September 2nd, 1941

Transcript

Times Log Location Source

8:50am

Returned from Hyde Park, NY with ER

White House

USH

10:05am –

11:10am

VP Henry A. Wallace, Sen. Walter F. George (GA), Rep. Clifton A. Woodrum (VA)

White House

STE, USH, TU, PAI

11:30am

To Office

White House

USH

11:45am

Sen. Theodore G. Bilbo (MS), Sen. James O. Eastland (MS)

Office

STE, TU, PAI

12:00pm

George M. Harrison

Office

STE, TU, PAI

12:15pm

Gen. Brehon B. Somervell

Office

STE, TU, PAI

12:45pm

Sec. of State Cordell Hull

Office

STE, TU, PAI

1:00pm

(lunch) Sec. of State Cordell Hull

Office

STE

2:15pm

Maj. G. D. Clark, William F. Lamb, Paul D. Cret: Fine Arts Commission - War Dept. Building

Office

STE, PAI

3:30pm

W. Averell Harriman

Office

STE

3:30pm

Press Conf. PC#766

Office

PC, STE

4:15pm

(Raymond Daniell (NY Times))

White House

PAI

7:02pm

Returned from Office via Doctor's office

White House

USH

7:30pm –

11:00pm

(dinner) ER, Household, Miss Jean Seaver, Miss Joan Swartzgen, Judge Samuel I. Rosenman. Movie "Forgotten Village"

White House

USH

11:10pm

Retired

White House

USH

ER

Returned to White House with FDR at 0850. In Washington, DC the rest of the day.

USH

Houseguest

Miss Lorena Hickok (arr. 7:45); Mrs. Elliott Roosevelt and Harry L. Hopkins (arr. 0850 with FDR); Joseph Lash (arr. 1:50); Miss Alice Kuhn, Miss Hildred Coon, North Bern, Al McRae (arr. 5:30); Mrs. Dorothy K. Roosevelt (arr. 8:48)

USH

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

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