February 17th, 1937

Transcript

Times Log Location Source

10:30am –

10:45am

(J. Lionberger Davis)

Note: Conflicts with time of leaving White House

Office

STE, TU

10:40am –

10:50am

William A. Johnson (former slave) - FDR presented walking cane

White House

STE, TU

10:45am –

11:00am

Chair. John G. Winant

Note: Time conflicts slightly with time of leaving White House

Office

STE, TU

10:50am

To Office

White House

USH

11:00am –

11:15am

Rep. Maury Maverick

Office

STE, TU

11:15am –

11:30am

Rep. Emanuel Celler

Office

STE, TU

11:30am –

11:45am

Gov. Paul V. McNutt with Chancellor Ernest Lindley and Dean R. A. Stevenson

Office

STE, TU

11:45am –

12:00pm

Minister of the Netherlands, Prof. Vening Meinesz and C. J. W. Van Waning (Capt. of Submarine)

Office

STE, TU

12:00pm

Sec. Claude A. Swanson and Adm. Adolphus Andrews

Office

STE, TU

12:45pm –

1:00pm

(Cliff Scott and family) (Frank Duffy)

Office

STE, TU

1:00pm –

2:00pm

(lunch) Cordell Hull

Office

STE, TU

2:00pm

Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Gov. Marriner S. Eccles, Chair. James M. Landis, Herman Oliphant and Roswell Magill

Note: This meeting was apparently originally scheduled at 12:30 P.M. and moved to 2:00 P.M.

Office

STE, TU

6:20pm

Returned from White House via pool

Note: Usher diary notes Mr and Mrs Hambly and two daughters arrived to swim and stay for dinner, 5:00 P.M.

White House

USH

7:00pm –

9:55pm

(dinner) Mr. and Mrs. James Roosevelt, Mr. and Mrs. Littleton C. F. Hambley and the Misses Hambly

White House

USH

11:00pm

Retired

White House

USH

Houseguest

Bishop Spellman (left 10:10)

USH

USH = White House Usher's Diary, STE = Stenographer's Diary, PC = Press Conference, TU = Tully's Appointment Diary

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