September 5th, 1941

Transcript

Times Log Location Source

12:45am

Retired from previous day

White House

USH

9:30am –

10:00am

(Treas. Sec. Henry Morgenthau, Jr.)

White House

USH, STE, PAI

10:40am

To Office

White House

USH

10:55am

Press Conf. PC#767

Office

PC, STE, TU

11:15am

Sen. Patrick A. McCarran (NV)

Office

STE, TU, PAI

11:30am

Rep. J. Buell Snyder (PA)

Office

STE, TU, PAI

11:45am

Bishop George Ashton Oldham (Albany)

Office

STE, TU, PAI

12:00pm

Alexander Woollcott

Office

STE, TU, PAI

12:15pm

William S. Knudsen

Office

STE, TU, PAI

1:00pm

(lunch) (Sec. of State Cordell Hull, Harry L. Hopkins)

Office

STE, PAI

2:00pm

Cabinet

Office

STE, TU

3:45pm

Swearing in of Francis Biddle as Attorney General. 100 guests

Office

STE

4:25pm

Adm. Ernest J. King, Adm. Harold R. Stark (Chief of Naval Ops.), Adm. Emory S. Land, Harry L. Hopkins

Office

STE

7:00pm

Returned from Office via Doctor's office

White House

USH

7:30pm

(dinner) Elliott Roosevelt and Mrs. Elliott Roosevelt

White House

USH

8:40pm –

10:40pm

Miss Toi Batchelder (stenographer)

White House

USH

10:45pm

To station enroute to Hyde Park, NY with Grace G. Tully

White House

USH, TU

Houseguest

Mrs. Dorothy K. Roosevelt (dep. 1:15)

USH

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

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