April 26th, 1939

Transcript

Times Log Location Source

12:00am

Proclamation No. 2331

White House

PP

12:00am

Letter to Amb. William C. Bullitt in Moscow, USSR

White House

PRI

12:00am

Memorandum to Sec. of State Cordell Hull

White House

PRI

10:00am –

10:15am

FDR addressed Conference on Children in a Democracy in East Room - (Broadcast - all systems) 453 invited, 417 atended

White House

STE, USH, TU

10:40am –

11:10am

Sec. of Interior Int. Sec. Harold L. Ickes

White House

STE, USH, TU

10:45am

Rep. James Scrughan

Note: conflict with "to Office" time

Office

STE, TU

11:00am

Vincent Dailey (NY)

Note: Conflict with " to Office" time

Office

STE, TU

11:12am

To Office

White House

USH

11:25am

Presentation of telegraph key by Bruce B. Allen, District Superintendant., representing R. B. White, President of Western Union

Office

STE, TU

11:30am

Press telegraph key - Opening Golden Spike Celebration at Omaha, NE (Still Pictures)

Office

TU, STE

11:40am

Judge Ben B. Lindsey

Office

STE, TU

11:50am

Sen. Scott W. Lucas and Sen. James M. Slattery

Office

STE, TU

12:00pm

War Sec. Harry H. Woodring

Office

STE, TU

12:15pm

Rep. Jed J. Johnson (OK), Rep. Phil Ferguson, Rep. Harold D. Cooley

Office

STE, TU

1:00pm

(lunch) Budget Dir. Harold D. Smith and Louis Brownlow

Office

STE, TU

6:40pm

Returned from Office via pool

White House

USH

7:30pm

(dinner) Household

White House

USH

8:25pm –

10:15pm

Toi Bachelder, (Steno)

White House

USH

10:43pm

To Union Station enroute to Hyde Park, NY, with Marguerite A. LeHand, Stephen T. Early, Gen. Edwin M. Watson, Adm. Ross T. McIntire, Capt. Daniel J. Callaghan, William D. Hassett, Grace G. Tully, Henry M. Kannee, Miss Roberta Barrows, Miss Louise Hachmeister, George A. Fox, Dewey E. Long, Leo A. de Waard, H. G. Crim, R. W. Linaka

White House

USH, STE, TU, TRP

11:55pm

Leave Washington, DC via Baltimore and Ohio Railway

Washington, DC

DI, TRP

ER

In Washington, DC. Left for New York, NY at 2347

USH

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

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