April 18th, 1940

Transcript

Times Log Location Source

12:00am

Letter drafted to Spkr. William B. Bankhead

White House

PP

10:40am

To Office

White House

USH

10:46am

Press Conf. # 636 (FDR, Stephen T. Early)

Office

PC, STE, TU

11:00am

Agriculture Sec. Henry A. Wallace

Office

STE, TU

11:15am

Mr. L. P. Murray, re forestry operations

Office

STE, TU, PAI

11:30am

Raymond B. Stevens (Chairm., U. S. Tariff Commission)

Note: President's Appointment Index shows this for April 17

Office

STE, TU, PAI

11:45am

Rep. Albert Thomas (TX)

Office

STE, TU, PAI

12:00pm

Members of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, including John F. Victory (Committee Secretary)

Office

STE, TU, PAI

12:10pm

War Sec. Harry H. Woodring

Office

STE, TU, PAI

12:20pm

Norman H. Davis (Chmn. American Red Cross). Report on trip to New York.

Office

STE, TU, PAI

12:30pm

David Lasser (President, Worker's Alliance of America), Frank Ingram (Sec.-Treasurer, Worker's Alliance of America)

Office

STE, TU, PAI

12:55pm

U Sec. of Agriculture Alvin J. Wirtz

Office

STE, TU, PAI

1:30pm

(lunch) Sen. Alben W. Barkley (KY)

Office

STE, TU

2:00pm

Capt. Harry Collins, Phillip Publicker

Office

STE, TU, PAI

2:05pm

Adm. Chester W. Nimitz, Asst. Navy Sec. Lewis Compton, Adm. Harold R. Stark (Chief of Naval Operations)

Office

STE, PAI

2:20pm

Budget Dir. Harold D. Smith

Office

STE, PAI

5:20pm

Returned from Office

Office

USH

6:10pm –

6:50pm

To Doctor's office

White House

USH

7:30pm

(dinner) Household, Frank C. Walker

White House

USH

9:00pm

Press Conf. # 636-A (FDR); this PC was a conference with the American Society of Newspaper Editors (152 attending)

White House

PC, STE, TU, PAI

10:53pm

To Union Station enroute to Warm Springs, GA accompanied by Marguerite A. LeHand, Ross T. McIntire

White House

USH, STE, TU

11:00pm

Leave for Warm Springs, GA, accompanied by Ross T. McIntire, Marguerite A. LeHand, Grace G. Tully, Henry M. Kannee, Capt. Daniel Callaghan, William D. Hassett, Miss Roberta Barrows, Miss Toinette Bachelder, Miss Louise Hochmeister, Mary Eben, George A. Fox, Dewey E. Long, Leo A. de Waard, Secret Service agents, Newspaper correspondents

Washington, DC

TRP

ER

In Washington, DC. Left for New York, NY at 1815.

USH

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

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