August 20th, 1942

Transcript

Times Log Location Source

9:10am

Returned from Hyde Park, NY accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Harry L. Hopkins

White House

USH

11:00am

Sen. James E. Murray (MT)

Note: Time conflict - Usher's Diary shows FDR going to his office at 1102.

Office

STE, TU, PAI

11:02am

To Office

White House

USH

11:15am

Jefferson Caffery

Office

STE, TU, PAI

11:45am

Sec. of State Cordell Hull

Office

STE, TU, PAI

12:45pm

(Adm. William D. Leahy)

Office

STE, TU, PAI

1:00pm

(lunch) Wendell Willkie

Office

STE, TU, PAI

2:00pm

VP Henry A. Wallace, Milo Perkins

Office

STE, TU, PAI

3:00pm

Adm. Ernest J. King, Adm. Sir Andrew Cunningham, Gen. James H. Burns, Harry L. Hopkins

Office

STE, TU, PAI

7:07pm

Returned from Office

Office

USH

8:00pm –

12:20am

(dinner) Mr. and Mrs. Harry L. Hopkins, Mrs. Anna Rosenberg

Note: Retired after midnight

White House

USH

ER

In Hyde Park, NY

USH

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

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