May 21st, 1943

Transcript

Times Log Location Source

10:43am

To Office

White House

USH

10:50am

Press Conf. PC#898 (FDR)

Office

PC, STE, TU

11:30am

Sir William and Lady Beveridge

Office

STE, TU, PAI

12:00pm

China Foreign Min. Dr. T. V. Soong

Office

STE, TU, PAI

12:30pm

Canadian Prime Min. William L. Mackenzie King

Office

STE, PAI

1:05pm

Returned from Office

Office

STE

1:15pm

Daniel J. Tobin

Note: Unsure of time

Office

STE, PAI

1:25pm

Returned from Office

Office

USH

1:25pm –

2:15pm

(lunch) Prime Min. Winston S. Churchill, Harry L. Hopkins

White House

STE, TU, USH, PAI

2:00pm

Cabinet

Note: Time inconsistent w/ previous entry

Office

STE, TU

2:15pm

To Office

White House

USH

4:30pm

(Assoc. Justice James F. Byrnes)

Office

STE, PAI

5:05pm –

6:25pm

Combined Chiefs of Staff: Prime Min. Winston S. Churchill, Adm. Sir Dudley Pound, Adm. Sir James Somerville, Lt. Gen. Sir Hastings Ismay, Field Marshal Sir John Dill, Air Marshal Sir Charles Portal, Gen. Sir Alan Brooke, Harry L. Hopkins, Adm. William D. Leahy, Gen. George C. Marshall, Lt. Gen. Joseph T. McNarney, Brig. Gen. John R. Deane, Brig. E. C. Jacob, Adm. Ernest J. King

White House

STE, USH, FR, PAI

6:30pm

Returned from Office to Doctor's office

White House

STE, USH

7:45pm –

9:00pm

(dinner) Dorothy Brady

White House

USH

9:00pm –

11:20pm

Movies - "Mission to Moscow"

White House

USH

ER

Returned from New York, NY in the morning, In Washington, DC

USH

Houseguest

Mr. and Mrs. Hopkins (left 3:30), Miss Macy, Mrs. Ludington, and Miss Potter (left 3:30), Mrs. Curtin Winson and Billy Roosevelt (arr. 6:10)

USH

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

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