October 31st, 1940

Transcript

Times Log Location Source

10:00am

Arrive Washington, DC

Washington, DC

TRP

10:20am

Arrive White House

White House

USH

10:58am

To Office

White House

USH

11:00am

Sec. of State Cordell Hull

Office

STE, TU, PAI

12:55pm

Treasury Sec. Henry Morgenthau, Jr.

Office

STE

1:00pm

(lunch) Archbishop Spellman

Office

STE, TU, PAI

3:45pm –

5:00pm

From Office to motor to Bethesda Medical Science Building accompanied by Ross T. McIntire and both Aides

Office

USH

4:15pm

Address at the Dedication of the National Institute of Health, Bethesda, MD

Note: Stenographer's and Tully log and Presidential Appointments Index have FDR speaking at the Cancer Institute at 1615.

Bethesda, MD

STE, PP, TU, PAI

5:00pm

Return to pool

White House

USH

5:40pm –

6:35pm

To Doctor's office

White House

USH

7:30pm

(dinner) Household, Grace G. Tully

White House

USH

9:00pm –

11:26pm

Benjamin V. Cohen

White House

USH

11:50pm

Retired

White House

USH

Houseguest

Samuel I. Rosenman (arr. 10:20), Harry L. Hopkins (arr. 10:20)

USH

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

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