November 27th, 1941

Transcript

Times Log Location Source

12:05am

Retired from previous day

White House

USH

10:45am –

11:00am

John Pelley

White House

USH

11:00am –

11:30am

George Harrison

White House

USH

11:15am

Houston Thompson, Dr. Wayne Lyman Morse, Prof. Thomas Reed Powell, Prof. James Cumming Bonbright, James Henry Millits: Railroad Emergency Board

Note: Conflict with usher's log. President's Appointment Index has name: Joseph Henry Millits.Is "Houston Thompson" the same as "Huston Thompson" on 11/05?

Office

STE, TU, PAI

11:40am

To Office

White House

USH

11:45am

Agriculture Sec. Claude R. Wickard

Office

STE, TU, PAI

12:15pm

Amb. to Soviet Union Laurence A. Steinhardt

Office

STE, TU, PAI

12:55pm

John Mack

Office

STE, TU, PAI

1:00pm

(lunch) Wayne Coy, Rep. Fritz G. Lanham (TX)

Office

STE, TU, PAI

2:00pm

Don Nelson

Office

STE, TU, PAI

2:20pm

Sec. of State Cordell Hull

Office

STE

2:30pm

Sec. of State Cordell Hull, Japanese Amb. Adm. Kichisaburo Nomura, Saburo Kurusu

Office

STE, TU, PAI

3:30pm

Gov. Matthew M. Neely (WV)

Office

STE, TU, PAI

3:35pm

Edward J. Flynn (Chairm. Democratic Nat. Comm.)

Office

PAI

3:45pm

Adm. Ernest J. King

Office

STE, TU, PAI

5:45pm –

6:50pm

Mrs. Betsy Roosevelt, Mr. and Mrs. Gage, to swim

Note: Presumably they joined FDR in pool

White House

USH

6:50pm

Returned from Office via pool and Doctor's office

White House

USH

7:30pm –

11:20pm

(dinner) Mrs. Dorothy Brady

White House

USH

11:45pm

Retired

White House

USH

ER

Returned from New York, NY at 0720. In Washington, DC the rest of the day.

USH

Houseguest

Joseph Lash (arr. 7:20), Miss Elizabeth Cooper (dep. 9:55), Miss Mayris Chaney (arr. 4:00), Miss Louise Marley (arr. 5:25)

USH

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

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