January 22nd, 1940

Transcript

Times Log Location Source

10:00am –

11:15am

VP John Nance Garner, Sen. Alben W. Barkley (KY), Spkr. William B. Bankhead, Rep. Sam T. Rayburn (TX)

White House

STE, USH, TU, PAI

11:00am

Rep. Melvin J. Maas (MN)

Note: Office arrival and scheduled meeting conflict

Office

STE, TU, PAI

11:15am

Budget Dir. Harold D. Smith, Charles W. Eliot, re appropriations for National Resources Committee

Note: Office arrival and scheduled meeting conflicts

Office

STE, TU, PAI

11:20am

To Office

White House

USH

11:30am

Bishop John F. O'Hara (Notre Dame Univ.)

Office

STE, TU, PAI

12:05pm

To Capitol with ER to attend funeral services for Sen. William E. Borah

White House

USH, STE, TU

1:05pm

To Office

Washington, DC

USH

1:15pm

(lunch) Treasury Sec. Henry Morgenthau, Jr.

Office

STE, TU, PAI

3:30pm

Simon Rubel (Corinth, MS), re Turkish stamps

Office

STE, PAI

4:15pm

(James Rowe)

Office

STE, PAI

7:28pm

Returned from Office via pool and doctor

Office

USH

7:48pm –

8:58pm

(dinner) Household, Treasury Sec. and Mrs. Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Capt. Waddell, A. Dombush

White House

USH

11:05pm

Retired

White House

USH

ER

In Washington, DC

USH

Houseguest

John Sargent (arr. 8:10, dep. 1200), Mrs. Greene (dep. 9:30), Mr. and Mrs. Cutter (dep. 9:30), Mrs. and Miss Cotsworth (dep. 9:58), Mrs. Grenville Emmet (arr. 4:45)

USH

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

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