July 21st, 1942

Transcript

Times Log Location Source

12:30pm

Peruvian Amb. Don Manuel de Freyre y Santander, Fernando Carbajal

Note: The schedule attached to the Usher's Time conflict - Usher's Diary shows FDR returning from Shangri-La at 1232. Sheet attached to Usher's Diary shows Cordell Hull at 1235. Sten. Diary shows no entry for Cordell Hull.

Office

STE, USH, TU, PAI

12:32pm

Returned from "Shangri-La"; then to Office

White House

USH

12:35pm

Sec. of State Cordell Hull

Office

PAI

1:00pm

(lunch) Donald Nelson

Office

STE, TU, PAI

2:00pm

Australian Min. Sir Owen Dixon, Sir Earle Page

Office

STE, TU, PAI

2:15pm

(George Summerlin)

Office

STE, TU, PAI

2:20pm

Wayne Coy

Office

STE, TU, PAI

4:05pm

Press Conf. PC#836 (FDR)

Note: Admiral Leahy's appointment as Chief of Staff to the Commander in Chief was also discussed.

Subject: Scrap Rubber

Office

PC, STE, TU

7:10pm

Returned from Office via Doctor's office

Office

USH

7:30pm

(dinner - Study) alone

White House

USH

12:00am

Retired

White House

USH

ER

Returned from Ashville, NC in the morning, In Washington, DC

USH

Houseguest

Miss Lorena Hickok (arr. 7:20), Mrs. Eliot Pratt (arr. 10:30), Pvt. Joseph Lash (arr. 12:15)

USH

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

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