October 10th, 1940

Transcript

Times Log Location Source

10:50am

To Office

White House

USH

11:00am

Interior Sec. Harold L. Ickes

Office

STE, TU, PAI

11:15am

Budget Dir. Harold D. Smith

Office

STE, TU, PAI

11:30am

Sen. Allen J. Ellender (LA)

Office

STE, TU, PAI

11:45am

Ambassador to Belgium John Cudahy

Office

STE, TU, PAI

12:00pm

C. V. Whitney

Office

STE, TU, PAI

12:15pm

Navy Sec. Frank Knox

Office

STE, TU, PAI

12:45pm

George Creel

Office

STE, TU

1:00pm

(lunch) John B. Kelly

Office

STE, TU, PAI

2:15pm

John G. Winant

Office

STE, TU, PAI

2:15pm

Vincent Sheehan

Office

TU, PAI

2:45pm

George Harrison

Office

STE, TU, PAI

3:15pm

Sec. of State Cordell Hull, U Sec. of State Sumner Welles, Asst. Sec. of State Breckinridge Long

Office

STE, TU, PAI

7:10pm

Returned from Office via pool and Doctor's office

White House

USH

7:30pm

(dinner) Household

White House

USH

9:10pm –

10:30pm

Grace G. Tully, Miss Toi Bachelder

White House

USH

10:45pm

To train station enroute to Pittsburgh, PA accompanied by Marguerite A. LeHand

Washington, DC

USH

11:00pm

Leave Washington, DC accompanied by Stephen T. Early, Gen. Edwin M. Watson, Ross T. McIntire, Capt. Daniel Callaghan, Marguerite A. LeHand, Grace G. Tully, Henry M. Kannee, Miss Roberta Barrows, Mrs. Dorothy Brady, George A. Fox, Dewey E. Long, Leo A. de Waard, Secret Service Agents, John M. Carmody, Nathan Straus

Washington, DC

TRP

Houseguest

Samuel I. Rosenman (dep. 2155), Harry L. Hopkins (dep. 2240)

Note: Harry Hopkins' entry unclear; assumed to be departure

USH

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

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