March 25th, 1940

Transcript

Times Log Location Source

12:00am

Letter drafted to Francis Bowes Sayre

White House

PRI

12:00am

At White House (cold)

White House

STE

12:20pm –

12:50pm

Matt Adams (President, Young Democrats)

White House

STE, USH, TU, PAI

12:50pm –

1:15pm

Interior Sec. Harold L. Ickes

White House

USH, TU, STE, PAI

1:15pm –

2:35pm

(lunch) Federal Power Commr. Leland Olds

White House

USH, STE, TU, PAI

4:45pm

To Green Parlor to await arrival of President-elect of Costa Rica and Sra. Guardia

White House

USH

5:00pm

(tea - Green Parlor) President-elect of Costa Rica and Sra. Guardia and (8)

White House

USH

5:30pm

To Apartments

White House

USH

8:00pm –

10:14pm

(dinner) President-elect of Costa Rica(40). (Dinner guests lined up on red carpet in corridor and greeted by FDR and ER; President-elect and Sra. Guardia at table opposite Red Room Door)

White House

USH

10:15pm

To Apartments

White House

USH

12:00am

Retired

White House

USH

ER

In Washington, DC

USH

Houseguest

Miss Lorena Hickok (arr. 0820); Chester Brannen, 3 children and Sonny Milholland (dep. 1615); Miss Mary Wollmer and nephew (dep. 4:25); Mrs. Herzog and children with nurse (dep. 4:45); William C. Bullitt and Anne Bullitt (arr. 5:40)

USH

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

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