May 14th, 1943

Transcript

Times Log Location Source

1:40am

Retired from previous day

White House

USH

11:00am

To Office

White House

USH

11:05am

Press Conf. PC#896 (FDR)

Office

STE, TU

11:20am

(Elmer Davis)

Office

STE, PAI

1:05pm

Returned from Office

Office

USH

1:07pm –

2:10pm

(lunch) Prime Min. Winston S. Churchill, Field Marshall Sir Archibald Wavell, Harry L. Hopkins

White House (Study)

USH, PAI

2:10pm –

4:10pm

British Prime Min. Winston S. Churchill, Harry L. Hopkins, Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Peirse, Adm. Sir Dudley Pound, Adm. Sir James Somerville, Lt. Gen. Sir Hastings Ismay, Field Marshal Sir John Dill, Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Portal, Gen. Sir Alan Brooke, Field Marshal Wavell, Brig. Gen. John R. Deane, Adm. Ernest J. King, Gen. George C. Marshall, Lt. Gen. Joseph T. McNarney, Gen. Claire L. Chennault, Adm. William D. Leahy, Lt. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell

White House (Study)

STE, USH, FR, PAI

4:05pm

To Doctor's office.

White House

USH

4:23pm

Motoring to "Shangri-La", accompanied by Prime Min. Winston S. Churchill, Lord Beaverbrook, Harry L. Hopkins, Comdr. Thompson, Mr. Rowan, Mr. Kenna

White House

USH

ER

Returned from New York, NY in early afternoon, In Washington, DC except for a motoring trip to "Shangri-La"

USH

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

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