January 23rd, 1942

Transcript

Times Log Location Source

1:10am

Retired from previous day

White House

USH

9:40am –

10:20am

Treasury Sec. Henry Morgenthau, Jr.

White House

USH

10:45am

To Office

White House

USH

10:50am

Press Conf. PC#800 (FDR, Stephen T. Early)

Office

PC, TU

11:00am

Wayne Johnson, Edwin Pauley, Charles Michelson

Note: Tully Diary lists this at 1130.

Office

STE, TU, PAI

11:15am

Lt. Comdr. Lyndon B. Johnson

Office

STE, TU, PAI

11:45am

(Thomas Kennedy (CIO))

Office

PAI

12:00pm

W. Averell Harriman

Office

STE, TU, PAI

12:30pm

William H. Davis

Office

STE, TU, PAI

1:00pm

(lunch) Sec. of State Cordell Hull, joined at 1355 by War Sec. Henry L. Stimson

Office

STE, USH, PAI

2:00pm

Cabinet

Office

STE, TU

5:15pm

(Mrs. Anna Rosenberg)

Office

STE, PAI

7:15pm

Returned from Office via Doctor's office

Office

USH

7:30pm –

8:30pm

(dinner) ER, Mrs. Louis McHowe, Melvyn Douglas

Note: FDR retired > midnight

White House

USH

ER

In Washington, DC, flew to Fort Worth, TX in the afternoon

USH

Houseguests

Alexander Woollcott (left 10:20)

USH

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

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