May 21st, 1941

Transcript

Times Log Location Source

11:00am

Agriculture Sec. Claude R. Wickard, Rep. Clarence Cannon (MO)

Note: Conflict with usher's log

Office

STE, TU, PAI

11:25am

To Office

White House

USH

11:30am

Norman Davis (Chrmn. Am. Red Cross)

Office

STE, TU

11:45am

Leon Henderson, David Ginsburg, Wayne Coy

Office

STE, TU, PAI

1:00pm

(lunch) James H. Rowe, Jr. (Admin. Asst.)

Note: The Tully Diary mentions a lunch in honor of Dr. Enrique Ruiz-Guinazu the new Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Argentine. Neither the Usher's Diary or Stenographer's Diary mention this.

Office

STE, PAI

3:20pm

Returned from Office

White House

USH

7:30pm

(dinner - bedroom) Elliott Roosevelt

White House

USH

9:00pm

Newspaper Dance, 2050 guests invited, 1661 attended. FDR and ER received in Blue Room

White House

USH

9:55pm

To Apartments

White House

USH

10:30pm

Retired

White House

USH

ER

Returned to White House at 3:45. In Washington, DC the rest of the day.

USH

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

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