May 4th, 1936

Transcript

Times Log Location Source

10:30am

To Office

White House

USH

10:30am

L. B. Kilbourne

Office

STE, TU

10:45am

Sen. Charles L. McNary

Office

STE, TU

11:00am

Sen. George W. Norris

Office

STE, TU

11:30am

Rep. Otha D. Wearin

Office

STE, TU

11:45am

Rexford G. Tugwell

Office

STE, TU

12:00pm

Eduardo I. Montoulieu (Treasurer Cuban Red Cross, to confer its Grand Cross of Honor and Merit)

Office

STE, TU

12:15pm

Chester Gray

Office

STE, TU

12:30pm

William J. Thompkins (Recorder of Deeds, DC)

Office

STE, TU

12:45pm

Fred W. Catlett (Member of Federal Home Loan Bank Board)

Office

STE, TU

1:00pm

(lunch) Treasury Sec. Henry Morgenthau, Jr.

Office

STE, TU

2:00pm

(William Paley - CBS)

Office

STE, TU

3:45pm

(Regional and State Directors - Division of Women's Professional Projects)

Office

STE, TU

6:00pm –

6:35pm

To pool

White House

USH

7:45pm –

11:30pm

(dinner) ER, Dr. and Mrs. Parran, Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Gardiner, Herbert Putman, Dr. Mary Davis, Miss Marie Butts, Stewart McDonald, Helen Reynolds, George Creel, Bishop Atwood

Note: Stenographer's and Tully logs list: Bahamian Gov. Bede and Lady Clifford, Dr. Edward Howard Griggs, et al. Tully log also has pencilled note: Cocktails - Mac (?) Cliffords, J. Edgar Hoover, Walter Winchell. No such indications in usher's log.

White House

USH

9:15pm –

11:30pm

Mrs. William Phillips joined dinner guests at movies

White House

USH

ER

Returned to White Houe at 0725. In Washington, DC the rest of the day.

USH

Houseguest

Miss Faiga Shapiro (arr. 7:30), Lt. Col. and Mrs. Arthur Murray (dep. 10:45), Miss Esther Lape (arr. 4:35), Dr. Edward H. Griggs (arr. 6:25), Mrs. Courtney (arr. 8:50), Esther Burke (arr. 8:50), John Roosevelt (dep. 11:35)

USH

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

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