May 1st, 1936

Transcript

Times Log Location Source

12:25am

Retired from previous day

White House

USH

10:30am

To Office

White House

USH

10:35am

Press Conf. PC #291 (together with foreign press correspondents and scientific editors and writers)

Office

PC, STE, TU

10:45am

Members of Association of Foreign Press Correspondents

Office

TU

10:50am

Scientific editors and writers

Office

TU

11:00am

TVA Dir. David E. Lilienthal

Office

STE, TU

11:15am

Sen. Joseph T. Robinson

Office

STE, TU

11:30am

William H. Hornibrook (returning Minister to Persia)

Office

STE, TU

11:45am

Agriculture Sec. Henry A. Wallace, Howard Tolley

Office

STE, TU

12:15pm

Robert Fechner

Office

STE, TU

12:30pm

Sec. Phillips and Francis Bowes Sayre

Office

STE

12:45pm

Walter Cummings

Office

STE, TU

1:00pm

(lunch) Felix Frankfurter

Office

STE, TU

2:00pm

Rep. Cannon

Office

STE, TU

2:05pm

Guernsey Cross

Office

STE, TU

4:30pm

Returned from Office

White House

USH

4:30pm

Newly accredited Bulgarian Minister presented credentials

White House

STE, USH, TU

4:45pm

Newly accredited Venezuelan Minister presented credentials

White House

STE, USH, TU

5:30pm

Greeted 346 members of the American Council of Education in State Dining Room

White House

USH

5:50pm –

6:40pm

To pool

White House

USH

7:45pm –

11:20pm

(dinner) ER, Maj. Walker, Dean Russell, Carl Lawson, Jame Bourne, Mrs. W. D. Robbins, G. Hall Roosevelt, Household

White House

USH

11:55pm

Retired

White House

USH

ER

In Washington, DC

USH

Houseguest

Col. and Mrs. Frederic Greene (dep. 9:45), Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Adolph (arr. 4:25)

USH

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

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