May 2nd, 1940

Transcript

Times Log Location Source

1:50am

Retired from previous day

White House

USH

9:45am –

10:25am

Treasury Sec. Henry Morgenthau, Jr.

White House

USH

11:00am

Rep. A. S. Mike Monroney (OK), Rep. Albert Gore (TN)

Note: Office arrival and scheduled meeting conflict. Presidential Appointments Index has date of 5/3/1940 for this meeting

Office

STE, TU, PAI

11:18am

To Office

White House

USH

11:30am

Rep. Fred Cummings (CO)

Office

STE, TU, PAI

12:00pm

U Sec. of State Sumner Welles, Italian Amb. Don Ascanio dei Principi Colonna

Office

STE, TU, PAI

12:30pm

Navy Sec. Charles Edison, Asst. Navy Sec. Lewis Compton

Office

STE, PAI

1:00pm

(lunch) Atty. Gen. Robert H. Jackson

Office

STE, PAI

3:00pm

Motoring from Office

Office

USH

4:17pm

To Office

Washington, DC

USH

5:00pm

Robert H. Hinckley (Chairman, Civil Aeronautics Authority)

Office

STE, PAI

6:00pm

Returned from Office

Office

USH

7:30pm –

12:15am

(dinner) Household, Grace G. Tully

Note: Retired at 12:25 a.m. the following morning

White House

USH

Houseguest

Melvyn Douglas (arr. 0900, dep. 1700)

USH

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

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