secretary of War [Robert P. Patterson] The Secretary of the Treasury [John W. Snyder] Honorable Dean Acheson, the Under Secretary of State (The President asked them to come in and bring such assistants as they might need, to discuss the dis- posal of surplus foreign currency) | ||
| (The President left the White House for the airport, where he welcomed President Aleman of Mexico. [Public Papers: Remarks of Welcome to President Aleman of Mexico at the Washington National Airport] He drove with him to the District Building for presentation by the D. C. Commissioners of the keys to the city; and on to the White House.) | ||
| DINNER AT THE WHITE HOUSE The President H.E. Miguel Aleman, President of Mexico H.E. Jaime Torres Bodet, Secretary of Finance H.E. Ramon Betata, Secretary of Finance H.E. Antonio Espinosa de los Monteros, Mexican Ambassador to the U.S. H.E. Senor Dr. Luis Quintanilla, Representative to the Pan Am. Union Dr. Jorge Viesca, Private Secretary to the President of Mexico Lt. Gen. Leonardo Ruiz, Military Aide to the President of Mexico Rear Admiral Ignacio Garcia Jurado, Naval Aide to the Pres. of Mexico Dr. Rafael Fuentes, Chief of Protocol The Hon. Senor Don Rafael de la Colina - Mexican Embassy Dr. Enrique Parra, Special Assistant Senor Don Vicente Sanchez Gavito - Mexican Embassy Dr. Carlos Soto Maynez, Personal Physician to President Aleman Major Manuel Martinez Castro, Assistant Military Aide Major Miguel Ramirez Ponce, Assistant Military Aide Captain Alfredo Valdez Flores, Assistant Military Aide The Chief Justice [Fred Vinson] The Speaker [Joseph W. Martin] The Secretary of State [George C. Marshall] Hon. Warren R. Austin The Secretary of the Treasury [John W. Snyder] The Secretary of War [Robert P. Patterson] The Attorney General [Tom C. Clark] The Secretary of the Navy [James Forrestal] The Secretary of the Interior [Julius A. Krug] The Secretary of Agriculture [Clinton P. Anderson] The Secretary of Commerce [W. Averell Harriman] The Secretary of Labor [Lewis B. Schwellenbach] Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg Senator Alben W. Barkley Senator Tom Connally Senator Wallace H. White, Jr. Senator Scott W. Lucas Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz Representative Sam Rayburn Representative Sol Bloom Representative Charles A. Eaton Representative Charles A. Halleck General A. A. Vandergrift Hon. Dean Acheson Hon. Walter Thurston Hon. William Benton Hon. Spruille Braden Hon. John R. Steelman Hon. William D. Hassett Hon. Matthew J. Connelly Hon. Charles G. Ross Hon. Clark M. Clifford Hon. Stanley Woodward Hon. Josephus Daniels Hon. John Russell Young Hon. Lindsay C. Warren Dr. Pedro de Alba Hon. John D. Goodlee Hon. David E. Lilienthal Hon. William McC. Martin, Jr. Mr. J. Edgar Hoover Mr. Thomas H. MacDonald Dr. Fred L. Soper Hon. Edgar E. Witt Mr. Philip L. Graham Dr. Cloyd H. Marvin Mr. B. M. McKelway Mr. John T. O'Rourke Rev. Edmund A. Walsh Mr. Ellis Briggs Mr. Guy Ray Senor Fernando Benitez Mr. Feliz Belair, Jr. Lt. Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway Rear Adm. J. Cary Jones Maj. Gen. Harry H. Vaughan Rear Adm. James H. Foskett | ||
| State Dinner for the President of Mexico | ||
| Senator Alben W. Barkley, Ky. | ||
| (Mr. and Mrs. Jesse W. Barrett, of St. Louis) (Wrote Mr. Charles Ross they were coming here for the convention of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, and they hoped might have chance to shake hands with the President) | ||
| (Mr. Edward Jacobson) (Wired that he would be here attending meeting of Supreme Lodge of B'nai B'rith, and asked if he might see the President. Also asked the President to present the award of this Lodge to Bernard Baruch at Dinner, but the President refused to do this.) | ||
| (Mr. A. P. Greensfelder of St. Louis) (Martin Lewis wrote Mr. Matthew Connelly that Mr. Greensfelder would be here at this time. Once organized Missouri Planning Conference, and had the President selected as its first President (this in 1931) | ||
| (Honorable Richmond Keech) | ||
| Honorable James E. Webb, Director, Bureau of the Budget | ||
| (The Attorney General [Tom C. Clark]) | ||
| The President and Mrs. Truman left the White House for the Mexican Embassy where they attended Dinner for President Aleman; they remained at the Embassy for a reception at 10.00 p.m. | ||
| [Public Papers: Message to the Congress Transmitting Reorganization Plan 1 of 1947] | ||
| [Public Papers: Message to the Congress Transmitting Reorganization Plan 2 of 1947] | ||
| Honorable J. F. T. O'Connor, U. S. District Judge, Southern District of California (Wrote Mr. Connelly he would be in Washington at this time on a case and hoped he might pay his respects to the President.) | ||
| Honorable James E. Webb, Director, Bureau of the Budget | ||
| The Secretary of Commerce [W. Averell Harriman] | ||
| The President received the Managers of State Press and Publishers Associations who are working with General Fleming on the forthcoming Highway Safety Conference. (This group has accepted active sponsorship of this program in their respective States. It will include every medium of contact available to the daily and weekly newspapers of the nation. They are here at General Fleming's invitation to confer) The following persons met with the President: Major General Philip B. Fleming, General Chairman, President's Highway Safety Conference Mr. Thomas H. MacDonald, Chairman, Coordinating Committee, President's Highway Safety Conference Mr. Julian H. Harvey, Managing Director, National Conservation Bureau Mr. Harold K. Philips, Director, Public Relations, Association of Casualty & Surety Executives Mr. Don Bernard, Director, Bureau of Advertising, American Newspapers Publishers Association Mr. P. G. Stromberg, National Editorial Association Arthur Sylvester, Chief, Washington Bureau, Neward Evening News Mr. Walter A. Shead, Western Newspaper Union, Washington, D.C. Mr. William L. Daley, National Editorial Association, Washington, D. C. Mr. Tom B. Green, Jr., Manager, Tennessee Press Association, Inc. Professor R.R. Barlow, Secretary, Illinois Press Association Howard Palmer, Manager, Missouri Press Associations, Inc. Homer J. Givens, Manager, South Dakota Press Assoc. Mr. Ray A. Schonian, Manager, Utah State Press Assoc. Mr. Bruce McCoy, Manager, Louisiana Press Association Mr. Frank Hutchinson, Manager, New Jersey Press Assoc. Mr. William Hardy, Manager, Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers Assoc. Mr. A. W. Bohlen, Executive Director, The President's Highway Safety Conference Mr. W. R. Dunman, Secretary, Federal Committee Highway Safety and Assistant Director, President's Highway Safety Conference Mr. Claude Walder, Secretary, Cook County, Illinois, Publishers Association | ||
| [Public Papers: Remarks to a Special Group on the Role of the Press in Traffic Safety] | ||
| The President received the National Committeemen, Committeewomen, State Chairmen and Vice Chairmen, from the States of Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin: Minnesota: Mrs. Margaret Drips, National Committeewoman, Rochester Honorable Harold Barker, State Chairman, Elbow Lake Honorable George Phillips, Vice Chairman, Minneapolis Mrs. Marian LeSueur, Vice Chairman, Minneapolis Mrs. Eugenie Anderson, Vice Chairman, Red Wing Mrs. Jasper Russell, Vice Chairman, St. Paul North Dakota: Mrs. Daphna Nygaard, Nat'l Committeewoman, Jamestown Mrs. Alice Wagner, Vice Chairman, Valley City South Dakota: Honorable Eugene C. Mahoney, Nat'l Committeeman, Sioux Falls Mrs. Jennie M. O'Hern, Nat'l Committeewoman, Wakpala Honorable Lynn Fellows, Sate Chairman, Plankinton Wisconsin: Honorable Robert E. Tehan, Nat'l Committeeman, Milwaukee Mrs. Helen F. Marty, Nat'l Committeewoman, Monroe Honorable Charles P. Greene, State Chairman, Milwaukee Honorable John McGonigle, Vice Chairman, Sun Prairie Honorable James Corcoran, Exec. Vice Chairman, Milwaukee Honorable A. J. Biemiller, Former Congressman, Milwaukee Honorable George Maser (Mr. James L. Markham and Mr. Eugene O'Brien, Publishers of the Hennepin County Review at Hopkins, Minnesota, arrived too late for the meeting at the White House due to delay of their plane.) | ||
| (Lunch) | ||
| The President gave a stag dinner for the President of Mexico [Public Papers: Citation Accompanying Legion of Merit Awarded to Miguel Aleman, President of Mexico] | ||
| [Public Papers: Joint Statement Following Discussions With the President of Mexico] | ||
| (The President left the White House and motored to Union Station with the President Aleman of Mexico, who left on the train for New York City.) | ||
| Honorable Raymond M. Foley, Administrator, National Housing Agency (Honorable John R. Steelman) (Arranged by Dr. Steelman) | ||
| His Eminence Francis Cardinal Spellman (Telegraphed the President yesterday to ask for this appointment) | ||
| Mr. John H. Thacher (Wired Mr. Connelly from New York last week, to ask for this) | ||
| Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney, Wyoming (Phoned Mr. Connelly Tuesday to ask for this appointment) | ||
| (Mr. J. G. Carlisle, Director of Industrial Development, Missouri Pacific Lines) (Mr. H. B. Jordan) (Mr. Carlisle wrote Mr. Connelly to ask if he might have a short meeting with the President. Came off record through the East Entrance) | ||
| Honorable Nelson Lee Smith, Chairman, Federal Power Commission (Phoned Mr. Connelly to ask for this appointment) | ||
| Honorable Williamson Howell, American Ambassador- designate to Uruguay (Asked to pay his respects to the President before leaving for his new post on Sunday, May 4th.) | ||
| (Lunch) | ||
| [Public Papers: Letter to the President, National Association of Wholesalers] | ||
| No appointments. | ||
| The President and Mrs. Truman with guests went aboard the USS WILLIAMSBURG for a cruise | ||
| Returned to the White House | ||
| Executive Orders: [9846 DESIGNATING THE UNITED STATES MISSION TO THE UNITED NATIONS AND PROVIDING FOR ITS DIRECTION AND ADMINISTRATION] | ||
| (Honorable J. K. Vardaman) (Is bringing the President a book in which he is interested) | ||
| Honorable James Mead, former Senator from N. Y. (Asked Mr. Matthew Connelly to arrange this some time ago) | ||
| Rear Admiral Ellery W. Stone, USNR (Arranged by Admiral James Foskett at the request of the Secretary of the Navy [James Forrestal]--to discuss Allied Control Commission in Italy) | ||
| Honorable Melvin E. Thompson, Governor of Georgia Honorable E. D. Rivers, former Governor Mr. W. T. Dean, President State Senate Mr. George Hamilton, State Treasurer Mr. William Morris, new State Chairman Mrs. Virginia R. Price, National Committeewoman | ||
| Not available | ||
| General H. H. Arnold (Phoned Mr. Matthew Connelly he expected to be here at this time and would like to call on the President) | ||
| Senator Warren O. Magnuson, Washington Mr. Joseph Drumheller, President of the Board of Regents of the University of Washington and also President of Spokane Chamber of Commerce (Senator Magnuson asked Mr. Matthew Connelly to arrange so that Mr. Drumheller might invite the President to receive a degree from the University of Washington on his next visit to that State) | ||
| (Mr. Joe Guilfoyle) (Wrote Mr. Matthew Connelly he planned to motor to Washington at this time and would like to see the President. Came off record, to see Mr. Matthew Connelly) | ||
| Honorable James M. Landis, Chairman, C. A. B. (Cabled Mr. Matthew Connelly from Buenos Aires, to ask if he might see the President today to report on Argentine air negotiations, which he says may or may not be successful. Says that, if successful, "Must consider tone of statement to American press not only in light of South American situation but position we will take before the world next week in Montreal on this general subject". | ||
| The Secretary of State [George C. Marshall] | ||
| (Cabinet Luncheon - Absentees are Treasury, Postmaster General, Commerce and Agriculture) | ||
| Honorable Julius A. Krug, Secretary of Interior | ||
| The Secretary of the Treasury [John W. Snyder] | ||
| (The President left for Wardman Park Hotel, where he attended Stag Dinner given by General H. H. Arnold) | ||
| Executive Orders: [9847 LIQUIDATION OF THE SOLID FUELS ADMINISTRATION FOR WAR(1)] | ||
| The President left the White House for the Departmental Auditorium where he opened the Fire Prevention Conference. | ||
| [Public Papers: Address at the Opening of the Conference on Fire Prevention] | ||
| Honorable Francis B. Sayre | ||
| Honorable Ray Atherton, American Ambassador to Canada (To discuss the President's forthcoming visit to Canada) | ||
| (Mr. and Mrs. Bill Francisco) (Old friend, coming off record. Wrote the President in April that he would be passing through here about this time and would like to drop in) | ||
| Mr. Spyros Skouras, President, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. (Requested this last week through Tony Muto) | ||
| (Lunch downstairs in the Executive Office) | ||
| The President received the National Committeemen, National Committeewomen, State Chairmen and Vice Chairmen from the States of Iowa, Kansas, Michigan and Nebraska: Iowa: Honorable G. G. Jeck, Nat'l Committeeman, Atlantic Mrs. Florence M. Lynch, Nat'l Committeewoman, LeMars Honorable Jake More, State Chairman, Des Moines Mrs. Benona Young, Vice Chairman, Bloomfield Kansas: Honorable Carl V. Rice, Nat'l Committeeman, Kansas City Mrs. Georgia Neese Clark, Nat'l Committeewoman, Richland Honorable D. C. Hill, State Chairman, Wamego Mrs. Fern Tucker, Vice Chairman, Liberal Michigan: Honorable Cyril Bevan, Nat'l Committeeman, Detroit Mrs. Clara D. Van Auken, Nat'l Committeewoman, Detroit Honorable John R. Franco, State Chairman, Lansing Mrs. Violet Patterson, Vice Chairman, Lansing Hon. Albert J. Tavarozzi, Treasurer, Detroit Hon. Peter V. Healey, Secretary, Detroit Mrs. Catherine Curtis, Eleanor Roosevelt Clubs, Detroit Hon. Robert McCabe, Exec. Asst. to Chairman Hon. Frank Bogart Nebraska: Honorable James C. Quigley, National Committeeman, Valentine Mrs. Clarence L. Clark, Nat'l Committeemwoman, Lincoln Hon. William Ritchie, Sate Chairman, Omaha Hon. Clarence L. Clark, Vice Chairman, Lincoln Mrs. Grace Barmore, Vice Chairman, Lexington Honorable H. C. Larson, Vice Chairman, Decatur Hon. Peter Parkert, Vice Chairman, Hooper Honorable D. M. Murphy, Jr., Vice Chairman, Omaha | ||
| [Public Papers: Letter Appointing Members of Panel on Labor Problems in Government-Possessed Plants or Mines] | ||
| Senator Carl A. Hatch, New Mexico (Called last week to ask if he could see the President with reference to Inter-state Oil Compact, the pact entered into by nineteen states to govern oil production, and which is due for renewal. It must have approval of Federal Government) | ||
| Senator Harley M. Kilgore, W. Va. (Asked for this about ten days ago) | ||
| Honorable M. S. Szymczak, Member, Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System (Phoned Mr. Connelly for this last week) | ||
| Congressman Edward J. Hart, N. J. (Congressman Hart asked for this in order to extend invitation on behalf of the Mystic Shrine) | ||
| Congressman Herbert C. Bonner, N.C. Honorable Lindsay C. Warren, Comptroller General of U. S. (Congressman Bonner phoned to ask if they [could] see the President in order to extend to him an invitation on behalf of the Roanoke Island Historical Association, to attend Sir Walter Raleigh Colony pageant in Manteo, N.C.) | ||
| Congressman Orville Zimmerman, Mo. (Asked the President for this last Saturday when he talked to him on the telephone) | ||
| Senator Clyde R. Hoey, N. C. Senator William B. Umstead, N.C. (Senator Hoey asked for this, said it would only take five minutes) | ||
| Honorable A. Harry Moore, former Governor of N. J. Mr. Arthur Potterton, Commissioner of Revenue and Finance of N. J. (These gentlemen were to have accompanied Congressman Hart at 11.00 a.m. today but they missed their train and could not come until this time) | ||
| H. E. Joaquin M. Elizalde, Ambassador of the Philippine Republic (Is bringing the President a hat; a tablecloth for Mrs. Truman) | ||
| (Mr. George Wallace, of Kansas City Star) | ||
| The Secretary of Agriculture [Clinton P. Anderson] Colonel Raymond L. Harrison (The Secretary asked for this appointment - Harrison associated with him in International Food Survey and is bringing along some amendments to the Greek Loan which he obtained from Honorable Herbert Hoover in New York) | ||
| (General Ralph Truman) (General Harry Vaughan) (Off record, to discuss 35th Division Reunion) | ||
| (Lunch) | ||
| Mr. and Mrs. Miller Mr. and Mrs. Warr | ||
| (Mr. and Mrs. Buck Taylor) | ||
| Dr. J. Z. Huang | ||
| Executive Orders: [9848 DISPOSAL OF CERTAIN FOREIGN MERCHANT VESSELS] | ||
| (Miss Greta Kempton - artist) | ||
| Press and Radio Conference [Public Papers] | ||
| (Robert Denton, James E. Lyons, George M. Dorsey, J. C. Brown and Anthony Muto) (Newsreel men who asked to see the President on his birthday for the purpose of presenting 13 reels of film covering his two years in the White House) | ||
| Congressman Michael J. Kirwan, (D) Ohio (Asked if he might come in and congratulate the President as he has not seen the President since he came to the White House; also discuss Democratic matters in Ohio) | ||
| Dr. E. L. Henderson, of Louisville, Ky. Dr. Ross Sensenich (Resentatives of American Medical Association - to present invitation to the President for Centennial Meeting of American Medical Association in June) | ||
| Senator William Langer, North Dakota Congressman Charles R. Robertson, North Dakota (Senator Langer called Mr. Connelly for this - re judgeship) | ||
| Honorable Paul V. McNutt, U. S. Ambassador to the Republic of the Philippines (Asked Mr. Connelly for this) | ||
| (Mr. Homer Pittinger) (Mrs. Homer Pittinger) (Old friend of the President's, formerly lived in Grandview, Missouri) |