February 16th, 1937

Transcript

Times Log Location Source

12:05am

Retired from previous day

White House

USH

10:30am

To Office

White House

USH

10:30am –

10:45am

Sec. Henry A. Wallace

Office

STE, TU

10:45am –

10:55am

Mayor Edward J. Kelly and Mr. Nash

Office

STE, TU

10:55am –

11:00am

Scott Leavitt (Comdr.-in-Chief of Spanish War Veterans) and Alfred J. Kennedy

Office

STE, TU

11:00am –

11:15am

Rep. Arthur W. Mitchell

Office

STE, TU

11:15am –

11:30am

Rep. William M. Whittington

Office

STE, TU

11:30am –

12:00pm

Gov. Paul V. McNutt

Office

STE, TU

12:00pm –

12:15pm

Asst. Sec. R. Walton Moore and former Rep. Colgate W. Darden, Jr.

Office

STE, TU

12:15pm –

12:30pm

Fred I. Kent

Office

STE, TU

12:30pm –

1:00pm

Rep. Clarence F. Lea

Office

STE, TU

1:00pm –

2:00pm

(lunch) Frank C. Walker

Office

STE, TU

2:00pm –

2:10pm

Sen. Prentiss M. Brown, Edmund C. Shields (Democratic National Committeeman, Mich.) Murray B. Van Wagoner and Don Kennedy (Michigan Highway Commissioner)

Office

STE, TU

2:10pm

(William M. Thatcher, George Harrison, et al)

Office

STE, TU

4:00pm

Press Conf. PC#345

Office

STE, TU, PC

6:00pm

Returned from Office

White House

USH

7:45pm –

11:00pm

(dinner) Household and Commr. and Mrs. Goerge Allen

White House

USH

11:15pm

Retired

White House

USH

ER

In Washington, DC , left for Cornell University by auto in the afternoon.

USH

Houseguest

John Roosevelt (left 9:40am) Mr. Hooker (left 10:30), Bishop Spellman (arr. 1:25), Mrs. Louis M. Howe (left 2:30), Miss Lorena Hickok (left 4:20)

USH

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

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