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President Harry S. Truman.  Source: Truman Library.   What do you do in a day? Meet with your boss, employees, clients? Go out to lunch with friends? Go to the dentist, the grocery store, or school? Come see what President Truman did every day of his Presidency! Search for a specific day (what was President Truman doing on your birthday?) or search for a specific person (how many times did President Truman meet with George Marshall?). President Truman also met with numerous everyday citizens during the course of his duties--did he meet with one of your relatives? Search the calendar to find out!
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This Presidential Appointments Calendar is based upon the records contained in the
Matthew J. Connelly Files
   
Monday, November 10, 1947
   
12:30 am Returned to the White House.
    [Public Papers: Special Message to the Congress Transmitting Report on Assistance to Greece and Turkey]
10:15 am Commander John L. Golob, Disabled American Veterans
Mr. Willard Rice
Mr. Francis J. Sullivan
Mr. Cicero Hogan
(Mr. Rice asked Mr. Connelly to arrange for Commander
Golob to call on the President to outline the program
of the DAV)
10:30 am Honorable James E. Webb, Director, Bureau of the Budget
Honorable Frederick Lawton, Assistant Director
(One half hour appointment)
11:00 am Mr. Earl Bunting, President, Natl. Assn. of Manufacturers
Mr. Curtis E. Calder of this Assn. and also Chairman
of the Board of the Electric Bond and Share Co. of N. Y.
Mr. Walter Chamblin, Jr.
Mr. Noel Sargent
(Mr. Bunting wrote to the President on October 31st,
requesting an appointment to discuss a program for the
restoration of Europe which has been prepared by a
committee of the NAM. Stated this program approves
Marshall Plan in substance and includes number of specific
suggestions for its implementation.)
11:30 am Honorable Myron Taylor
(Phoned Mr. Connelly from Boston last week to ask for
this appointment.)
11:45 am Honorable William Green, President, A.F. of L.
(Mr. Connelly invited him, at the President's
direction. Told him the President wished to see
him before Special Session convened, re Europe, etc.)
12:00 pm Honorable Josef Bech, the Foreign Minister of
Luxembourg
(Is also Chairman of Luxembourg Delegation to UN
General Assembly and Chairman of the First Committee
of the General Assembly - asked to pay respects.)
12:15 pm Dr. Daniel A. Poling, President and Editor,
Christian Herald
(Wrote Mr. Hassett that he would be here today,
en route to Texas, where he is speaking to Presidents
and Deans of the Land-Grant Colleges on universal military
training - asked to see the President after 11.00 a.m.)
12:30 pm Honorable Alan G. Kirk, U. S. Ambassador to Belgium
12:35 pm The Secretary of State [George C. Marshall]
(Usual Monday appointment)
1:00 pm (Cabinet Luncheon - all present except Interior
and Agriculture.)
3:00 pm The President attended the television premiere of
documentary on highway safety, "In the Driver's
Seat" in the Projection Room of the White House:
The following guests were invited to be present:
Anderson, M. O., President,
National Automobile Dealers Association, Washington, D. C.
Bennett, James V., Chairman, Federal Interdepartmental
Safety Council, Washington, D. C.
Blaisdell, Paul H., Secretary, National Committee
for Traffic Safety, Chicago, Illinois
Booth, Arch N., Manager, National Chamber of Commerce,
Washington, D. C.
Cushing, Harry, Radio Division, Public Relations, Auto.
Manufacturers Assoc., New Center Bldg., Detroit, Mich.
Darlington, M. R., Jr., Managing Director, Inter-
Industry Highway Safety Committee, Washington, D. C.
Dearborn, Ned H., President, National Safety Council,
Chicago, Illinois
Dunman, W. Robie, Assistant Director, The President's
Highway Safety Conference, Washington, D. C.
Falvey, Wallace J., Chariman, National Conservation
Bureau, New York, New York
Fleming, Maj. Gen. Philip B., Administrator, Federal
Works Agency, Washington, D. C.
Gallup, Dr. George H., Director, American Institute
of Public Opinion, New York, N. Y.
Gibbons, John W., Director of Public Relations,
Automotive Safety Foundation, Washington, D. C.
Gilchrist Gibb, President, Texas Agricultural and
Mechanical College, College Station, Texas
Hall, W. Earl, Chairman, Nat. Committee for Traffic
Safety, Mason City, Iowa
Hinckley, Robert H., Vice President, American Broad-
casting Co., New York City
Hoffman, Paul G. President, The Studebaker Corporation,
South Bend, Ind.
Johnson, Pyke, President, Automotive Safety Foundation,
Washington, D. C.
Keagan, Lt. Col. Kirk A., Remington-Rand, Inc., New
York City
Kittinger, L. T., Vice President, Shell Oil Co.,
Washington, D. C.
Leavye, Maj. Gen. Edmond H., Chief of Transporation,
Department of Army, Washington
Lewellen, W. G., Vice President, General Motors Corp.,
Washington, D. C.
Long, Dr. Forrest E., Chairman, Dept. Secondary Education,
New York University
MacDonald, Thomas H., Commissioner, Public Road Adm.,
Washington, D. C.
Mallon, William L., Reg. Vice President, National
Automobile Dealer Assoc., Newark
Marlow, Harvey, Dir., Harvey Marlow Television
McDonald, Walter R., Pres., Nat. Assoc. Railroad and
Utility Commissioners, Atlanta
Newman, J. J., Vice President, The B. F. Goodrich
Co., Akron, O.
O'Connor, Basil, Gen. Chairman, American Red Cross,
Washington, D. C.
Proctor, Albert, Automotive Safety Foundation,
700 Hill Bldg., Washington, D. C.
Richardson, Lee C., First Vice Pres., Am. Assoc. of
Detroit
Schmank, Robert J., First Vice Pres., Amer. Automobile
Assoc., Washington, D. C.
Slack, L. W., Packard Motor Car Co., Detroit, Mich.
Tompkins, H. D., Vice President, The Firestone Tire
& Rubber Co., Akron
Weaver, Colonel C. Reynolds, Automobile Safety
Foundation, Washington, D. C.
Yost, Colonel Light B., Asst. Dir., Field Operations,
General Motors Corp., Detroit
Parker, Eliot U.
4:00 pm (Mr. William Boyle, his brother, sister-in-law
and two children)
5:00 pm At The White House:
The President and Mrs. Truman gave a Tea for the
National Executive Board of American Gold Star
Mothers, Inc.)

 
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