August 31st, 1942

Transcript

Times Log Location Source

10:55am

To Office

White House

USH

1:00pm

(lunch)

Office

STE, TU

2:00pm

(Atty. Gen. Francis Biddle, Agric. Sec. Claude R. Wickard, Solicitor Gen. Charles Fahy, Oscar Cox, Judge Samuel I. Rosenman, Isadore Lubin)

Office

STE, TU, PAI

3:45pm

Returned from Office

Office

USH

4:00pm –

5:30pm

To New Naval Hospital for dedicatory exercises accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Littleton C. F. Hambley, two daughters, Capt. John L. McCrea

Note: President's Appointment Index shows 1630 address "on the occasion of the centenary of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery at the Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, MD"

White House

USH

5:45pm –

7:10pm

Returned to Doctor's office

White House

USH

7:30pm –

11:25pm

(dinner - Study) Judge Samuel I. Rosenman, Robert E. Sherwood, Dorothy Brady, Grace G. Tully

White House

USH

11:30pm

Retired

White House

USH

ER

Returned from New York, NY in early evening

USH

Houseguest

W. Averell Harriman (left 7:00)

USH

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

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