February 8th, 1939

Transcript

Times Log Location Source

1:00am

Retired from previous day

White House

USH

9:30am –

10:10am

Treasury Sec. Henry Morgenthau, Jr.

White House

USH

11:15am

Capt. Evans F. Carlson (Marine Corps)

Note: Conflict with usher's log

Office

STE, TU

11:25am

To Office

White House

USH

11:30am

Roy Howard

Office

STE, TU

11:45am

Asst. Navy Sec. Charles Edison

Office

STE, TU

12:00pm

Rep. Sol Bloom

Note: STE log has entry crossed out.

Office

STE, TU

12:15pm

Rep. Knute Hill

Office

STE, TU

12:30pm

Charles C. Pettijohn

Office

STE, TU

1:00pm

(lunch) Sen. James F. Byrnes, Col. F. C. Harrington

Office

STE, TU

2:30pm

Asst. Sec. Wayne Taylor

Note: Apparently postponed from 1245, where Tully log still has it.

Office

STE

6:15pm

Returned from Office via Doctor's office

White House

USH

6:20pm –

7:35pm

James Roosevelt

White House

USH

7:45pm –

11:55pm

(dinner) ER, Household, G. Hall Roosevelt, Dana Lamb and Mrs. Dana Lamb, Laurence Lee, Col. Roscoe Turner

White House

USH

8:30pm –

10:20pm

For movies - Gen. and Mrs. George C. Marshall, Mr. and Mrs. Mullane, Mr. and Mrs. Carneal

White House

USH

10:00pm –

10:15pm

Broadcast from the Diplomatic Reception Room - Boy Scout Program - "Radio Address on the Twenty-Ninth Anniversary of the Boy Scouts of America"

White House

PP, USH, TU

ER

In Washington, DC

USH

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

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