September 27th, 1940

Transcript

Times Log Location Source

12:05am

Retired from previous day

White House

USH

9:30am –

10:40am

Treasury Sec. Henry Morgenthau, Jr.

White House

USH, PAI

10:30am

To Office

White House

USH

10:45am

Amb. William C. Bullitt

Office

STE, TU, PAI

10:50am

Press Conf. #683 (FDR)

Office

PC, STE, TU

11:00am

Mrs. Anna Rosenberg

Office

STE, TU, PAI

11:15am

Rear Adm. Richard E. Byrd

Office

TU, PAI

11:30am

Navy Sec. Frank Knox, Asst.War Sec. Robert P. Patterson, Walter White (NAACP), Arnold Hill, Philip Randolph, War Sec. Henry L. Stimson

Office

STE, TU, PAI

12:00pm

Committee to aid England: Herbert Agar (Editor, Louisville Courier Journal), Maury Maverick, Chester Rowell (San Francisco Editor), Matthew Campbell (Union Labor spokesman), Mrs. Roland Gray (Boston, MA), Charles H. Hall (NYC), Lewis Douglas, Barry Bingham, Laurence Dogget (President emeritus, National YMCA; Springfield, MA), T. Lindsley (NYC).

Office

USH, TU, PAI

12:15pm

British Amb. Lord Lothian, Sir Walter Leighton, Neville M. Butler (British Embassy Counselor)

Office

STE, TU, PAI

12:30pm

War Sec. Henry L. Stimson, Navy Sec. Frank Knox, Asst. War Sec. Robert P. Patterson, Navy U Sec. James V. Forrestal, William S. Knudsen, Adm. Harold R. Stark (Chief of Naval Operations), Gen. George C. Marshall (Chief of Staff)

Note: President's Appointment Index also has Henry Morgenthau, Jr., at a meeting with the first 5 of these men on this day, but no time is given

Office

STE, TU, PAI

1:00pm

(lunch)

Office

STE

2:00pm

Cabinet

Office

STE, TU

3:15pm –

5:00pm

Returned from Office , motoring to view house rented by Crown Princess Martha of Norway

Washington, DC

USH

5:20pm –

6:15pm

(tea) Household

White House

USH

6:45pm –

7:46pm

(dinner) Household, Capt. Daniel Callaghan

White House

USH

8:00pm –

11:00pm

Miss Toi Bachelder

White House

USH

11:05pm

Retired

White House

USH

Houseguest

Crown Princess Martha of Norway and maid (dep. 7:46), Mrs. Oestgaard (dep. 7:46), Mr. Wedel (dep. 7:46)

USH

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

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