October 13th, 1942

Transcript

Times Log Location Source

11:15am

Rep. John W. McCormack (MA), Rep. Joseph E. Casey (MA)

Note: Time conflict - Usher's Diary shows FDR going to his office at 1123.

Office

STE, TU, PAI

11:23am

To Office

White House

USH

11:30am

Grenville Clark

Office

STE, TU, PAI

11:45am

Chinese Min. Dr. T. V. Soong

Office

STE, TU, PAI

12:15pm

Gov. Leverett Saltonstall (MA), Gov. Sumner Sewall (ME), Gov. Robert A. Hurley (CT), Gov. J. Howard McGrath (RI), Gov. Robert O. Blood (NH), Gov. William H. Wills (VT)

Office

STE, TU, PAI

12:55pm

Ernest A. Kehr

Office

STE, TU, PAI

1:00pm

(lunch) (Adm. William D. Leahy)

Office

STE, TU, PAI

4:15pm

Press Conf. PC #851 (FDR)

Office

PC, STE, TU

5:00pm

(Arthur Sulzberger)

Note: President's Appointment Index says appointment "after Press". No time given, 1700 assumed.

Office

STE, PAI

5:25pm

Returned from Office to Red Parlor

Office

USH

5:25pm –

6:37pm

(tea) Justices of the Supreme Court, Chief Justice Harlan F. Stone, Assoc. Justice James F. Byrnes, Atty. Gen. Francis Biddle, Solicitor Gen. Charles Fahy

White House (Red Parlor)

USH, STE, TU, PAI

6:40pm

From Red Parlor to Doctor's office

White House

USH

7:15pm

To Apartments

White House

USH

7:30pm

(dinner) Mr. and Mrs. Harry L. Hopkins

White House

USH

11:30pm

Retired

White House

USH

ER

Returned from New York, NY in late evening.

USH

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

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