October 11th, 1938

Transcript

Times Log Location Source

10:40am

To Office.

White House

USH

10:45am

Sumner Welles

Office

STE, TU

11:00am

Sec. Henry A. Wallace

Office

STE, TU

11:30am

Chair. Jesse H. Jones

Office

STE, TU

11:45am

Asst. Sec. Elbert K. Burlew

Office

STE, TU

12:15pm

Gifford Pinchot

Office

STE, TU

12:30pm

Adm. Wilson Brown

Office

STE, TU

12:45pm

Gov. Designate Frank M. Dixson (AL)

Office

STE, TU

1:00pm

(lunch) Gardner Cowles, Jr. and John Cowles.

Office

STE, TU

3:45pm

Assoc. Justice Fred M. Vinson (Court of Appeals, Washington DC)

Office

STE, TU

4:00pm

Press Conf. PC#490.

Office

STE, TU

4:50pm

Returned - received newly accredited Minister of Ireland, Robert Brennan, who presented letters.

Office

STE, TU, USH

5:00pm

Received newly accredited Minister of Egypt, Mahmoud Hassan Bey, who presented letters.

White House

STE, TU, USH

5:10pm

To Apartments.

White House

USH

7:45pm –

10:20pm

(dinner) ER, Household, Sec. and Mrs. Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Miller, Harry L. Hopkins, G. Hall Roosevelt, Miss Malvina Thompson, Mrs. W. D. Robbins, Mrs. de Brugne, Mrs. Helm.

White House

USH

11:10pm

Retired

White House

USH

ER

In Washington, DC.

USH

Houseguest

Miss Chaney (left 10:25), Miss Marguerite LeHand (arr. 12:30), Miss Nancy Cook (6:10 to 10:45)

USH

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

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