September 11th, 1939

Transcript

Times Log Location Source

12:00am

Proclamation #2361 issued suspending limitations on sugar marketing

White House

PP

12:00am

Letter drafted to Walton Moore

White House

PRI

12:00am

Letter drafted to Neville Chamberlain

White House

PRI

12:00am

Letter drafted to Lindsay Rogers

White House

PRI

12:00am

Letter drafted to Prime Min. Winston S. Churchill

Note: FDR proposes personal correspondence with Winston S. Churchill

White House

WSC

8:30am

Arrive by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad

Washington, DC

STE, TU, TRP

8:45am

Arrive White House

White House

USH

10:20am

To Office

White House

USH

12:30pm

Agriculture Sec. Henry A. Wallace

Office

STE, TU

1:00pm

(lunch) Treasury Sec. Henry Morgenthau, Jr.

Office

STE, TU

2:00pm

U Sec. of State Sumner Welles and Sec. of State Cordell Hull

Office

STE

5:45pm

Returned from Office via pool

White House

USH

7:30pm

(dinner) Household, ER

White House

USH

10:40pm

Retired

White House

USH

ER

Arrived from Hyde Park, NY at 0845. Left for lecture tour in south at 2325

USH

ER

Marguerite A. LeHand (arr. 3:40)

USH

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

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