September 15th, 1943

Transcript

Times Log Location Source

11:00am –

12:00pm

(Columnist and Radio Commentator Conference: Sec. of State Cordell Hull, Raymond Clapper, William Hillman, Walter Lippmann, Earl Godwin, Ernest Lindley, Raymond Gram Swing, Robert Wood, Richard Harkness, George Fielding Eliot, Lyle Wilson, Robert Nixon, Kirke Simpson, Ben McKelway, Casey Jones, Mark Sullivan, Palmer Hoyt, Michael McDermott, Robert E. Sherwood, Elmer Davis, Mrs. Anne O'Hare McCormick, Miss Dorothy Thompson)

White House (Study)

STE, USH, PAI

12:00pm

Agriculture Sec. Claude R. Wickard, Assoc. Justice James F. Byrnes, Justice Fred M. Vinson, Marvin Jones; Edward A. O'Neal, James G. Patton, Ezra T. Benson, Albert S. Goss

Note: Conflict with "to Office time"

Office

STE, TU, PAI

12:05pm

To Office

White House

USH

1:00pm

(lunch) (Harry L. Hopkins, Samuel I. Rosenman, Robert E. Sherwood)

Note: TU recorded Lunch at 1300, with no guests

Office

STE, TU

2:00pm

Treasury Sec. Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Assoc. Justice James F. Byrnes, Sen. Walter F. George (GA), Justice Fred M. Vinson, Rep. Robert L. Doughton (NC), Samuel I. Rosenman, Randolph Paul, Herbert Gaston

Office

STE, TU, PAI

3:15pm

Sec. of State Cordell Hull

Office

STE, PAI

3:30pm

(Archbishop Spellman, Archbishop Mooney, Archbishop Stritch, Monsignor Carroll)

Office

STE, PAI

6:55pm

Returned from Office via Doctor's office.

Office

USH

7:00pm –

8:00pm

(cocktails) Comdr. and Mrs. Edward Walker.

White House

USH

8:00pm

(dinner) Household only

White House

USH

11:00pm

Retired

White House

USH

ER

In South Pacific

USH

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

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