March 4th, 1940

Transcript

Times Log Location Source

12:00am

Letter drafted to Fed. Reserve Chmn. Marriner S. Eccles

White House

PRI

10:22am –

11:10am

FDR and ER to services at St. John's Church accompanied by Harry L. Hopkins, Stephen T. Early, Gen. Edwin M. Watson, Capt. Daniel Callaghan, Grace G. Tully

White House

USH, STE, TU

11:38am

To Office

White House

USH

11:45am

Treasury Sec. Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Treasury U Sec. Daniel W. Bell, Fed. Reserve Chmn. Marriner S. Eccles, Lauchlin Currie (Adm. Asst.)

Office

STE, TU, PAI

1:05pm

Returned from Office

Office

USH

1:10pm –

2:00pm

(luncheon) Household, ER, Mrs. Gibson, Mrs. Laidlaw, Interior Sec. Harold L. Ickes, Mrs. Gould, Miss Malvina Thompson

Note: Tully's log and President's Appointment Index have lunch at 1300 with Sec. Ickes

White House

USH

2:00pm

To Office

White House

USH

3:00pm

Sec. of State Cordell Hull

Office

STE, TU, PAI

6:35pm

Returned from Office via Doctor's office

office

USH

7:55pm –

12:20am

To Cabinet Dinner at Carlton Hotel, Washington, given by Mrs. Cordell Hull; with ER, Capt. Daniel Callaghan, and Mrs. James Roosevelt, Sr.

Note: Cabinet Dinner ended 12:20 a.m. the following morning. Retired at 2:50 a.m. the following morning

White House

USH, STE, TU, PAI

ER

Returned at 0805. In Washington, DC for rest of day

USH

Houseguest

Mrs. Louis M. Howe (arr. 7:20), Dr. and Mrs. Peabody (arr. 8:08, dep. 2:32), Rev. and Mrs. Hank Wilson (dep. 3:30)

USH

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

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