Daily Appointments of Harry S. Truman
June 16, 1947
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| The Secretary of the Treasury [John W. Snyder] | ||
| (Dr. & Mrs. A. J. Campbell and daughters, of Sedalia, Missouri) | ||
| (Mr. George M. Harrison) | ||
| (Lunch) | ||
| The Secretary of State [George C. Marshall] (Usual Monday appointment - was away and could not come at 12.30 pm) | ||
| (Worked on speech to be delivered at Princeton) | ||
| (Princeton University) | ||
| Departed Union Station, Washington, D. C. | ||
| Arrived lower railroad yards, Princeton, New Jersey. Party was greeted here by a delegation of University officials and New Jersey representatives. The entire party then entered automobiles and drove to Prospect House (President Dodd's residence on University campus), where they remained until 10.25 a.m. | ||
| President Truman, President Dodds, the Governor General of Canada, Governor Driscoll of New Jersey, Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson, and General Dwight D. Eisenhower left Prospect House, and drove to Madison Hall, where they donned robes and joined academic procession at 10.50 a.m. | ||
| President Truman and the above-named individuals joined academic procession, walked across campus and along Nassau Street to the Amphitheatre, where the ceremonies were held. (Mrs. Truman and Miss Margaret Truman were escorted on foot across the campus to the reserved seating section in the Amphitheatre.) | ||
| Convocation exercises began: Invocation by Dean Hymn Address by President Dodds Hymn Conferring of Honorary Degrees by President Dodds Introduction of President Truman by President Dodds | ||
President Truman delivered address
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[Public Papers] National Anthem sung by audience
Benediction |
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| The President, Mrs. Truman, Miss Margaret Truman, the Wells Family, and Admiral William Leahy were escorted on foot to Prospect House for luncheon. (The other members of the Presidential party had luncheon at Madison Hall and then joined the President at Prospect House.) | ||
| The Presidential party departed from Prospect House and motored to the Presidential train waiting in the Princeton lower railroad yards. | ||
| Departed for Washington, D. C. | ||
| Arrived Washington, D. C. | ||
| Senator Brien McMahon, Conn. (Phoned Mr. Matthew Connelly last week to ask for this) | ||
| Dr. Edwin G. Nourse, Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers (Made this appointment about two weeks ago) | ||
| The Secretary of Agriculture [Clinton P. Anderson] (Asked if he might come in for a few minutes, early today, to talk a few minutes on the Wool Bill) | ||
| The President opened the Highway Safety Conference [Public Papers] | ||
| Congressman Carl T. Curtis, Nebraska Miss Maurine Steyer, 4-H Girl Winner Mr. F. S. Frisbee | ||
| (Admiral Louis E. Denfeld) (Admiral William D. Leahy) | ||
| Honorable Frank J. Lauche | ||
| Honorable Kenneth C. Royall, Under Secretary of War Honorable Thomas J. Hargrave, Chairman, Army & Navy Munitions Board Honorable Richard Deupree, former Chairman Honorable John Kenney, Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Secretary Kenneth C. Royall talked to Mr. Matthew Connelly about the middle of May, and asked him to set this up at this time) | ||
| (Lunch) | ||
| Honorable James Webb, Director, Bureau of the Budget | ||
| (The Secretary of the Treasury [John W. Snyder]) | ||
| (Mr. Ted Marks) (Mr. Lew Barringer) | ||
| [Public Papers: Letter to the President of the Senate and to the Speaker of the House on the Administration of Guam, Samoa, and the Former Japanese Mandated Islands] | ||
| (Mr. Augustus Tack - artist) | ||
| Honorable James E. Webb, Director, Bureau of the Budget The Secretary of Commerce [W. Averell Harriman] (Mr. Webb asked on Monday to have this arranged) | ||
| Senator Richard B. Russell, Ga. Congressman E. E. Cox, Ga. (Senator Russell called Mr. Connelly and asked for this appointment) | ||
| Honorable John B. Blandford, Jr., formerly National Housing Administrator (Asked for this appointment before the President went to Canada to talk about his trip to China) | ||
| Senator John H. Overton, La. | ||
| (Mr. William G. Boatright) | ||
| The President received the National Committeemen, Committeewomen, State Chairmen and Vice Chairman from the states of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina and South Carolina and also Committeewoman from Puerto Rico: ALABAMA: Colonel Marion Rushton, Nat'l Committeeman, Montgomery Mrs. Lennard Thomas, Nat'l Committeewoman, Montgomery Hon. & Mrs. Gessner T. McCorvey, State Chairman, Mobile Hon. Walter J. Price, Vice Chairman, Huntsville FLORIDA: Hon. J. Frank Adams, Nat'l Committeeman, Blountstown Mrs. E. Neil Alford, Nat'l Committeewoman, Jacksonville Mrs. Lucile C. Tally, Vice Chairman, Tavares Hon. Paul Brown, Nat'l Committeeman, 1940-44, Palatha GEORGIA: Hon. E. D. Rivers, Nat'l Committeeman, Valdosta Mrs. Virginia P. Price, Nat'l Committeewoman , Louisville Hon. William S. Morris, State Chairman, Augusta Hon. Stonewall H. Dyer, Vice Chairman, Atlanta Hon. & Mrs. R. G. Daniell, Vice Chairman, Metter Mrs. J. W. Oglesby, Vice Chairman, Quitman Hon. James Evitt, Vice Chairman, Ringgold Mrs. Schley Thompson, Treasurer, Atlanta Hon. John W. Greer, Secretary, Lakeland Hon. William T. Deane, Pres., State Senate MISSISSIPPI: Hon. J. B. Snider, Nat'l Committeeman, Clarksdale Hon. Herbert Holmes, State Chairman, Senatobia Hon. Thom Mark Huff (Substituting for Vice Chairman Forest) NORTH CAROLINA: Hon. Joe L. Blythe, Nat'l Committeeman, Charlotte Miss Beatrice Cobb, Nat'l Committeewoman, Morganton Mrs. B. B. Everett, Vice Chairman, Palmyra SOUTH CAROLINA: Hon. Olin D. Johnston, Nat'l Committeeman, Columbia Hon. William P. Baskin, State Chairman, Bishopville Mrs. Kitty McCravy Willson, Vice Chairman, Easley PUERTO RICO: Miss Maria Campos, National Committeewoman | ||
| (Lunch - downstairs in the Executive Office) | ||
| (The Secretary of Agriculture [Clinton P. Anderson]) (Honorable Dean Acheson, Under Secretary of State) (Honorable William Clayton, Under Secretary of State) (Re the Wool Bill) | ||
| [Public Papers: Veto of the Taft-Hartley Labor Bill] | ||
| Cabinet [Meeting] (Dean Acheson for State; Wiggins for Treasury; Jesse Donaldson for Post Office and Johnson for Labor) | ||
| Senator Millard E. Tydings, Md. Senator Chan Gurney, S. Dak. Cong. Walter G. Andrews, N. Y. Congressman Carl Vinson, Ga. (This is the appointment which the President asked to have arranged last April, but because of absence of Congressman Vinson at that time, and later of the President, has had to be postponed. It is with reference to correspondence from the Secretary of War concerning permanent commissions for certain Army officers and also Navy.) | ||
| Congressman Jere Cooper, Tenn. Jere Cooper, Jr. Anna Frances Jones (Congressman Cooper asked Mr. Matthew Connelly if he might bring his son in and his sister and her daughter to meet the President) | ||
| (Honorable Paul M. Herzog, Chairman, NLRB) (Phoned Mr. Matthew Connelly if he might see the President for a few minutes off record -- east entrance) | ||
| Honorable Charles Wilson, Chairman Committee on Civil Rights Mr. Charles Luckman (This was arranged sometime ago.) | ||
| H. E. Carlos Martins, the Ambassador of Brazil (Honorable Stanley Woodward) (The Ambassador wishes to invite the President to visit Brazil) | ||
| H. E. Hon. Sean Nunan, the Minister of Ireland Honorable Jos. Nunan, Commissioner of Internal Revenue | ||
| Honorable Millard F. Caldwell, Governor of Florida The Secretary of Interior [Julius A. Krug] Senator Claude Pepper, Fla. Senator Spessard L. Holland, Fla. (The Governor to invite the President to opening of Everglades National Park in Florida) | ||
| The President invited the following to luncheon at the White House. He wanted to talk with them regarding the Labor Bill which he had just vetoed. Honorable Carl A. Hatch, New Mexico Honorable Burnet R. Maybank, South Carolina Honorable Richard B. Russell, Ga. Honorable William B. Umstead, North Carolina Honorable Herbert R. O'Conor, Md. Honorable Tom Connally, Texas Honorable J. W. Fulbright, Arkansas Honorable Walter F. George, Ga. Honorable John L. McClellan, Arkansas Honorable John H. Overton, La. Honorable Alben W. Barkley, Kentucky Honorable Milton R. Young, North Dakota Honorable John J. Sparkman, Alabama Honorable Leslie Biffle | ||
| (Vice Admiral Wm. W. Smith, Chairman, Maritime Commission) (Mr. Frederick J. Lawton of the Bureau of Budget) (Honorable John Steelman) | ||
| The President received the members of the Balkan Commission: Australia: Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Moore Brazil: Mr. A. Mendes Vianna China: Dr. Wunsz King Mr. and Mrs. Sih Kwan-Tsien Major Wang Ting-Pang Colombia: Mr. Francisco Urrutia France: Mr. and Mrs. Georges Daux Mr. H. DeLimairac Poland: Mr. Zbigniew Gawrak-Czeczot United Kingdom: Mr. R. T. Windle Mr. G. Clutton Miss Woodward USSR: Mr. Kudriaztsev Greece: Mr. and Mrs. Alexandre Kyrou Mr. George Phylactopoulos Mr. Byron Theodoropoulos United Nations: Colonel Roscher-Lund Mr. Gottesman United States: Mr. Mark Ethridge State Department: Mr. Onschuetz Mr. Howard Mr. Bancroft Mr. Baxter Mr. Breckinridge Mr. Bloomfield | ||
| Garden Party for Veterans | ||
| Radio Address on Labor Bill
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[Public Papers: Radio Address to the American People on the Veto of the Taft-Hartley Bill] |
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| (The President went to the LaSalle Apartments where he visited the studio of Mr. Augustus Tack, artist) | ||
| (The President made recordings for United Nations) | ||
| (The President posed for newsreels, delivering part of his speech of the previous night, re the Labor Bill) | ||
| (Colonel Lewis M. Means) | ||
| Senator Carl A. Hatch, New Mexico Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney, Wyo. Congressman Walter K. Granger, Utah | ||
| (Lunch) | ||
| The President, Mrs. Truman and Party left for Griffith Stadium, where the President participated in unveiling of the memorial to Walter Johnson - re- maining for the baseball game, Washington vs. St. Louis) | ||
| [Public Papers: Statement by the President on the Economic Effects of Foreign Aid] | ||
| The President asked that the following persons come to the White House Study to discuss the Foreign Relief Program--management of our Foreign Relief Program with particular reference to our national resources and the extent to which we can tap them to implement the Foreign Relief Program: The Secretary of State [George C. Marshall] The Secretary of the Treasury [John W. Snyder] The Secretary of Agriculture [Clinton P. Anderson] The Secretary of the Interior [Julius A. Krug] The Under Secretary of State, Dean Acheson The Under Secretary of Commerce, Foster Honorable John Steelman Senator Alben W. Barkley, Ky. Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg, Mich. Senator Tom Connally, Tex. Senator Wallace White, Me. | ||
| Executive Orders: [9867 AMENDING EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 9492, AS AMENDED, PRESCRIBING REGULATIONS GOVERNING NON-MILITARY AND NON-NAVAL TRANSPORTATION ON ARMY AND NAVY AIR TRANSPORTS] | ||
| [Public Papers: Letter to Senator Barkley on the Attempt To Override the Taft-Hartley Veto] | ||
| [Public Papers: Special Message to the House of Representatives Transmitting Conventions and Recommendations of the International Labor Conference] | ||
| [Public Papers: Special Message to the Senate Transmitting Conventions and Recommendations of the International Labor Conference] | ||
| Honorable William A. Ayres, Federal Trade Commission (Mr. Connelly made this at the direction of the President) | ||
| Honorable Mark F. Ethridge, United States Representative on the Balkan Commission (To report on his trip) | ||
| Honorable S. Pinkney Tuck, U. S. Ambassador to Egypt (In the United States and has asked through Protocol Division, to call on the President.) | ||
| (William L. Mox) (Called Mr. Connelly from New York Friday stating he would be passing through on way to Chicago. Will come to see Mr. Connelly and see the President, off record) | ||
| The Secretary of State [George C. Marshall] (Usual Monday appointment) | ||
| (Cabinet Luncheon - Absent were: Secretary of Commerce, Secretary of Treasury, Secretary of War.) | ||
| (Max Lowenthal) (Hon. Charles Murphy) | ||
| Executive Orders: [9868 APPOINTMENT OF MEMBERS OF A MILITARY TRIBUNAL ESTABLISHED FOR THE TRIAL AND PUNISHMENT OF MAJOR WAR CRIMINALS IN GERMANY] | ||
| [Public Papers: Special Message to the Senate Transmitting a Convention of the International Labor Conference] | ||
| Congressman Brent Spence, Ky. (Phoned Mr. Connelly to ask for this - wishes to discuss Rent Control Bill with the President) | ||
| Congressman Mike Mansfield, Mont. (Phoned Mr. Connelly last week for this) | ||
| Honorable Ingram M. Stainback, Governor of Hawaii (Asked to see the President as soon as possible) | ||
| Senator James O. Eastland, Miss. Senator Burnet R. Maybank, S. C. Senator John J. Sparkman, Ala. Senator James P. Kem, Missouri (Senator Eastland phoned Mr. Connelly yesterday to ask if they might see the President, stating that after their call here they intended calling caucus of 28 cotton senators, as they feel "The War Department ran out on a fair agreement they made with us".) | ||
| Mr. E. F. Harloff, Publicity Chairman, America's Cavalcade of Freedom, 1947 Michael Dene Condatore, aged three and one-half yrs. (To present the President with ticket to Washington's Fourth of July fireworks display and have him pose for picture, as he did last year. Their budget for this program is $13,500 and it is necessary that they sell seats to raise this amount, so need the publicity.) | ||
| Honorable Burton Y. Berry, American Representative in Rumania (Asked for this through Protocol Division to report to the President briefly on recent developments in Rumania. The State Department in asking for this, said, "The Department feels that it might be useful for the President and for us politically in Rumania as moral support to friendly elements in that country, through the indication of the President's continuing interest in the situation there if the President can find time to see Mr. Berry within the next few days) | ||
| Honorable Albert F. Nufer, the American Ambassador to El Salvador (Newly appointed and wishes to pay respects before departing for his post.) | ||
| Honorable Spruille Braden, Assistant Secretary of State (Phoned Mr. Connelly for this, as he wishes to say "goodbye" to the President) | ||
| The President presented the International Aviation Trophy of the Ligue Internationale Des Aviateurs to Major Alexander P. de Seversky, American aeronautical engineer and pilot. The following guests were present: Major and Mrs. Alexander de Seversky Honorable and Mrs. Robert P. Patterson, Secretary of War Honorable Julius A. Krug, Secretary of the Interior Honorable and Mrs. C. Girard Davidson, Assistant Secretary of Interior Honorable Robert H. Jackson, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, and Mrs. Jackson Honorable Sam Roseman, of New York Lt. General and Mrs. Hoyt S. Vandenberg, USA Lt. General James H. Doolittle, USA, (Ret.) Air Marshall R. V. Goddard, RAF Major General and Mrs. George C. McDonald, USA Major General and Mrs. Patrick Partridge, USA Major General Grandison Gardner, USA Brigadier General Simms, USA, representing the Asst. Sec. of War Brigadier General Alden Crawford, USA Major General Curtis E. LeMay, USA Mr. Tom Compere, Secretary-General, Ligue Internationale des Aviateurs Mr. Albert I. Lodwick of Lakeland, Florida Mr. Swance Taylor, Washington Major General and Mrs. Louis Norstad, USA Mr. and Mrs. Alphonse Landa, of Washington Lieutenant General Lawton Collins | ||
| (Lunch) | ||
| (Mr. Max Lowenthal) (Honorable Charles Murphy) (Mr. George Washington) (Came through East Entrance) | ||
| Honorable Paul M. Herzog, Chairman, National Labor Relations Board Honorable John M. Houston, Member, NLRB Honorable James J. Reynolds, Jr., Member, NLRB (The President invited them to come and see him) | ||
| The Secretary of the Treasury [John W. Snyder] | ||
| (Former Senator James W. Huffman, Ohio) | ||
| Congressman Harold D. Cooley, N. C. (Phoned Mr. Connelly for this, stating he wished to talk to the President about very important matter) | ||
| Honorable Mary T. Norton, N. J. (Asked Mr. Connelly for this) | ||
| Senator Wayne Morse, Oregon (Phoned Mr. Connelly yesterday to ask for this) | ||
| The Secretary of War [Robert P. Patterson] Honorable Kenneth Royall, the Under Secretary of War Major General Curtis LeMay (The Secretary of War called Mr. Connelly yesterday to ask for this appointment) | ||
| (Mr. Martin A. Lewis, Jr., of Springfield, Ill) (Asked for this originally back in May - came to see Mr. Connelly and saw the President,off the record.) | ||
| (General Dwight D. Eisenhower) | ||
| Honorable Keen Johnson, Under Secretary of Labor (Called Mr. Connelly re this) | ||
| Honorable Prentice Cooper, American Ambassador to Peru (Asked to pay respects before returning to his post) | ||
| Mr. Clark Griffith with his niece, Mrs. Neal, and her two sons | ||
| H. E. Alexander Loudon, the Ambassador of the Netherlands (Is retiring and is coming in to say "goodbye") | ||
| (Mr. Jack Hofmann, of Baltimore, Md) (Mr. Marshay) (Old friend of the President - will come to see Mr. Connelly and see the President, off the record.) |