Daily Appointments of Harry S. Truman
June 04, 1945
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.
| The Secretary of the Navy [James Forrestal]; Mr. Walter G. Dunnington; Mr. Paul V. Shields | ||
| Judge Robert N. Wilkins | ||
| Arthur Bliss Lane, American Ambassador to Poland | ||
| Mr. Marvin Katz; Mr. Michael Katz (from Kansas City to pay respects) | ||
| Col. Ernest Gibson; Brig. Gen. Carter W. Clarke | ||
| (Lunch) | ||
| Sen. Millard E. Tydings | ||
| Congr. Clinton Anderson | ||
| Mr. Theodore Gamble; Mr. Joe Rosenthal; Mr. Felix de Weldon; Col. E. R. Hagenah | ||
| (Show in East Room by Olsen, of Olsen & Johnson Show, Attended by the President, Group from Senate, and White House Staff) | ||
| Executive Orders: [9565 AUTHORIZING THE PETROLEUM ADMINISTRATOR TO TAKE POSSESSION OF AND OPERATE THE PLANTS AND FACILITIES AT THE CABIN CREEK OIL FIELD OF THE PURE OIL COMPANY LOCATED AT DAWES, WEST VIRGINIA (1)] | ||
| Executive Orders: [9564 AUTHORIZING THE PETROLEUM ADMINISTRATOR TO TAKE POSSESSION OF AND OPERATE THE PLANTS AND FACILITIES OF THE HUMBLE OIL AND REFINING COMPANY LOCATED IN INGLESIDE, TEXAS (1)] | ||
| Executive Orders: [9566 REVOCATION OF EXECUTIVE ORDER 9090 OF MARCH 6, 1942, ESTABLISHING AN AIRSPACE RESERVATION OVER PORTIONS OF ULSTER AND DUTCHESS COUNTIES, NEW YORK] | ||
| [Public Papers: Letter to the Chairman, House Rules Committee, Concerning the Committee on Fair Employment Practice] | ||
| Congr. James W. Trimble, Ark. | ||
| Sen. H. Alexander Smith, N.J. | ||
| Hon. Lee Hill (Industrial Member of War Labor Board, to pay respects and thank the President for appointment) | ||
| Hon. Joseph C. Grew; Gen. Julius Holmes; Hon. William L. Clayton; Hon. Stokeley W. Morgan; Hon. Wm. A. M. Burden; Hon. L. Welch Pogue | ||
| Hon. Nelson Smith (of Federal Power Commission to thank the President for reappointing him) | ||
| Hon. Harold Smith | ||
| Hon. Eugene Lorton | ||
| The Secretary of the Interior [Harold L. Ickes] | ||
| (Lunch) | ||
| Congr. Clifford Davis, Tenn.; Hon. Walter Chandler, Mayor of Memphis | ||
| Mrs. Ida Lee Starling (Widow of Col. Ed. Starling, former head of Secret Service at the White House) | ||
| (Julius F. Pitassey, of James W. Bell & Co. tailors, New York, to fit suit) | ||
| Hon. Joseph C. Grew; Hon. Joseph E. Davies; (Hon. James F. Byrnes); Adm. William D. Leahy | ||
| Col. Bernard Bernstein | ||
| Hon. Joseph C. Grew | ||
| Congr. Luther Johnson, Texas | ||
| Congr. C. W. Bishop, Chairman of Congressional Lions Committee, including: Speaker Sam Rayburn; Congr. Oven [Oren] Harris, Ark.; Congr. Ralph Rizle, Okla.; Congr. Jesse T. Wolcott, Mich.; Congr. Orville Zimmerman, Mo.; Congr. Walt Horan, Wash.; Congr. Samuel A. Weiss, Pa.; Congr. Jennings Randolph, W. Va.; Cong. William C. Cole, Mo. | ||
| The Secretary of War [Henry L. Stimson] | ||
| The Secretary of the Treasury [Henry Morgenthau, Jr.] | ||
| Col. J. Monroe Johnson | ||
| The Secretary of Commerce [Henry A. Wallace]; Hon. John W. Snyder; Members of Executive Committee of Business Advisory Council for the Department of Commerce: Thomas B. McCabe; John L. Collyer; Ralph E. Flanders; G. M. Humphrey; Harrison Jones; Ernest Kanzler; Paul B. McKee; Robert L. Mehornay; Robert H. Patchin; H. W. Prentis, Jr.; James W. Young; Walter White | ||
| Mr. John Frye | ||
| Hon. Laurence A. Steinhardt, American Ambassador to Czechoslovakia (to say goodbye before leaving for post) | ||
| Mr. Arthur Koontz, Democratic National Committeeman from W. Va. | ||
| Sen. Scott Lucas, Ill.; Mayor Edw. J. Kelly, Chicago | ||
| (Mr. George Creel) (to get material on article on Independence) | ||
| Mrs. Eugene Meyer (to present report which she and staff of 25 experts have drawn up on government, health, education, etc.) | ||
| Mr. Roy Cherry | ||
| (Lunch) | ||
| Hon. Robert E. Hannegan | ||
| (Mr. George Creel) | ||
| Hon. Joseph C. Grew; Hon. John McCloy, Asst. Sec. of War | ||
| At the White House: (Mr. and Mrs. John Boettiger and son John) | ||
| Assoc. Justice Robert Jackson, U.S. Supreme Court | ||
| [Public Papers: Letter to the Director, Office of Defense Transportation, Concerning Redeployment of the Armed Forces] | ||
| [Public Papers: Statement by the President on the Transportation Problem] | ||
| [Public Papers: Letter to General William S. Knudsen on His Retirement From Active Duty] | ||
| Sen. Walter F. George | ||
| Mr. Robert L. Mehornay, Pres. North Mehornay Furniture Co. and Member of the Executive Committee of Business Advisory Council for the Department of Commerce | ||
| Hon. Clyde L. Herring and son (Son just back from Germany where he was in prison camp) | ||
| Hon. L. Welch Pogue, Civil Aeronautics Board | ||
| Hon. Stewart McDonald | ||
| Hon. O. Max Gardner | ||
| Dr. John Vaughn, of Tahlequah, Oklahoma | ||
| Hon. William Green, President, A.F. of L. | ||
| Hon. Philip Murray, President, C.I.O. | ||
| Hon. H. H. Kung | ||
| Gov. Ransome J. Williams, S.C.; Mr. E. W. Cantwell; Mr. Jefferson Griffith | ||
| Associate Justice Hugo L. Black, U.S. Supreme Court | ||
| Mr. Alfred C. Fuller, Pres. Manufacturers Assn. of Conn. | ||
| (Lunch) | ||
| Gen. Frank T. Hines | ||
| Gen. Carl Spaatz | ||
| Mr. E. Arnold Sunstrom | ||
| Press and Radio Conference [Public Papers] | ||
| Gen. George C. Marshall; Gen. Omar Bradley | ||
| Executive Orders: [9568 PROVIDING FOR THE RELEASE OF SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION] | ||
| Executive Orders: [9567 AMENDING EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 9095, AS AMENDED BY EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 9193, TO DEFINE FURTHER THE FUNCTIONS AND DUTIES OF THE ALIEN PROPERTY CUSTODIAN WITH RESPECT TO PROPERTY OF GERMANY AND JAPAN AND NATIONALS THEREOF] | ||
| [Public Papers: Statement by the President on the Forthcoming Visit of President Rios of Chile] | ||
| Congr. George E. Outland, Calif. (re Unemployment Bill) | ||
| Col. Burris Jackson | ||
| The President presented Distinguished Service Medal posthumously to Maj. Gen. Edwin M. Watson, with the following present: Mrs. Edwin M. Watson; The Secretary of War [Henry L. Stimson]; Gen. George C. Marshall; Gen. and Mrs. Warner McCabe; Mrs. Anna Boettiger; Mr. Edw. Nash; Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt; Miss E. V. Nash; Justice and Mrs. Felix Frankfurter; Justice and Mrs. Robert Jackson; Hon. and Mrs. Frank Walker; Judge and Mrs. Samuel Rosenman; Col. B. W. Davenport; Col. Frank McCarty; Hon. B. M. Baruch; Hon. George T. Summerlin; Hon. Stanley Woodward; White House Staff [Public Papers] | ||
| Mr. Clark Eichelberger | ||
| Mrs. Tom Stark; Maj. George O. True | ||
| Congr. John W. McCormack; Congr. Thad F. Wesielewski, Wisc.; Congr. Andrew J. Biemiller, Wisc. | ||
| Congr. Eugene Worley, Texas | ||
| Dr. Frank P. Graham, Chancellor of University of N.C. (to persuade him to accept appointment as Chief of Education and Religious Affairs Section in Control Council for Germany, which is wish of War and State Departments) | ||
| Hon. Bernard M. Baruch | ||
| H.E. Hon. Henri Bonnet, Ambassador of France; Hon. Joseph C. Grew | ||
| Commander Milton D. Cohn; Mr. Omar Ketchum; Col. John Thos. Taylor | ||
| Committee of Elks: Dr. Robert S. Barrett; Hon. Jas. R. Nicholson; Hon. Jas. T. Hallinan; Hon. David Sholtz; Hon. Raymond Benjamin; Hon. Jos. B. Kyle; Mr. Emilio Desvernine; Mr. Milton R. Greenland | ||
| (Lunch) Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt; Mrs. Edwin M. Watson | ||
| Cabinet | ||
| Secretary of the Navy [James Forrestal]; Sen. David I. Walsh; Congr. Carl Vinson; Fleet Adm. William D. Leahy; Fleet Adm. King; Admiral Edwards; Adm. Horne; Vice Adm. Cooke; Rear Adm. Burrough; Captain Taylor; Lillian Dennison | ||
| Hon. Harold D. Smith | ||
| [Public Papers: Statement by the President on Paper Conservation] | ||
| Directors of the American Society of Newspaper Editors: John S. Knight, Pres. Knight Newspapers; Mr. Wilbur Forrest, 1st V. P. New York Herald Tribune; Mr. Nathaniel R. Howard, 2nd V. P. Cleveland News; Mr. Dwight Young, Sec., Dayton Herald and Journal; Mr. David Lawrence, Treas., U.S. News; Mr. Erwin D. Canham, Christian Science Monitor; Mr. W. S. Gilmore, Detroit News; Mr. Alexander F. Jones, Washington Post; Mr. Dwight Marvin, Troy Record; Mr. Ben M. McKelway, Washington Star; Mr. Tom Wallace, Louisville Times; Mr. Basil L. Walters, Knight Newspapers; Dr. Julian S. Miller, Charlotte Observer; Mr. Carl Ackerman, Dean of Col. School of Journalism; Mr. Ralph McGill, Atlanta Constitution | ||
| Dr. Hugh S. Cummings, former Surgeon Gen. of the U.S. and now Director of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau and President of the International Health Office (pay respects) | ||
| Mr. Carter W. Atkins, Exec. Dir. Conn. Public Expenditure Council of Hartford (long time Missouri friend of the President); Mr. Kenneth L. Pray | ||
| Hon. Samuel D. Jackson | ||
| Hon. T. V. Soong; Hon. Jos. C. Grew | ||
| Maj. Gen. Clarence R. Huebner | ||
| Mr. Leo Parker | ||
| Mr. W. Stuart Symington | ||
| Mr. Don Miller | ||
| Went aboard USS POTOMAC |