February 12th, 1937

Transcript

Times Log Location Source

1:08am

Retired from previous day

White House

USH

9:15am –

9:50am

Henry Morgenthau, Jr.

White House

USH

10:30am –

11:00am

Press Conf. PC#344

Note: Slight time conflict with leaving White House

Office

STE, TU, PC

10:40am

To Office

Note: Slight time conflict with first office appointment

White House

USH

11:00am –

11:15am

Chair. John H. Fahey

Office

STE, TU

11:15am –

11:30am

Sen's.Kenneth McKellar and Nathan I. Bachman

Office

STE, TU

11:30am –

11:45am

William P. Wharton

Office

STE, TU

11:45am

Owen Johnson

Office

STE, TU

12:15pm –

12:35pm

To Lincoln Memorial, Washington, DC to lay wreath

Washington, DC

STE, TU, USH

1:00pm –

2:00pm

(lunch) Cordell Hull and Rep. Sam D. McReynolds

Office

STE, TU

2:00pm

Cabinet

Office

STE, TU

5:00pm –

5:15pm

Returned from Office to meet with seven ministers

Note: Appointment books list this meeting at 4:40 P.M. and tea with Spkr Bankhead et al at 5:00 P.M. ER apparently attended this tea in place of FDR

White House

STE, TU, USH

5:50pm –

6:45pm

To pool

White House

USH

7:45pm –

9:05pm

(dinner) ER, Household, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Beinecke, James Roosevelt, George McGuire and Bruce Gould

White House

USH

11:45pm

Retired

White House

USH

ER

In Washington, DC

USH

Houseguest

Mr. Astor (left 8:40 am), Mr. and Mrs. Lynch and children and maid (arr. 6:30), Mr. and Mrs. Looker and two children and nurse (arr. 8:40), Maj. Harry Hooker (arr. 5:00)

USH

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

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