September 4th, 1941

Transcript

Times Log Location Source

11:00am

Dr. Solon Buck

Note: Conflict with usher's log

Office

STE, TU, PAI

11:15am

Chairman and Members of FDR's Advisory Committee on Political Refugees: Dr. James G. McDonald, Breckinridge Long, Joseph E. Davies, Atty. Gen. Francis Biddle, Paul Baerwald, Joseph P. Chamberlain, Archbishop Joseph F. Rummel, Hamilton Fish Armstrong, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, Monsignor Michael J. Ready, George L. Warren

Note: Conflict with usher's log

Office

STE, TU, PAI

11:20am

To Office

White House

USH

12:00pm

Wayne Johnson

Note: Tully Diary has this at 1145.

Office

STE, TU, PAI

12:15pm

(Mrs. Anna Rosenberg)

Office

STE, PAI

1:00pm

(lunch) Bernard M. Baruch

Office

STE, TU, PAI

2:00pm

William S. Knudsen, Sidney Hillman, War U Sec. Robert P. Patterson, Navy U Sec. James V. Forrestal, Adm. Emory S. Land

Office

STE, TU, PAI

2:45pm

(J. Edgar Hoover, Atty. Gen. Francis Biddle)

Office

STE, PAI

3:15pm

James H. Rowe, Jr. (Admin. Asst.)

Office

STE, PAI

6:37pm

Returned from Office via Doctor's office

White House

USH

7:30pm

(dinner) Harry L. Hopkins

White House

USH

9:25pm –

10:10pm

To 3rd floor to check books with Mrs. Eben

Note: Retired at 0045 next day

White House

USH

ER

Left for Pittsburgh, PA, at 8:10.

Note: Usher's log entry"To Airport enroute Pittsburg via Penn-Central" not entirely clear. Pittsburgh, PA, assumed.

USH

Houseguest

Capt. Elliott Roosevelt (arr. 9:20)

USH

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

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