May 27th, 1942

Transcript

Times Log Location Source

10:45am

(Walter Teagle)

Note: Time conflict - Usher's Diary shows FDR going to his office at 1047.

Office

STE, TU, PAI

10:47am

To Office

White House

USH

11:00am

Irwin Steingut

Office

STE, TU, PAI

11:15am

Dean William F. Russell, Brig. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, Dr. John W. Studebaker

Office

STE, TU, PAI

11:30am

Pacific War Council: British Amb. Lord Halifax, Canadian Min. Leighton McCarthy, Netherlands Min. Dr. A. Loudon, New Zealand Min. Walter Nash, Arthur V. S. Smith (Australia), Chinese Min. Dr. T. V. Soong, Harry L. Hopkins

Office

STE, TU, PAI

1:00pm

(lunch) Louis Johnson

Office

STE, TU, PAI

2:00pm

Gen. George C. Marshall

Office

STE, TU, PAI

2:20pm

(Mrs. Dix Forbes)

Note: President's Appointment Index shows Mrs. Alexander Forbes. Same person?

Office

TU

3:00pm

Edward A. Tamm, Solicitor Gen. Charles Fahy

Note: Name of the first attendee is not clear in the Stenographer's Diary. President's Appointment Index has name spelled "Tann"

Office

STE, TU, PAI

7:10pm

Returned from Office via Doctor's office

Office

USH

7:30pm

(dinner) Harry L. Hopkins

White House

USH

11:15pm

Retired

White House

USH

ER

In New York, NY

USH

Houseguest

Harry L. Hopkins (arr. 7:30), Mrs. Eliot Pratt and Pvt. Joseph Lash (arr 6:50)

USH

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

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