October 27th, 1940

Transcript

Times Log Location Source

12:00am

In Residence

1:00pm

(lunch)

White House

USH

2:15pm –

3:40pm

Carl Sandburg

White House

USH

3:55pm –

4:20pm

Spkr. Sam T. Rayburn (TX), Rep. Lyndon B. Johnson (TX)

White House

USH

4:15pm

Telegram received from Prime Min. Winston S. Churchill

White House

WSC

5:30pm –

6:20pm

To Doctor's office

White House

USH

7:15pm –

10:30pm

(dinner) Sen. and Mrs. James F. Byrnes (SC)

White House

USH

10:50pm

To station enroute to Newark, NJ and New York, NY accompanied by Marguerite A. LeHand, Ross T. McIntire

White House

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, Howell G. Crim, Miss Roberta Barrows, George Fox, Dewey Long, Leo deWaard, secret service agents, Rep. Mary T. Norton, newspapermen, photographers, and broadcasting, newsreel, and telegraph representatives.

Washington, DC

TRP

Houseguest

Amb. and Mrs. Joseph P. Kennedy (arr. 6:55), Amb. Joseph P. Kennedy (dep. 10:20), Judge Samuel I. Rosenman (dep. 11:10), Harry L. Hopkins (dep. 11:10), Robert Sherwood (dep. 11:10)

USH

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

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