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THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
SUNDAY, JANUARY 1, 1956
KEY WEST, FLORIDA
10:44 am
The President walked to his office in the Administration
Building, arriving at 10:48 am. He was accompanied
by:
Dr. Milton Eisenhower
Dr. Howard Snyder
Commander Edward L. Beach
(At the office, the President worked on
the State of the Union Message).
11:35 am
The President departed his office.
11:49 am
Dr. Howard Snyder and Dr. Walter Tkach arrive
at Quarters "L".
2:02 pm
President and Mrs. Eisenhower went for a drive around
Key West. They were accompanied by:
Dr. and Mrs. Howard Snyder
Commander Edward L. Beach
Dr. Milton Eisenhower
Mrs. Elivera Doud
3:32 pm
Arrived back at the Naval Base. The President,
Dr. Milton Eisenhower, and Dr. Howard Snyder
left the car and walked back to Quarters "L".
7:30 pm
President and Mrs. Eisenhower had the following
guests for dinner at Quarters "L":
Dr. and Mrs. Howard Snyder
Mrs. Elivera Doud
Dr. Milton Eisenhower
Commander Edward L. Beach
11:15 pm
The President retired for the evening.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
MONDAY, JANUARY 2, 1956
KEY WEST, FLORIDA
8:12 am
Breakfast
8:50 am
The President departed Quarters "L" and walked to
his office in the Administration Building. He
was accompanied by Commander Edward L. Beach.
10:55 am
The President, accompanied by Dr. Howard Snyder,
departed his office and walked to Quarters "L",
arriving at 10:58 am.
11:02 am
The President, accompanied by Commander Edward L.
Beach, departed Quarters "L" and walked to the
ballfield to engage in golf practice.
11:28 am
Mrs. Eisenhower joined the President on the ballfield.
12:10 pm
Golf practice completed, the President returned to Quarters "L".
7:10 pm
The following arrived at Key West to confer with the President:
Hon. Rowland Hughes
Hon. Gabriel Hauge
Hon. Gerald Morgan
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
7:15 pm
The following were guests of President and Mrs. Eisenhower
at dinner:
Dr. Milton Eisenhower
General and Mrs. Howard Snyder
Commander Edward L. Beach
Mrs. Elivera Doud
10:55 pm
The President retired for the evening.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
TUESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1956
KEY WEST, FLORIDA
8:20 am
The President walked to his office. He was accompanied by:
Hon. James Hagerty
Hon. Gabriel Hauge
Hon. Rowland Hughes
Commander Edward L. Beach
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
8:23 am
Arrived at the office. (Pictures were taken of the above
group with the President upon arrival at the office.)
8:50 am
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
9:00 am
Hon. Rowland Hughes
Hon. Gerald Morgan
Hon. Gabriel Hauge
(Conferred with the President on the State of the
Union Message.)
9:55 am
Dr. Milton Eisenhower arrived at the office.
10:28 am
The President, accompanied by Dr. Milton Eisenhower and
Commander Edward L. Beach, departed the office
and walked back to Quarters "L".
10:36 am
The President accompanied Mrs. Eisenhower and Mrs.
Elivera Doud to the Boca Chica Naval Air Station
where Mrs. Eisenhower and Mrs. Doud were
airborne for Washington, D. C.
Dr. Walter Tkach accompanied the ladies to Washington.
11:02 am
The President, accompanied by Dr. Milton Eisenhower,
departed the Boca Chica Airport and returned to
Quarters "L".
2:38 pm
The President walked around the Naval Base, accompanied by:
Dr. Milton Eisenhower
Dr. Howard Snyder
Commander Edward L. Beach
TUESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1956
Page 2
6:55 pm
The President had dinner with the following in Quarters "L":
Dr. Milton Eisenhower
Dr. Howard Snyder
Commander Edward L. Beach
7:45 pm
The President attended the movie "The Marksman".
Others attending:
Dr. Milton Eisenhower
Commander Edward L. Beach
Dr. Howard Snyder
Chief Charles J. Longello
Sgt. John Moaney
8:50 pm
Movie completed.
11:10 pm
The President retired for the evening.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1956
KEY WEST, FLORIDA
8:02 am
Mr. Bill Robinson arrived at Quarters "L".
9:06 am
The President, accompanied by Mr. Bill Robinson
and Dr. Milton Eisenhower, departed Quarters "L"
and walked to the President's office, arriving at 9:10 am,
9:31 am
The above group departed the office and walked along the
piers to Quarters "L", arriving at 9:50 am.
1:59 pm
The President, accompanied by Dr. Milton Eisenhower
and Dr. Howard Snyder, walked across the street
to the baseball field where the President engaged
in golf practice.
2:29 pm
Completed golf practice and returned to his quarters.
2:30 pm
General Alfred Gruenther arrived at Quarters "L",
accompanied by Hon. James Hagerty and Commander
Edward L. Beach. The President greeted General
Gruenther and pictures were taken of the President,
General Gruenther, and Dr. Milton Eisenhower.
3:27 pm
Mr. Bill Robinson
Mr. Ellis Slater
Mr. George Allen
(Arrived at Quarters "L" where they joined the President).
5:25 pm
Captain and Mrs. Fritz Burns arrived at Quarters "L".
5:30 pm
Hon. James Hagerty
Admiral and Mrs. Harry Henderson
Captain and Mrs. William R. Gleim
(Arrived at Quarters "L").
8:00 pm
The following had dinner with the President:
Dr. Howard Snyder
Dr. Milton Eisenhower
General Alfred Gruenther
Mr. George Allen
Mr. Bill Robinson
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1956
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8:05 pm
The President played bridge with the following:
General Alfred Gruenther
Mr. Ellis Slater
Mr. George Allen
(While the President was playing bridge, the
following attended the movie "Road to Denver":
Dr. Milton Eisenhower
Mr. Bill Robinson
Dr. Howard Snyder
Commander Edward L. Beach)
8:35 pm
The President and his bridge group joined those
watching the movie.
9:55 pm
Movie completed.
10:00 pm
Messrs. Slater, Allen and Robinson departed Quarters "L".
10:01 pm
The President retired for the evening.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 1956
KEY WEST, FLA.
8:09 am
The President greeted the following at Quarters "L":
President-elect Juscelino Kubitschek (de Oliveira) of Brazil
Hon. James Dunn, U. S. Ambassador to Brazil
Ambassador Joao Carlos Muniz of Brazil
(Pictures were taken then the President escorted
his guests into his quarters where breakfast was
served).
8:40 am
The President escorted President Kubitschek and his party
to their cars where they again posed for group pictures.
The following were photographed:
The President
President-elect Kubitschek
Ambassador Muniz
General Alfred Gruenther
Admiral Harry H. Henderson
General Howard Snyder
Commander Edward L. Beach
8:53 am
The President walked to his office, arriving there at 8:55 am.
Still, movie and tape recordings were taken in the
President's office from 8:58 until 9:14 am, at which
time the President read certain sections from his
State of the Union Message.
10:00 am
Departed the office and returned to his quarters.
10:36 am
Mr. George Allen and Mr. Ellis Slater arrived at Quarters "L".
7:10 pm
The following had dinner with the President:
Dr. Milton Eisenhower
General Howard McC. Snyder
General Alfred Gruenther
Commander Edward L. Beach
Mr. Ellis Slater
Mr. George Allen
Mr. Bill Robinson
8:05 pm
The President played bridge with General Alfred Gruenther,
Mr. George Allen and Mr. Ellis Slater.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 1956
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10:25 pm
Bridge game completed.
10:45 pm
The President retired for the evening.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 1956
KEY WEST, FLA.
8:34 am
The President, accompanied by Hon. James Hagerty and
Commander Edward L. Beach, departed Quarters "L"
and walked to the office.
8:40 am
The President conferred with the following:
Hon. Ezra Taft Benson
Hon. True D. Morse
Hon. Gabriel Hauge
Hon. Fred Seaton
(Still and movie photographs were taken of the above).
10:49 am
The President, accompanied by Hon. Ezra Taft Benson,
departed the office and walked to Quarters "L",
arriving at 10:53 am.
10:55 am
The President, accompanied by Dr. Milton Eisenhower,
General Alfred Gruenther and Dr. Howard Snyder,
departed the quarters and walked to the baseball
field where the President engaged in some golf
practice until 11:32 am, when he returned to his quarters.
11:24 am
Hon. Ezra Taft Benson departed Quarters "L".
1:06 pm
The President walked to the vicinity of the Sonar School
and watched the softball game between the Secret
Service and the White House Press.
2:00 pm
Arrived back at Quarters "L".
7:05 pm
The President had the following guests for dinner in Quarters "L":
Dr. Howard Snyder
General Alfred Gruenther
Dr. Milton Eisenhower
Commander Edward L. Beach
Mr. George Allen
Mr. Ellis Slater
Mr. Bill Robinson
7:45 pm
The President played bridge with General Gruenther, Messrs.
Allen and Slater until 11:12 pm.
11:25 pm
The President retired for the evening.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 1956
KEY WEST, FLA.
10:10 am
The President, accompanied by General Alfred Gruenther
and Commander Beach, departed his quarters and
walked to the baseball field where he practiced golf.
10:32 am
Mr. George Allen and Mr. Ellis Slater joined the President
on the baseball field,
10:46 am
The President returned to his quarters.
3:30 pm
The President played bridge with General Gruenther,
Mr. Ellis Slater and Mr. George Allen.
7:05 pm
Bridge game completed. The following had dinner with the
President:
Mr. Bill Robinson
Mr. Ellis Slater
Mr. George Allen
Dr. Milton Eisenhower
Dr. Howard Snyder
General Alfred Gruenther
Commander Edward L. Beach
8:10 pm
Dinner completed. The President played bridge until 10:40 pm
with the following:
General Alfred Gruenther
Mr. George Allen
Mr. Bill Robinson
10:46 pm
The President retired for the evening.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
SUNDAY, JANUARY 8, 1956
KEY WEST, FLA.
8:50 am
The President departed Quarters "L", enroute to the
Press Conference held in the BOQ Building.
Before walking to the BOQ Building, he spoke for
a few minutes with Sheriff John Spottswood of
Monroe County, Florida.
The President was accompanied to the Press Conference by:
Hon. James Hagerty
Admiral Harry H. Henderson
Commander Edward L. Beach
Dr. Howard Snyder
Sheriff John Spottswood
9:07 am
Press Conference concluded, the President walked back to
Quarters "L".
10:32 am
The President motored to the Boca Chica Naval Air Station
for return flight to Washington, D. C. He was
accompanied in car by Admiral Harry H. Henderson.
10:53 am
Arrived at Boca Chica Naval Air Station. Here the President
was greeted by the following:
Mayor and Mrs. C. B. Harvey
City Commissioner and Mrs. William Chappell
City Commissioner Paul Roberts
City Commissioner and Mrs. Joseph Fernandez
County Commissioner William Freeman
County Commissioner Harvey Harris
Mr.
Keith
Mr. Joe Pinder, President of Key West Chamber of
Commerce
Captain Chauncey S. Willard, Commanding Officer of
Boca Chica Naval Air Station
Captain Fritz Gleim, Commanding Officer, Key West
Naval Base
Sheriff John Spottswood and members of his office,
Florida State Police and Key West City Police.
11:08 am
Airborne for Washington, D. C.
3:50 pm
Arrived at MATS Terminal where the President was greeted
by Colonel Robert L. Schulz, the President's Military Aide.
SUNDAY, JANUARY 8, 1956
Page 2
3:55 pm
The President departed MATS Terminal and motored
directly to the White House. The following rode
with the President:
Mr. James Hagerty
Dr. Howard McC. Snyder
Mr. George Allen
4:03 pm
Arrived at the White House.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
MONDAY, JANUARY 9, 1956
8:18 am
The President arrived at the office.
8:20 am
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
(until 9:05 am)
9:08 am
Hon. Arthur E. Burns
(until 9:45 am)
9:50 am
Hon. James Hagerty
(until 9:55 am)
10:15 am
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
(until 10:25 am)
10:55 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
(until 11:10 am)
11:40 am
The President departed the office and went to the Mansion.
1:00 pm
LUNCH
2:08 pm
The President returned to the office.
2:40 pm
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
3:55 pm
The President departed the office and went to the Mansion.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1956
8:25 am
The President arrived at the office.
8:35 am
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
8:40 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. James Hagerty
9:00 am
LEGISLATIVE LEADERS
The President
Hon. Richard T. Nixon
Senator Styles Bridges
Senator William F. Knowland
Senator Leverett Saltonstall
Congressman Joseph W. Martin, Jr.
Congressman Charles A. Halleck
Congressman Leslie C. Arends
Congressman Leo E. Allen
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
Hon. James Hagerty
Hon. Kevin McCann
Hon. Fred Seaton
Hon. I. Jack Martin
Hon. Bryce Harlow
Hon. Howard Pyle
Hon. Murray Snyder
Hon. Earle Chesney
Hon, Gerald Morgan
Hon. Homer Gruenther
Hon. Arthur Minnich
10:25 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
(until 10:50 am)
11:30 am
Hon. James Hagerty
(until 11:45 am)
11:45 am
The President departed the office and went to the Mansion.
1:00 pm
LUNCH
1:55 pm
The President returned to the office.
TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1956
Page 2
2:20 pm
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
2:40 pm
Hon. John Foster Dulles
(until 4:15 pm)
4:45 pm
The President departed the office.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1956
8:50 am
The President arrived at the office.
8:55 am
Hon. James Hagerty
(until 9:15 am)
9:15 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
(until 9:35 am)
9:40 am
Hon. Dillon Anderson
(until 10:25 am)
10:25 am
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
10:27 am
Hon. Arthur Flemming
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
(General Persons was with Dr. Flemming and the
President until 10:40 am. Dr. Flemming then
saw the President alone for five minutes).
10:45 am
Hon. Herbert Brownell
Hon. Sherman Adams
11:50 am
The President departed the office and went to the Mansion.
1:00 pm
LUNCH
2:08 pm
The President returned to the office.
2:10 pm
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
2:15 pm
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
2:30 pm
Hon. John Foster Dulles
Hon. Robert Anderson (Mr. Anderson OFF THE RECORD)
(until 3:40 pm)
3:42 pm
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. James Hagerty
3:50 pm
Hon. Gerald Morgan
Hon. Kevin McCann
(until 4:15 pm)
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1956
Page 2
5:10 pm
The President departed the office and went
to the Mansion.
5:30 pm
Hon. Dillon Anderson
Mr. L. F. McCollum
Mr. Bill Francis
(with the President at the Mansion until 6:00 pm).
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 1956
8:15 am
The President arrived at the office.
8:20 am
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
8:30 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
9:00 am
NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL
The President
Hon. John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State
Hon. Charles E. Wilson, Secretary of Defense
Hon. Arthur S. Flemming, Director, ODM
Hon. George Humphrey, Secretary of the Treasury
Hon. Douglas McKay, Secretary of the Interior
Hon. Sinclair Weeks, Secretary of Commerce
Hon. Harold E. Stassen, Special Assistant to the President
Hon. Rowland R. Hughes, Director, Bureau of the Budget
Hon. Wilbur M. Brucker, Secretary of the Army
Hon. Lewis L. Strauss, Chairman, Atomic Energy Comm.
Hon, Felix Wormser, Assistant Secretary of the Interior
Hon. Theodore C. Streibert, Director, U. S. I. A.
Hon. Percival Brundage, Deputy Director, Bureau of
the Budget
Hon. Robert T. Bowie, Assistant Secretary of State
General Nathan F. Twining, Acting Chairman, Joint Chiefs
of Staff
Admiral Donald B. Duncan, Vice Chief of Naval Operations
Hon. Allen W. Dulles, Director of Central Intelligence
Hon. Sherman Adams, Assistant to the President
Hon. Wilton B. Persons, Deputy Assistant to the President
Hon. Dillon Anderson, Special Assistant to the President
Hon. Joseph Dodge, Special Assistant to the President
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster, White House Staff Secretary
Commander Jack E. Mansfield, Department of the Navy
Dr. Alan T. Waterman, National Science Foundation
Hon. James S. Lay, Executive Secretary, NSC
Hon. S. Everett Gleason, Deputy Executive Secretary, NSC
11:30 am
Hon. Allen Dulles
(until 11:40 am)
11:40 am
The President departed the office and went to the Mansion.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 1956
Page 2
1:00 pm
LUNCH
1:40 pm
The President returned to the office
2:00 pm
Hon. H. Chapman Rose
(Came to say goodbye to the President after
resigning as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury).
2:15 pm
Hon. Gabriel Hauge
(Saw the President re economic report)
3:20 pm
Hon. Sherman Adams
3:25 pm
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
3:45 pm
The following, representing the United States at the
Inauguration of the President of Liberia, came
in to see the President:
Senator Robert Upton
Lt. General Leon W. Johnson, USAF
Mrs. Jessie Vann
Editor, Pittsburg Courier
Mr. Asa T. Spaulding
President, Mutual Life Insurance of N. C.
Mr. Garfield I. Kaas
Washington, D. C., Real Estate Dealer
Brig. General H. H. Twitchell
Lt. Colonel Edward M. Koloski
Lt. Wilson C. Barnes
Mr. Alexander Davitt, Liberian Desk, U. S. State Dept.
4:00 pm
The President departed the office and went to the Mansion.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 1956
8:45 am
The President came to the office, accompanied by
Mr. W. Alton Jones ("Pete" Jones).
9:15 am
Mr. Charles Tompkins, General Chairman,
1956 Red Cross Campaign for the Washington
Metropolitan Area
Hon. Douglas McKay, Chairman of the Government Unit
in the Washington Metropolitan Area Red Cross Campaign
Mr. Daniel W. Bell, Chairman, District Chapter,
American Red Cross
Mr. Randolph G. Bishop, Fund Director, Metropolitan
Area Campaign
9:30 am
(Congressman Daniel Reed of New York)
(Congressman John Taber of New York)
(Hon. Wilton B. Persons)
OFF THE RECORD
10:00 am
Hon. John Foster Dulles
Hon. George M. Humphrey
Hon. Charles E. Wilson
Admiral Lewis L. Strauss
Hon. Dillon Anderson
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
(with the President until 11:20 am)
11:20 am
Admiral Lewis L. Strauss
(until 11:35 am)
11:55 am
The President departed the office and went to the Mansion.
1:00 pm
LUNCH
No further activity this date.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, 1956
8:52 am
The President arrived at the office.
9:10 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Kevin McCann
Hon. James Hagerty
(until 9:30 am)
10:20 am
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
(in with the President until 10:30 am)
10:45 am
Mr. George Allen
11:00 am
The President departed the office.
No further activity this date.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
SUNDAY, JANUARY 15, 1956
10:51 am
The President and Mrs. Eisenhower departed the
White House and motored to National Presbyterian
Church.
10:55 am
Arrived at the National Presbyterian Church where
they attended the 11:00 A. M. Services.
12:07 pm
Departed the Church and motored to the White
House.
12:09 pm
Arrived at the White House.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 1956
8:05 am
The President arrived at the office.
8:10 am
Hon. Kevin McCann
8:20 am
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
8:37 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. James Hagerty
9:00 am
CABINET MEETING
The President
Hon. John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State
Hon. George M. Humphrey, Secretary of the Treasury
Hon. Charles E. Wilson, Secretary of Defense
Hon. Herbert Brownell, the Attorney General
Hon. Arthur Summerfield, the Postmaster General
Hon. Douglas McKay, Secretary of the Interior
Hon. True D. Morse, Under Secretary of Agriculture
Hon. Sinclair Weeks, Secretary of Commerce
Hon. James P. Mitchell, Secretary of Labor
Hon. Marion B. Folsom, Secretary of Health, Education
and Welfare
Hon. Rowland Hughes, Director, Bureau of the Budget
Hon. Percival Brundage, Deputy Director of the Bureau of
the Budget
Hon, Arthur Flemming, Director, ODM
Hon. Philip Young, Chairman, Civil Service Commission
Hon. Arthur Burns, Council of Economic Advisers
Mr. Joseph S. Davis, Council of Economic Advisers
Mr. Raymond J. Saulnier, Council of Economic Advisers
Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., U. S. Representative to the U.N.
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Harold E. Stassen
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
Hon. James Hagerty
Hon. Gabriel Hauge
Hon. Gerald Morgan
Hon. Fred Seaton
Hon. Bryce Harlow
Hon. Jack Martin
Hon. Murray Snyder
Hon. Maxwell Rabb
Hon. Bradley Patterson
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
Hon, Arthur Minnich
Absent: The Secretary of Agriculture
MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 1956
Page 2
11:25 am
Hon. John Foster Dulles
Hon. Sherman Adams
(until 11:30 am)
11:30 am
Hon. John Foster Dulles (alone)
11:35 am
Hon. John Foster Dulles
Hon. James Hagerty
11:50 am
The President departed the office and went to the Mansion.
1:00 pm
LUNCH
1:55 pm
The President returned to the office.
2:05 pm
Dr. Arthur Burns
2:25 pm
Hon. Dillon Anderson
(until 2:50 pm)
2:50 pm
Hon. Rowland Hughes
3:10 pm
William Jackson
John H. Whitney Company, New York
3:40 pm
Hon. George M. Humphrey
(until 4:20 pm)
4:20 pm
Hon. Gerald Morgan
4:55 pm
The President departed the office and returned to the Mansion.
No further activity this date.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1956
8:12 am
The President arrived at the office.
9:00 am
Hon. Harold E. Stassen
(until 9:40 am)
9:40 am
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
10:00 am
Hon, Herbert Hoover, Sr.
Hon. Clarence Francis
Hon. Meyer Kestnbaum
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
10:30 am
Hon. Herbert Brownell
(until 11:05 am)
11:05 am
(Mr. Edward Bermingham) OFF THE RECORD
11:30 am
Hon. Gabriel Hauge
12:15 pm
The President departed the office.
1:00 pm
LUNCH
5:00 pm
The President returned to his office.
5:15 pm
Hon. Herbert Brownell
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon, James Hagerty
5:45 pm
The President returned to the Mansion.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1956
8:15 am
The President arrived at the office.
8:20 am
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
8:22 am
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
8:45 am
The following gathered in the Cabinet Room to present
to President and Mrs. Eisenhower a painting by
Grandma Moses of the Gettysburg Farm, This
gift was for Inaugural anniversary:
The Cabinet group
Hon. Oveta Culp Hobby
Miss Bertha Adkins
Hon. Theodore Streibert
Hon, Lewis L. Strauss
Top White House Staff
(Secretary Benson and Secretary Mitchell
were unable to attend).
9:00 am
NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL
The President
Hon. Richard T. Nixon
Hon. John Foster Dulles
Hon. Charles E. Wilson
Hon. Arthur Flemming
Hon. George M. Humphrey
Hon. Herbert Brownell, Jr.
Hon. Sinclair Weeks
Hon. Rowland Hughes
Hon. Harold E. Stassen
Hon. Lewis L. Strauss
Hon. Theodore C. Streibert
Hon. Wilbur Brucker, Secretary of the Army
Hon. Charles Sparks Thomas, Secretary of the Navy
Hon. James H. Douglas, Under Secretary of the Navy
Hon, Reuben Robertson, Deputy Secretary of Defense
General Nathan F. Twining, for the Chairman, Joint Chiefs
of Staff
General Maxwell D. Taylor, Chief of Staff, U. S. Army
Admiral Donald B. Duncan, Vice Chief of Naval Operations
General Randolph McC. Pate, Commandant, U.S. Marine Corps
Hon. John B. Hollister, Director, ICA
WEDNESDAY, January 18, 1956
Page 2
9:00 am
NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL (Continued)
Office of Assistant Secretary of Defense for
Supply and Logistics
Thomas P. Pike
Robert C. Lanphier, Jr., Deputy Assistant Secretary
Lt. Colonel William J. Parsons
Chief Warrant Officer George Godia
Hon. Robert R. Bowie, Assistant Secretary of State
Lt. General Carter B. Magruder, Dept. of the Army
Vice Admiral Roscoe F. Good, Department of the Navy
Maj. General T. P. Gerrity, Dept. of the Air Force
Hon. Allen W. Dulles, Director of Central Intelligence
Hon. Sherman Adams, Assistant to the President
Hon. Wilton B. Persons, Deputy Assistant to the President
Hon. Dillon Anderson, Special Assistant to the President
Hon. James S. Lay, Jr., Executive Secretary, NSC
Hon. S. Everett Gleason, Deputy Executive Secretary, NSC
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
11:50 am
Hon, Charles E. Wilson, Secretary of Defense
Hon. Reuben B. Robertson, Deputy Secretary of Defense
General Nathan F. Twining, Chief of Staff, U. S. Air Force
Hon. Allen Dulles, Director, Central Intelligence Agency
Admiral Lewis L. Strauss, Director, Atomic Energy Commission
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
12:30 pm
Hon. Sherman Adams
12:50 pm
The President departed the office and returned to the Mansion.
2:10 pm
Returned to the office.
2:15 pm
Mr. Walter Rushmeyer
Colonel Robert L. Schulz
2:30 pm
(Hon. Oveta Culp Hobby)
(With the President until 3:45 pm) OFF THE RECORD
3:45 pm
(Mr. Robert Montgomery)
(Mr. George Murphy)
OFF THE RECORD
(Hon. James Hagerty)
4:35 pm
Hon. Sherman Adams
5:05 pm
The President departed the office.
Mr. Robert Woodruff saw the President at the Mansion.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1956
8:42 am
The President arrived in the office.
8:48 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. James Hagerty
(until 9:30 am)
9:45 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
Hon. James Hagerty
Hon. Fred Seaton
Hon. Howard Pyle
Hon. Murray Snyder
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
10:30 am
PRESS CONFERENCE
11:10 am
Hon. James B. Conant
U. S. Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany
11:40 am
Mr. Howard S. Cullman
Honorary Chairman, The Port of New York Authority
11:50 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Gabriel Hauge
12:10 pm
The President departed the office.
1:00 pm
LUNCH
(The President did not return to the office in the afternoon).
5:00 pm
The following met OFF THE RECORD in the Oval Room of
the Mansion:
(Hon. John Foster Dulles)
(Hon. Herbert Hoover, Jr.)
(Hon. John Hollister)
(Hon. George M. Humphrey)
(Hon. Joseph Dodge)
(Hon. Sherman Adams)
(Hon. Gabriel Hauge)
OFF THE RECORD
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 1956
8:30 am
The President arrived at the office, accompanied by
Mr. Robert Woodruff.
8:31 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
9:50 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
10:10 am
Hon. John Foster Dulles
Hon. Morehead Patterson
10:45 am
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
11:30 am
The President departed the office and went to the Mansion.
1:00 pm
(Mr. Clifford Roberts)
(Had lunch with the President)
OFF THE RECORD
1:50 pm
The President returned to the office.
(Accompanied by Mr. Clifford Roberts) OFF THE RECORD
2:35 pm
(Mr. Robert Montgomery)
(Hon. James Hagerty)
OFF THE RECORD
2:50 pm
Dr. Arthur Burns
Dr. Gabriel Hauge
(until 3:20 pm)
3:45 pm
The President departed the office and went to the Mansion.
9:35 pm
The President and First Lady departed the White House
and motored to the Sheraton Park Hotel for the
Salute to Eisenhower Dinner.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
SATURDAY, JANUARY 21, 1956
9:08 am
The President arrived at the office.
9:10 am
Hon. James Hagerty
9:22 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
9:35 am
(Mr. Robert Montgomery)
OFF THE RECORD
9:50 am
(Mr. Walter Ruschmeyer)
(Mr. Frank Donohue)
OFF THE RECORD
(Colonel Robert L. Schulz)
11:15 am
(Mr. Paul Hoffman)
(Hon. Sherman Adams)
OFF THE RECORD
11:20 am
The President departed the office, accompanied by
Mr. Goerge Allen, and motored to the Gettysburg Farm.
1:20 pm
Arrived at the Farm.
The President, accompanied by General Arthur Nevins,
walked around the barns at the Feaster Farm until 1:50 pm,
then walked to the main Farm, arriving there at 1:55 pm.
Here he conferred with Chief West and examined the barn.
2:10 pm
The President departed the Farm and proceeded to the old
schoolhouse.
2:25 pm
Departed the old school house and motored to the farm of
Mr. George Allen, arriving there at 2:30 pm.
2:50 pm
The President, accompanied by Mr. George Allen, departed
the Allen farm and motored to Washington, D. C.
4:50 pm
Arrived at the White House.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
SUNDAY, JANUARY 22, 1956
8:50 am
The President departed the White House and motored to
the National Presbyterian Church.
8:53 am
Arrived at the Church. The President attended the 9:00 am
services,
9:57 am
The President departed the Church.
10:01 am
Arrived at the White House.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
MONDAY, JANUARY 23, 1956
8:15 am
The President arrived at the office.
10:00 am
The following met with the President in the Cabinet Room for
the presentation of the report of the Net Evaluation
Subcommittee of the National Security Council:
Hon. John Foster Dulles
Hon. Charles E. Wilson
Admiral Lewis L. Strauss
Admiral Arthur W. Radford
Hon. Dillon Anderson
The following attended the meeting OFF THE RECORD:
(Lt. General Harold L. George, U. S. Air Force)
Director of the Staff of the Net Evaluation Subcommittee
(Major General Gordon D. Rogers, U. S. Army)
Deputy Director of Staff
(Dr. L. L. Montague, CIA) Member of Staff
(Colonel Richard P. Ross, U. S. Marine Corps)
Member of Staff
(Colonel Worth L. Kindred, U. S. Army)
Member of Staff
(Colonel Edward A. Herbes, U. S. Air Force)
Member of Staff
(Colonel S. D. Kelsey, U. S. Air Force)
Member of Staff
11:05 am
Hon. John Foster Dulles
11:45 am
The President departed the office and went to the Mansion.
1:00 pm
(LUNCH)
2:02 pm
The President returned to the office.
2:15 pm
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
2:37 pm
The President met with the following members of the Board of
Consultants on Foreign Intelligence Activities:
Dr. James R. Killian, Jr.
Admiral Richard L. Conolly
Lt. General James H. Doolittle
Mr. Benjamin F. Fairless
General John E. Hull
Hon. Joseph P. Kennedy
Mr. Edward L. Ryerson
Hon. Allen Dulles
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
MONDAY, JANUARY 23, 1956
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3:15 pm
(Hon. Leonard Hall)
(Mr. Clifford Folger)
(Hon. Sherman Adams)
OFF THE RECORD
4:40 pm
The President departed the office and went to the Mansion.
5:30 pm
Senator Walter F. George
(Saw the President at the Mansion)
Hon. John Foster Dulles
(Joined the above later)
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1956
8:25 am
The President arrived at the office.
8:30 am
Hon. James Hagerty
8:40 am
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
8:47 am
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
9:00 am
LEGISLATIVE LEADERS (The President presiding)
Senator Styles Bridges
Senator William Knowland
Senator Leverett Saltonstall
Senator George D. Aiken
Congressman Leo Allen
Congressman Leslie Arends
Congressman Charles Halleck
Congressman Joseph Martin
Congressman Clifford R. Hope
Congressman Samuel K. McConnell
Honorable Ezra Taft Benson
Mr. Jack Anderson, Department of Agriculture
Hon. Herold C. Hunt, Under Secretary of Health, Education
and Welfare
Hon. Bradshaw Mintner, Assistant Secretary of Health,
Education and Welfare
Hon. Roswell B. Perkins, Assistant Secretary of Health,
Education and Welfare
Dr. Samuel M. Brownell, Commissioner, Office of Education
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
Hon. James Hagerty
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
Hon. Gerald Morgan
Hon. Kevin McCann
Hon. Fred Seaton
Hon. Howard Pyle
Hon. Murray Snyder
Hon. Homer Gruenther
Hon. Bryce Harlow
Hon. Gabriel Hauge
Hon. I. Jack Martin
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
10:30 am
Hon. James Hagerty
TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1956
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11:30 am
The President departed the office and went to the Mansion.
1:00 pm
LUNCH
1:50 pm
The President returned to the office.
1:52 pm
Hon. James Hagerty
2:20 pm
Hon. Dillon Anderson
Hon. James S. Lay
3:00 pm
(Mr. Thomas Watson, Sr.)
(Of International Business Machines)
OFF THE RECORD
4:10 pm
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
4:50 pm
The President departed the office and returned to the Mansion.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1956
8:25 am
The President arrived at the office.
8:27 am
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
9:00 am
Hon. Kevin McCann
9:20 am
Hon. James Hagerty
9:25 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
9:30 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
Hon. James Hagerty
Hon. Gerald Morgan
Hon. Fred Seaton
Hon. Gabriel Hauge
Hon. Murray Snyder
10:30 am
PRESS CONFERENCE
11:10 am
Hon. Clare Boothe Luce
Colonel An drew J. Goodpaster
11:30 am
H. E. Georgi N. Zaroubin (Presented Bulganin letter to President)
Ambassador of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Hon. John Foster Dulles
Mr. Alexander Logofet
Interpreter from Department of State
11:45 am
Hon. John Foster Dulles
Hon. James Hagerty
11:50 am
Hon. John Foster Dulles
(saw the President alone until 12:05 pm)
12:05 pm
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
12:10 pm
The President departed the office and went to the Mansion.
1:00 pm
LUNCH
2:01 pm
The President arrived at the office.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1956
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2:10 pm
Hon. Meyer Kestnbaum
Hon. Philip Young
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
2:30 pm
Hon. John Foster Dulles
Hon. Douglas MacArthur, II
Hon. Livingston Merchant
Mr. Carl McArdle
Hon. James Hagerty
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
3:35 pm
Hon. Gerald Morgan
4:15 pm
The President departed the office and went to the Mansion.
5:30 pm
(His Royal Highness Bernhard, Prince of the Netherlands)
(Saw the President at the Mansion)
OFF THE RECORD
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 1956
8:22 am
The President arrived at the office.
8:24 am
Hon. James Hagerty
8:28 am
Hon. Carter L. Burgess, Assistant Secretary of Defense
for Manpower, Personnel and Reserve
8:56 am
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
9:03 am
NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL (274th Meeting)
The President
Hon. John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State
Hon. Robert W. Bowie, Assistant Secretary of State
Hon. Charles E. Wilson, Secretary of Defense
Hon. Reuben Robertson, Deputy Secretary of Defense
Hon. George M. Humphrey, Secretary of the Treasury
Hon. Herbert Brownell, Jr., the Attorney General
Hon. Sinclair Weeks, Secretary of Commerce
Hon. Harold E. Stassen, Special Assistant to the President
Hon. Percival Brundage, Acting Director, Bureau of the Budget
Hon. Lewis L. Strauss, Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission
Hon. Theodore C, Streibert, Director, U. S. I. A.
Admiral Arthur W. Radford, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
Hon. Allen W. Dulles, Director of Central Intelligence
Mr. Victor E. Cooley, Acting Director, ODM
Hon, Sherman Adams
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
Hon. Dillon Anderson
Hon. Joseph Dodge
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
Hon. James S. Lay, Jr.
Hon. S. Everett Gleason
11:20 am
Hon. John Foster Dulles
Hon. Charles E. Wilson
Hon. Harold E. Stassen
Hon. Allen W. Dulles
Admiral Arthur E. Radford
Hon. Dillon Anderson
11:30 am
General Mark Clark
(until 11:55 am)
THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 1956
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12:05 pm
The President departed the office and went to the Mansion.
1:15 pm
(Mr. Sigurd S. Larmon had lunch with the President) OFF THE RECORI
2:15 pm
The President returned to the office
2:15 pm
Hon. Sherman Adams
2:20 pm
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
2:25 pm
Hon. James Hagerty
2:30 pm
Hon. Percival F. Brundage
2:33 pm
Hon. John Foster Dulles
Hon. Douglas MacArthur, II
Hon. Livingston Merchant
Hon. George V. Allen
Mr. Francis H. Russell
3:50 pm
Hon. John Foster Dulles
3:55 pm
Hon. Gerald Morgan
4:05 pm
Hon. Sherman Adams
4:15 pm
The President departed the office.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1956
8:17 am
The President arrived at the office,
8:20 am
Mr. William J. Hopkins
8:30 am
Hon. James Hagerty
8:40 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Gerald Morgan
8:50 am
Hon. Charles E. Wilson
Hon. Herbert Brownell
Judge Stephen Jackson
Mr. Mansfield Sprague, General Counsel, Department of Defense
Hon. Gerald Morgan
9:00 am
CABINET MEETING
The President
Hon. John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State
Mr. Herman Phleger, Legal Adviser, Department of State
Hon. George M. Humphrey, Secretary of the Treasury
Hon. Charles E. Wilson, Secretary of Defense
Hon. Herbert Brownell, Attorney General
Hon. Arthur Summerfield, Postmaster General
Hon, Douglas McKay, Secretary of the Interior
Hon. Ezra Taft Benson, Secretary of Agriculture
Hon. Sinclair Weeks, Secretary of Commerce
Hon. James P. Mitchell, Secretary of Labor
Hon. Marion B. Folsom, Secretary of Health, Education and
Welfare
Hon. Percival Brundage, Deputy Director, Bureau of the Budget
Hon. Philip Young, Chairman, Civil Service Commission
Hon. Arthur Burns, Council of Economic Advisers
Hon. Victor Cooley, Deputy Director, ODM
Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., U. S. Representative to the U.N.
Hon. Wesley A. D'Ewart, Assistant Secretary of the Interior
Mr. Conrad L. Wirth, Director, National Park Service
Mr. Joseph Winslow, Civil Service Commission
Mr. Warren B. Irons, Civil Service Commission
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
Hon. Gerald Morgan
Hon. Fręd Seaton
FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1956
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9:00 am
CABINET MEETING (Continued)
Hon. Bryce Harlow
Hon. Kevin McCann
Hon. Murray Snyder
Hon. I. Jack Martin
Hon. Gabriel Hauge
Hon. Howard Pyle
Hon. Maxwell Rabb
Hon. Bradley Patterson
Hon. Arthur Minnich
The following were absent:
The Vice President
Hon. Rowland Hughes
Hon, Arthur Flemming
10:50
Hon. Herbert Brownell
Hon. George M. Humphrey
11:00 am
Hon. Arthur Summerfield
11:45 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
11:50 am
The President departed the office and went to the Mansion.
1:00 pm
LUNCH
1:40 pm
The President returned to the office.
1:45 pm
Hon. Joseph Dodge
2:30 pm
Hon. John Foster Dulles
Hon. Walter S. Robertson, Assistant Secretary of State
Hon. Livingston Merchant, Assistant Secretary of State
Hon. Douglas MacArthur, II, Department of State
(Admiral Arthur Radford) OFF THE RECORD
3:07 pm
The following joined the 2:30 pm group: OFF THE RECORD
(Mr. Gerard C. Smith) Special Assistant to Secretary of State
(General Herbert B. Loper) Assistant to Secretary of Defense
(Dr. W. F. Libby) Commissioner, Atomic Energy Commission
3:25 pm
Hon. John Foster Dulles (alone)
3:27 pm
Mr. Herman Phleger
Hon. Livingston Merchant
(Joined Hon. John Foster Dulles in the President's office).
FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1956
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3:50 pm
(Mr. William E. Robinson)
OFF THE RECORD
4:00 pm
The President departed the office and went to the Mansion.
6:00 pm
(Hon. John Foster Dulles)
OFF THE RECORD
(Saw the President at the Mansion).
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 1956
8:50 am
The President arrived at the office,
8:53 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. James Hagerty
9:10 am
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
9:30 am
Hon. Jack Westland
(The Congressman from the State of Washington
presented the President with the Ben Hogan Golf
Trophy. Mr. Murray Snyder and press photo-
graphers covered the presentation).
9:50 am
The President, accompanied by Hon. Bernard M. Shanley,
departed the White House and motored to the National
Gallery of Art to view the Asian Artists in Crystal
exhibition. He also viewed a collection of rock
crystal, Mazarin tapestry and Chinese porcelain.
He was accompanied on the tour by the following:
Hon. and Mrs. David Finley, Director, National Gallery
Mr. George T. Heckert, Assistant Administrator
Mrs. Yvette Andrews, Steuben Glass Company, New York
Mrs. Sydney Waugh, Steuben Glass Company
Miss Margot Potter, Steuben Glass Company
Miss Dawn Lille, Steuben Glass Company
10:29 am
Departed the National Gallery.
10:33 am
Arrived at the White House.
10:37 am
Hon. Gerald Morgan
10:53 am
Hon. Dillon Anderson
11:10 am
The President departed the office and went to the Mansion.
2:35 pm
(Major General Edward Peck Curtis, Retired) OFF THE RECORD
(Saw the President at the Mansion until 3:50 pm.
General Curtis is Vice President of the Eastman Kodak
Company, 343 State Street, Rochester, New York)
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
SUNDAY, JANUARY 29, 1956
10:53 am
The President and Mrs. Eisenhower departed the
White House and motored to the National Presbyterian
Church.
10:57 am
Arrived at the Church.
12:23 pm
Departed the National Presbyterian Church and arrived
at the White House at 12:26 pm.
2:43 pm
The President and Mrs. Eisenhower departed the White
House and motored to Fort Belvoir, Virginia, arriving
at the Essayons Theatre at 3:17 pm.
3:30 pm
Attended the dance recital at the Essayons Theatre.
Barbara Ann and Susan Eisenhower participated in the recital.
Major General Louis Prentiss sat with the President and
Mrs. Eisenhower. Later, Lt. Colonel Myron Brewer
joined them.
4:48 pm
Dance recital over, the President and Mrs. Eisenhower
motored to the residence of Major John Eisenhower.
They visited with the family until 6:03 pm, when they
motored back to the White House.
6:46 pm
Arrived at the White House.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
MONDAY, JANUARY 30, 1956
8:40 am
The President arrived at the office.
8:42 am
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
10:15 am
Hon. James Hagerty
10:30 am
Mr. Ted Peterson
(Hon. Herbert Hoover, Jr.)
OFF THE RECORD
11:20 am
The President departed the office and went to the Mansion.
12:45 pm
Hon. John Foster Dulles
1:00 pm
Prime Minister Anthony Eden
The Right Honorable Selwyn Lloyd, British Foreign Secretary
(The above arrived at the North Portico and were
greeted by the President and Hon. John Foster Dulles.
They then proceeded into the Mansion for luncheon).
2:25 pm
The President returned to the office.
3:45 pm
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
4:00 pm
The President met with the following in the Cabinet Room:
Prime Minister Anthony Eden
Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd
Sir Roger Makins, British Ambassador to the U. S.
Hon. John Foster Dulles
Hon. Herbert Hoover
Hon. Livingston Merchant
Hon. Winthrop W. Aldrich, Ambassador to Great Britian
Hon. George Allen
Hon. Douglas MacArthur
The following were advisers:
Mr. Cottman (U. S.)
Messrs. Caccia, Rowan, and Shuckburgh (United Kingdom)
5:25 pm
The President departed the office and went to the Mansion.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1956
8:25 am
The President arrived at the office.
8:27 am
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
8:31 am
Hon. James Hagerty
8:40 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
Hon. Gerald Morgan
9:00 am
LEGISLATIVE LEADERS
Senator William F. Knowland
Senator Styles Bridges
Senator Leverett Saltonstall
Senator Edward Martin
Senator Arthur V. Watkins
Senator Clifford P. Case
Congressman Joseph Martin
Congressman Charles Halleck
Congressman Leslie Arends
Congressman Leo Allen
Congressman George A. Dondero
Congressman J. Harry McGregor
Congressman Kenneth B. Keating
Congressman Thomas A. Jenkins
Congressman Daniel A. Reed
Hon. George M. Humphrey
Hon. Sinclair Weeks
Hon. Louis Rothschild
Hon. Philip Ray
Hon. Philip Young
Hon. William P. Rogers
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
Hon, James Hagerty
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
Hon. Gerald Morgan
Hon. Howard Pyle
Hon. I. Jack Martin
Hon. Earle D. Chesney
Hon. Homer Gruenther
Hon. Kevin McCann
Hon. Gabriel Hauge
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1956
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11:00 am
Dr. Arthur E. Burns
11:20 am
Hon. Gerald Morgan
11:55 am
The President departed the office and went to the Mansion.
1:00 pm
The President had the following guests for luncheon:
Prime Minister Anthony Eden
Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd
Ambassador Roger Makins
Sir Leslie Rowan
Sir Harold Caccia
Hon. C. A. E. Shuckburgh
Hon. John Foster Dulles
Hon. Livingston Merchant
Hon, Douglas MacArthur, II
Hon. Walter S. Robertson
Hon. George V. Allen
Ambassador Winthrop W. Aldrich
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
2:35 pm
The President returned to his office, accompanied by
Prime Minister Anthony Eden
3:34 pm
Hon. Sherman Adams
3:36 pm
Governor George N. Craig of Indiana
John Craig (son of Governor of Indiana)
Hon. Sherman Adams
3:52 pm
The President joined the meeting in the Cabinet Room.
The following were in attendance:
Hon. John Foster Dulles
Hon. Robert Murphy, Deputy Under Secretary of State
Hon. Herbert V. Prochnow, Deputy Under Secretary
of State
Hon. Livingston Merchant, Assistant Secretary of State
Ambassador Winthrop Aldrich
Hon. Douglas MacArthur, II
Hon. Robert Bowie, Assistant Secretary of State
Hon. Francis O. Wilcox, Assistant Secretary of State
Hon. Harold E. Stassen
Hon. Gordon Gray, Assistant Secretary of Defense
Hon. Reuben Robertson, Deputy Secretary of Defense
Hon. Carl W. McCardle, Assistant Secretary of State
TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1956
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3:52 pm
Meeting in the Cabinet Room with British (Continued):
Mr. Ernest Lister, Department of State, Office of
British Commonwealth and Northern European Affairs
Mr. Benson E. L. Timmons, Bureau of Regional
European Affairs, Department of State
Mr. Louis W. Goodkind, Office of International Trade and
Resources, Economic Defense Division, Department
of State
Mr. Herman Phleger
Prime Minister Anthony Eden
Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd
Ambassador Roger Makins
Sir Harold Caccia
Sir Leslie Rowan
5:20 pm
The President left the Cabinet Room and returned to his office.
5:30 pm
The President, accompanied by Prime Minister Eden,
departed the office and went to the Mansion.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1956
8:25 am
The President arrived at the office.
9:00 am
Hon. Dillon Anderson
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
(Hon. Allen Dulles) OFF THE RECORD
9:20 am
Hon. Dillon Anderson
10:00 am
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
10:30 am
Hon. James Hagerty
10:35 am
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
10:50 am
(Major General Henry B. Sayler, Ret.) OFF THE RECORD
11:06 am
Hon. John Sherman Cooper, Ambassador to India and Nepal
Hon. Sherman Adams
11:40 am
The President departed the office and went to the Mansion.
12:00 pm
The following U. S. and British officials met in the Cabinet
Room. (The President did not join this group until they
met again after lunch, at 2:30 pm, in the Cabinet Room):
Hon. John Foster Dulles
Hon. Livingston Merchant, Assistant Secretary of State
Ambassador Winthrop W. Aldrich
Hon. Douglas MacArthur, Counselor of Department of State
Hon. Robert Bowie, Assistant Secrętary of State
Admiral Lewis L. Strauss, Chairman, Atomic Energy
Commission
Hon. Carl W. McCardle, Assistant Secretary of State
Hon. Reuben Robęrtson, Deputy Secretary of Defense
Hon. Harold E. Stassen
Admiral Arthur W. Radford
Mr. Gerard Smith, Special Assistant to the Secretary of State
Mr. J. Stewart Cottman
Prime Minister Anthony Eden
Hon. Selwyn Lloyd
Ambassador Roger Makins
Mr. Ian Samuel
Sir Harold Caccia
Sir Hubert Graves
Sir Leslie Rowan
Hon, C. A. E. Shuckburgh
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1956
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1:00 pm
LUNCH
2:25 pm
Prime Minister Anthony Eden
(Saw the President alone in his office).
2:30 pm
The President met with Prime Minister Anthony Eden,
Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd, Hon John Foster
Dulles, et al. (See 12:00 pm list).
3:45 pm
Ambassador Winthrop W. Aldrich
4:06 pm
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
4:15 pm
Colonel Robert L. Schulz
5:00 pm
The President departed the office and went to the Mansion.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1956
7:45 am
The President, accompanied by Hon. Sherman Adams,
departed the White House and motored to the
Mayflower Hotel to attend the Annual Prayer
*
Breakfast sponsored by the International Council
of Christian Leadership and given by Conrad Hilton.
(The invitation was extended to the President
by Senator Frank Carlson and Senator Price Daniel).
9:20 am
The President arrived at the office.
9:25 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Gerald Morgan
9:30 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Harold Stassen
9:55 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
10:10 am
Congressman Jere Cooper of Tennessee
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
10:30 am
Admiral Arthur Radford
11:09 am
Hon. Thomas E. Dewey
12:00 pm
Hon. Gerald Morgan
12:05 pm
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
12:15 pm
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
Hon. Gerald Morgan
12:27 pm
The President departed the office and went to the Mansion.
12:45 pm
The President departed the White House and motored to
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. He was accompanied by
Mrs. Elivera Doud.
*
(On the occasion of the Prayer Breakfast, the President was
presented the Inaugural Prayer Table (or desk) upon which he
wrote his Inaugural Prayer, 1953. Mr. Conrad Hilton made the
presentation)
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1956
GETTYSBURG, PA.
1:48 pm
President and Mrs. Eisenhower, accompanied by
Hon. James Hagerty, departed the Farm and
motored to the Courthouse in Gettysburg to
register to vote in the State of Pennsylvania.
1:56 pm
Arrived at the Courthouse. Here President and
Mrs. Eisenhower were greeted by the following:
Senator James H. Duff
Senator Edward Martin
Hon. Donald P. McPherson
Pennsylvania House of Representatives
Mr. John H. Bashore
Republican County Chairman, Adams County, Pa.
Hon. Francis Worley
Pennsylvania House of Representatives
Miss Ruth Orner, Vice Chairman
Mrs. A. W. Butterfield
President Adams County Women's Republican Council
Mrs. Emma Sheffer
Chairman of Political Activity Committee of
the Women's Council
While registering, President and Mrs. Eisenhower were
assisted by:
Mr. Roy H. Snyder
Deputy to the Adams County Commissioner
Mr. Clarence C. Smith
Chief Clerk to the Adams County Commissioner
2:07 pm
Departed the Courthouse and motored back to the Farm.
2:17 pm
Arrived at the Farm.
5:20 pm
General and Mrs. Arthur Nevins arrived at the Farm.
They departed the Farm at 7:00 pm.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1956
GETTYSBURG, PA.
10:00 am
The President, accompanied by Chief West, Agents
Campion and Flohr, rode around the Farm shooting
crows and looking over the livestock. He returned
to the house at 10:50 am.
12:45 pm
Hon. and Mrs. George Humphrey
Mrs. Alfred Gruenther
(Arrived at the Farm)
3:25 pm
The President, accompanied by Hon. George Humphrey,
walked from the house to the West Pasture attempting
to shoot pheasant. They returned to the house at 4:45 pm.
5:37 pm
General and Mrs. Nevins arrived at the Farm.
(Remained until 11:05 pm)
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1956
GETTYSBURG, PA.
10:00 am
The President, accompanied by Hon. George M. Humphrey,
walked around the Farm for a while, then rode over
portions of the Farm.
3:05 pm
The President, accompanied by Hon. George M. Humphrey,
inspected tools and other Farm equipment.
5:00 pm
Hon. and Mrs. George Humphrey departed the Farm.
5:45 pm
General and Mrs. Arthur Nevins arrived at the Farm.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1956
7:30 am
The President departed the Farm in Gettysburg and
motored to the Gettysburg Airport.
7:48 am
Airborne for Washington, D. C.
8:18 am
Arrived at MATS Terminal.
8:32 am
Arrived at the White House and went directly to the office.
9:05 am
Dr. Howard McC. Snyder
9:20 am
Commander Edward L. Beach
9:40 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
Hon. Gerald Morgan
10:00 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
10:10 am
Dr. Howard McC. Snyder
10:20 am
Hon. John Foster Dulles
11:17 am
Admiral Lewis L. Strauss joined Secretary Dulles
in the President's office,
11:40 am
Admiral Lewis L. Strauss (alone)
12:05 pm
The President departed the office and went to the Mansion,
2:07 pm
The President returned to the office.
2:30 pm
Mr. James Rowley
2:40 pm
Hon. Dillon Anderson
3:50 pm
Hon. Sherman Adams
4:15 pm
Commander Edward L. Beach
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
5:05 pm
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
5:14 pm
The President departed the office and went to the Mansion.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1956
8:09 am
The President arrived at the office,
8:13 am
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
8:38 am
Hon. Gerald Morgan
(Joined General Persons in the President's office)
8:55 am
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
9:00 am
LEGISLATIVE LEADERS
Senator William F. Knowland
Senator Styles Bridges
Senator Leverett Saltonstall
Senator George D. Aiken
Congressman Joseph Martin
Congressman Charles Halleck
Congressman Leslie Arends
Congressman Leo Allen
Congressman Clifford R. Hope
Hon. Ezra Taft Benson
Mr. Jack Anderson, Department of Agriculture
Hon. Rowland Hughes
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
Hon. James Hagerty
Hon. Gerald Morgan
Hon. Homer Gruenther
Hon. Earle D. Chesney
Hon. Fred Seaton
Hon. Gabriel Hauge
Hon. Bryce Harlow
Hon. I, Jack Martin
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
10:05 am
Hon. Ezra Taft Benson
Mr. Jack Anderson
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
10:15 am
Hon. Richard T. Nixon
10:45 am
Hon. Marion B. Folsom
Dr. Herold Hunt, Under Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare
Dr. Lowell T. Coggeshall, Special Assistant to Secretary Folsom
Hon. Sherman Adams
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1956
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11:22 am
Major General Kenyon A. Joyce, USA (Retired)
11:52 am
The President departed the office and went to the Mansion.
1:00 pm
LUNCH
2:00 pm
The President returned to the office,
2:25 pm
Hon. Maurice Stans, Deputy Postmaster General
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
(Mr. Shanley took Mr. Stans in to meet the President)
2:30 pm
CABINET MEETING
The President
The Vice President
Hon. John Foster Dulles
Hon. George M. Humphrey
Hon. Reuben Robertson, Jr., Deputy Secretary of Defense
Hon. William Robertson, Deputy Attorney General
Hon. Maurice Stans, Deputy Postmaster General
Hon. Douglas McKay
Hon. Ezra Taft Benson
Hon. Walter Williams, Under Secretary of Commerce
Hon. James P. Mitchell
Hon. Marion B. Folsom
Hon. Rowland Hughes
Hon. Arthur Flemming
Hon. Philip Young
Hon. Arthur E. Burns
Hon. Harold E. Stassen
Hon. Thurston Morton, Assistant Secretary of State
Mr. Joseph Winslow, Civil Service Commission
Hon, Roswell B. Perkins, Assistant Secretary of Health,
Education and Welfare
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
Hon. James Hagerty
Hon. Dillon Anderson
Hon. Gerald Morgan
Hon. Gabriel Hauge
Hon. Bryce Harlow
Hon. Murray Snyder
Hon. I. Jack Martin
Hon. Maxwell Rabb
Hon. Arthur Minnich
Hon. Bradley Patterson
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1956
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4:00 pm
Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
4:15 pm
NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL (275th Meeting) OFF THE RECORD
(Discussion on Disarmament)
(Hon. Richard T. Nixon)
(Hon. John Foster Dulles)
(Hon. George M. Humphrey)
(Hon. Reuben Robertson, Jr.)
(Hon. William P. Rogers)
(Hon. Arthur E. Flemming)
(Hon. Rowland Hughes)
(Hon. Arthur E. Radford)
(Hon. Lewis L. Strauss)
(Hon. Allen W. Dulles)
(Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.)
(Hon. Theodore Streibert)
(Hon. Harold E. Stassen)
(Hon. Dillon Anderson)
(Meeting was concluded at 6:02 pm)
6:04 pm
The President departed the Cabinet Room and went to the Mansion.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1956
8:23 am
The President arrived at the office.
8:24 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
9:05 am
Hon. Theodore Streibert, Director, USIA
Hon. Abbott Washburn, Deputy Director, USIA
9:35 am
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
9:50 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
Hon. James Hagerty
Hon. Gerald Morgan
Hon. Fred Seaton
Hon. Murray Snyder
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
10:30 am
PRESS CONFERENCE
11:00 am
H. E. Rene Mayer, President of the European Coal and Steel
Community High Authority
Ambassador W. Walton Butterworth, U. S. Representative
to the European Coal and Steel High Authority
Hon. Livingston Merchant
Hon. Gabriel Hauge
11:30 am
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
11:35 am
The President departed the office and went to the Mansion.
1:00 pm
The President gave a Stag Luncheon for the following:
H. E. The Ambassador of Lebanon, Dr. Victor A. Khouri
H. E. The Ambassador of Laos, Ourot R. Souvannavong
H. E. The Ambassador of Pakistan, Mohammed Ali
H. E. The Ambassador of Luxembourg, Hugues Le Gallais
H. E. The Ambassador of Iceland, Thor Thors
H. E. The Ambassador of the Philippines, Carlos Romulo
H. E. The Ambassador of Columbia, Francisco Urrutia Holguin
H. E. The Ambassador of Burma, U Win
H. E. The Ambassador of the Argentine Republic, Adolfo A.
Vicchi
H. E. The Ambassador of Haiti, Mauclair Zephinin
H. E. The Ambassador of Iran, Dr. Ali Amini
H. E. The Ambassador of Chile, Mario Rodriquez Altamirano
(continued)
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1956
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1:00 pm
Stag Luncheon (continued):
Hon. Herbert Hoover, Jr., Under Secretary of State
Hon. Livingston Merchant
Hon. Walter S. Robertson
Hon. Henry F. Holland
Hon. George V. Allen
Hon. John F. Simmons
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Harold E. Stassen
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
3:00 pm
The President practiced golf shots on the South grounds of
the White House.
(Later in the afternoon the President played bridge).
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1956
8:17 am
The President arrived at the office, accompanied by
General Alfred Gruenther.
8:22 am
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
8:35 am
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
Mrs. Mary Jane McCaffree
8:54 am
Hon. Dillon Anderson
9:00 am
NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL (276th Meeting)
The President
Hon. John Foster Dulles
Hon. Reuben Robertson, Jr.
Hon. Arthur Flemming
Hon. George Humphrey
Hon. William P. Rogers
Hon. Rowland R. Hughes
Hon. Harold E. Stassen
Hon. Lewis L. Strauss
Hon. Abbott Washburn
Admiral Arthur W. Radford
Hon. Allen W. Dulles
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
Hon. Dillon Anderson
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
Hon. Theodore Streibert, Director USIA
Hon. Robert Bowie, Department of State
Hon. James S. Lay, Jr.
Hon. S. Everett Gleason
11:07 am
Hon. John Foster Dulles
Hon. Dillon Anderson
11:15 am
Admiral Arthur Radford
1:00 pm
(Dr. Milton Eisenhower)
(Had lunch with the President - OFF THE RECORD)
2:45 pm
(Mr. F. L. Elmendorf, Robert Heller & Associates)
(Mr. Gilman B. Allen, Robert Heller & Associates)
(Mr. F. Moran McConihe)
(Hon. Sherman Adams, Hon. Wilton B. Persons, Col. A. J. Goodpaster)
(Reported to the President on the space study made of
Executive Offices)
OFF THE RECORD
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1956
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3:20 pm
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Kevin McCann
3:35 pm
(Hon. Leonard Hall)
OFF THE RECORD
4:00 pm
Hon. James Hagerty
4:05 pm
The President departed the office and went to the Mansion.
(Saw the dentist at this time).
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1956
8:10 am
The President arrived in the office.
8:15 am
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
8:30 am
Admiral Arthur W. Radford
General Nathan F. Twining
General Maxwell D. Taylor
Admiral Arleigh A. Burke
General Randolph McC. Pate
(Met with the President until 9:25 am)
9:25 am
Hon. Philip Young
Hon. Rowland Hughes
Hon. Sherman Adams
9:50 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
9:55 am
Hon. James Hagerty
9:57 am
Hon. Dillon Anderson
10:27 am
Hon. Lewis Strauss
Hon. Harold S. Vance
10:32 am
Hon. Eric Johnston
Chairman International Development Advisory Board
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
(Met with the President until 10:45 am)
11:10 am
The President departed the office and went to the Mansion.
1:00 pm
LUNCH
1:38 pm
The President arrived at the office.
1:45 pm
Hon. James Hagerty
1:58 pm
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
2:35 pm
Hon. George M. Humphrey
(With the President until 3:05 pm)
3:30 pm
Hon. John Foster Dulles
Hon. Harold Stassen
Hon. Dillon Anderson
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1956
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3:55 pm
Hon. Sherman Adams
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
4:09 pm
The President departed the office.
6:45 pm
(Hon. Robert Anderson)
OFF THE RECORD
(Saw the President at the Mansion)
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1956
8:30 am
The President arrived at the office.
8:32 am
Hon. James Hagerty
8:47 am
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
9:00 am
The President departed the office and went to the Mansion.
9:38 am
The President returned to the office.
10:45 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
11:00 am
The President departed the office and went to the Mansion.
1:00 pm
LUNCH
2:30 pm
The President and Mrs. Eisenhower departed the White House
and motored to Walter Reed Hospital where the President
underwent a complete physical examination.
2:50 pm
Arrived at Walter Reed. President and Mrs. Eisenhower
were greeted by Major General Leonard Heaton.
4:03 pm
Physical examination completed.
As the President was
departing the Hospital, he greeted Mrs. Virgil Peterson,
wife of Major General Virgil Peterson.
4:05 pm
The President departed the Hospital and motored to the
White House.
4:22 pm
Arrived at the White House.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1956
10:53 am
The President and Mrs. Eisenhower departed the
White House and motored to the National
Presbyterian Church. They attended the
11:00 am services.
12:14 pm
Departed the Church and motored to the White House.
12:18 pm
Arrived at the White House.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1956
8:22 am
The President arrived at the office,
8:40 am
Hon. James Hagerty
8:57 am
Hon. Herbert Brownell
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Gerald Morgan
9:00 am
CABINET MEETING
The President
Hon. Richard T. Nixon
Hon. Herbert Hoover, Jr.
Hon. George M. Humphrey
Hon. Reuben Robertson
Hon. Herbert Brownell
Hon. Arthur Summerfield
Hon, Douglas McKay
Hon. Ezra Taft Benson
Hon. Sinclair Weeks
Hon. James P. Mitchell
Hon. Marion B. Folsom
Hon. Rowland Hughes
Hon. Arthur Flemming
Hon. Philip Young
Hon. Arthur Burns
Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
Hon. Harold E. Stassen
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
Hon. James Hagerty
Hon. Gerald Morgan
Hon. Dillon Anderson
Hon. Gabriel Hauge
Hon. I. Jack Martin
Hon. Kevin McCann
Hon. Maxwell Rabb
Hon. Bryce Harlow
Hon. Murray Snyder
Hon. Arthur Minnich
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
Hon. Bradley Patterson
The following were absent:
The Secretary of State
The Secretary of Defense
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1956
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10:30 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
10:55 am
Hon. James P. Mitchell
11:03 am
The President, accompanied by Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
and Hon. James Hagerty, departed the White House
and motored to Union Station to view the "Peoples
Capitalism" exhibit which was sponsored by the
Advertising Council for the United States Information
Agency.
11:30 am
Departed Union Station and motored to the White House.
11:35 am
Arrived at the White House and went to the office.
11:40 am
Departed the office and went to the Mansion.
1:00 pm
LUNCH
1:47 pm
The President returned to the office.
2:15 pm
Hon, Dillon Anderson
2:30 pm
Colonel Russell Reeder
(Colonel Reeder is an instructor at West Point.
The President read some of his western stories
during his illness, and expressed a desire to
meet Colonel Reeder.)
3:00 pm
(Hon. Jerome K. Kuykendall)
OFF THE RECORD
Chairman, Federal Power Commission
(Hon. Gerald Morgan)
(Discussed the Natural Gas Bill with the President)
3:40 pm
Hon. Gabriel Hauge
4:05 pm
Mr. Charles H. Tompkins
4:45 pm
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
Hon. Gerald Morgan
Hon. I. Jack Martin
5:15 pm
The President departed the office and went to the Mansion.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1956
8:09 am
The President arrived at the office.
8:30 am
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
8:52 am
Hon. Arthur Flemming
9:15 am
Colonel William Draper
9:20 am
Hon. Herbert Brownell
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
Hon. Gerald Morgan
9:30 am
LEGISLATIVE LEADERS
The President
Hon. Richard T. Nixon
Senator William F. Knowland
Senator Styles Bridges
Congressman Joseph W. Martin
Congressman Charles A. Halleck
Congressman Leo E. Allen
Congressman Leslie C. Arends
Hon. Herbert Brownell
Hon. Reuben Robertson
Hon. Donald Quarles
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
Hon. James Hagerty
Hon. Gerald Morgan
Hon. Bryce Harlow
Hon. I. Jack Martin
Hon. Fred Seaton
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
11:21 am
Hon. Richard T. Nixon
Hon. Herbert Brownell
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
11:45 am
Dr. Paul Dudley White
-11:50 am
The President departed the office and went to the Mansion.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1956
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1:00 pm
LUNCH
1:40 pm
The President arrived at the office.
1:47 pm
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
2:00 pm
Dr. Paul Dudley White
Dr. Howard McC. Snyder
Major General Leonard D. Heaton
Colonel Byron E. Pollock
Colonel Thomas W. Mattingly
Major Walter Tkach
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. James Hagerty
(Gave the President the report on his physical
examination at Walter Reed Hospital on February 11,
and on the examination made by Dr. White on this
date - February 14, 1956).
2:45 pm
Hon. Arthur Burns
3:20 pm
Dr. Gabriel Hauge joined Dr. Burns in the President's office.
3:40 pm
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
4:10 pm
Hon. James Hagerty
4:30 pm
Hon. Wilton B. Persons joined Mr. Hagerty in the
President's office.
5:15 pm
The President departed the office and went to the Mansion.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1956
7:50 am
The President arrived at the office.
8:02 am
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
Mr. Howell Crim
8:15 am
Colonel Robert L. Schulz
8:17 am
Hon. Gerald Morgan
8:30 am
(Hon. Herbert Brownell, Jr.)
OFF THE RECORD
(Hon. Sherman Adams)
(Hon. Wilton B. Persons)
(Hon. James Hagerty)
(Hon. Gerald Morgan)
9:15 am
Hon. Charles E. Wilson
(This group came in On Record,
Hon. Arthur Radford
however, subject for discussion
Hon. Herbert Hoover, Jr.
was OFF RECORD: Re Bulganin
Hon. Reuben Robertson
letter).
Hon. Harold Stassen
Hon. Lewis Strauss
Hon. Robert Bowie
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
9:50 am
Hon. Charles E. Wilson
Hon. Gerald Morgan
10:00 am
The President presented to Dr. John von Neumann the
Medal of Freedom. The citation accompanying
the Medal was read by the President. Those who
witnessed the ceremony were:
Mrs. John von Neumann
Mrs. Margaret von Neumann, mother of Dr. von Neumann
Hon. Charles E. Wilson
Hon. Lewis L. Strauss
Hon. Donald Quarles
Hon. Reuben Robertson
Hon. Clifford C. Furnas
Hon. R. W. Cook
Dr. W. F. Libby, A. E. C.
Hon. Harold S. Vance
Mr. Thomas E. Murray
Lt. Colonel Vincent Ford
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1956
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10:14 am
The President and Mrs. Eisenhower departed the
White House.
10:15 am
As the President left the Southwest Gate, he alighted
from his car and exchanged greetings with a
group of foreign students who were assembled
at this point. (New York Herald Tribune Forum Delegates)
10:28 am
Arrived at MATS Terminal where the President and
First Lady were greeted by Colonel Draper.
10:35 am
Airborne for Spence Field, Moultrie, Georgia.
Those accompanying the President on the Columbine were:
Mrs. Eisenhower
Mrs. Elivira Doud
Hon. and Mrs. George Humphrey
General Howard McC. Snyder
Hon. and Mrs. James Hagerty
Mrs. Ann Whitman
Miss Mary Caffrey
Sgt. and Mrs. John Moaney
1:29 pm
Arrived at Spence Air Force Base, Moultrie, Georgia.
1:37 pm
Departed Spence Field and motored to Milestone Plantation
outside Thomasville, Georgia.
2:45 pm
Arrived at Milestone Plantation.
3:11 pm
The President, Hon. George Humphrey, and General Snyder
departed the house and went hunting.
6:04 pm
Returned from hunting.
8:22 pm
Hon. James Hagerty arrived at the Plantation.
(He departed at 9:40 pm).
10:00 pm
The President retired for the evening
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1956
THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA
MILESTONE PLANTATION
7:45 am
The President walked from his cottage to the main house.
8:57 am
The President, Hon. George M. Humphrey, and General Snyder
departed the Plantation via car and proceeded to the
hunting area.
9:15 am
Arrived at the hunting area and boarded mule wagons for a
quail hunt.
11:50 am
The President and his party left the mule wagons, entered
the car and returned to the Plantation, arriving at
12:03 pm.
(The President shot 3 quail).
1:56 pm
The President, Hon. George M. Humphrey, and General Snyder
went quail hunting. (The President shot 10 quail).
5:27 pm
Hunting discontinued.
5:40 pm
Arrived back at the main house of the Plantation.
5:44 pm
Hon. James Hagerty arrived at the Plantation, (Departed at 6:30 pm).
8:00 pm
DINNER
President and Mrs. Eisenhower
Hon. and Mrs. George M. Humphrey
Mr. and Mrs. Jock Whitney
General Howard McC. Snyder
Mr. William Robinson
8:50 pm
Hon. James Hagerty arrived at the Plantation.
9:00 pm
The President played bridge with the following:
Hon. George M. Humphrey
Mr. Jock Whitney
Mr. William Robinson
12:35 am
Mr. and Mrs. Jock Whitney departed the Plantation.
(Friday)
12:40 am
The President and Mrs. Eisenhower retired to their cottage.
(Friday)
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1956
THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA
MILESTONE PLANTATION
8:24 am
The President entered the main house for breakfast.
9:20 am
The President departed the main house and returned to
his cottage.
9:54 am
The President, Hon. George M. Humphrey, General Snyder,
and Hon. James Hagerty departed the Plantation and
motored to the Glen Arven Country Club.
10:15 am
Arrived at the Glen Arven Country Club.
The President was greeted by:
Mr. Gordon Hasty, General Manager of Milestone
Plantation
Mr. John H. Walter, golf pro at Glen Arven
Mr. Lloyd H. Magahee, President of Glen Arven Club
10:28 am
The President teed off with the following:
Hon. James Hagerty
Mr. Lloyd H. Magahee
Mr. John H. Walter
12:00 noon
Completed nine holes of golf.
12:08 pm
Departed the Glen Arven Country Club and motored to the
Plantation.
12:23 pm
Arrived at the Plantation.
1:30 pm
The President departed his cottage and walked to the main house.
3:10 pm
The President played bridge with the following:
Hon. George M. Humphrey
Mr. Jock Whitney
Mr. Bill Robinson
7:30 pm
DINNER
President and Mrs. Eisenhower
Hon. and Mrs. George M. Humphrey
Mrs. Elivira Doud
General Howard McC. Snyder
Mr. Jock Whitney
Mr. Bill Robinson
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1956
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9:00 pm
The President played bridge with the following:
Hon. George M. Humphrey
Mr. Jock Whitney
Mr. Bill Robinson
11:30 pm
The President retired for the evening.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1956
THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA
MILESTONE PLANTATION
8:04 am
The President departed his cottage and walked to the main
house for breakfast.
8:47 am
Returned to the cottage.
9:00 am
The President, Hon. George M. Humphrey, and
General Howard McC. Snyder, departed the
Plantation and motored to the Jock Whitney
preserve to hunt quail. (The President shot 5 quail).
9:20 am
Arrived at the preserve, and started out on the quail hunt.
12:02 pm
The President and his party returned to the area where
the car was parked and motored to the Milestone
Plantation.
12:14 pm
Arrived at Milestone.
12:53 pm
Mr. Robert Woodruff arrived at the Plantation.
1:13 pm
LUNCH
2:55 pm
The President, Hon. George M. Humphrey, Mr. Robert
Woodruff, and General Snyder departed the main
house and motored to the mule wagon, arriving at
3:08 pm. (Mr. Woodruff left the party at this point).
3:14 pm
The President and his party began their hunt.
6:30 pm
The President and hunting party arrived back at the main house.
(The President got 4 quail).
8:00 pm
DINNER
President and Mrs. Eisenhower
Mrs. Elivira Doud
Hon. and Mrs. George M. Humphrey
Mr. and Mrs. Jock Whitney
Mr. William Robinson
General Howard McC. Snyder.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1956
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9:30 pm
The President played bridge with the following:
Hon. George M. Humphrey
Mr. Jock Whitney
Mr. William Robinson
12:25 am
Bridge game completed, the President retired to his cottage.
(Sunday)
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1956
THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA
MILESTONE PLANTATION
8:57 am
The President departed his cottage and walked to the
main house.
10:08 am
The President and Hon. George M. Humphrey departed the
main house and walked to the dog kennel. They looked
at the hunting dogs until 10:40 am, and then walked
back to the main house, arriving at 10:55 am.
11:48 am
The President entered his cottage for a nap.
1:22 pm
The President and Mrs. Eisenhower departed Milestone
Plantation and motored to Greenwood, the estate of
Mr. Jock Whitney.
1:46 pm
Arrived at the Jock Whitney estate.
Accompanying the President, in a second car, were:
General Howard McC. Snyder
Mrs. Elivira Doud
Hon. and Mrs. George Humphrey
7:56 pm
Departed Greenwood and motored to Milestone Plantation.
8:12 pm
Arrived at Milestone.
10:23 pm
The President retired for the evening.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1956
THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA
7:33 am
The President departed his cottage and walked to the main house.
8:41 am
The President, Hon. George M. Humphrey, General Snyder,
departed the main house and entered the wagons for go
hunting.
11:20 am
The hunt was concluded because of inclement weather.
The President shot 3 quail.
11:30 am
Returned to his cottage.
12:55 pm
The President walked from his cottage to the main house.
2:05 pm
Returned to his cottage.
2:27 pm
The President, Hon. George M. Humphrey, and General Snyder
motored to the rear gate of the plantation, arriving at
2:45 pm. They entered the wagons and began hunting.
6:07 pm
Hunt concluded. The President shot 4 quail.
6:15 pm
Arrived at the main house.
7:40 pm
DINNER
President and Mrs. Eisenhower
Mrs. Elivira Doud
Hon. and Mrs. George M. Humphrey
Mr. and Mrs. Jock Whitney
Mr. William Robinson
General Howard McC. Snyder
8:45 pm
The President played bridge with the following:
Hon. George M. Humphrey
Mr. William Robinson
Mr. Jock Whitney
11:55 pm
The President retired for the evening.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1956
THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA
7:47 am
The President departed his cottage and entered the main
house for breakfast.
9:06 am
The President, Hon. George M. Humphrey and General Snyder
departed the Plantation and motored to hunting area
located approximately 10 miles South of the Plantation.
9:27 am
Arrived at hunting area. After entering the mule drawn
wagon, the President and his party began the hunt.
12:49 pm
The President and his party departed the hunting area.
(The President shot 4 quail and 1 rabbit).
1:13 pm
Arrived at Milestone Plantation.
2:20 pm
The President and his party motored back to the hunting area.
6:35 pm
Hunt discontinued. The President shot 6 quail.
8:05 pm
DINNER
President and Mrs. Eisenhower
Mrs. Elivira Doud
Mrs. George M. Humphrey
(Secretary Humphrey flew to New York at 7:45 pm).
9:30 pm
The President retired for the evening.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1956
THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA
MILESTONE PLANTATION
9:17 am
The President, accompanied by Hon. James Hagerty
and General Howard McC. Snyder, departed the
Plantation and motored to the Glen Arven Country Club,
9:27 am
Arrived at the Glen Arven Country Club.
10:10 am
The President shook hands with the following:
Mr. Butts, who planted trees, etc., at the
Gettysburg Farm, and who lives in Tallahassee, Florida
Mr. Charles A. Dallas, Club Grounds Superintendent
10:13 am
The President teed off with the following:
Hon. James Hagerty
Mr. Jock Whitney
Mr. John H. Walter
12:50 pm
Completed eighteen holes of golf.
John Guyton was the
President's caddie.
1:00 pm
Before departing the Club, the President shook hands with
Congressman John L. Pilcher of Meigs, Georgia
1:01 pm
The President departed the Club and motored to Milestone
Plantation.
1:54 pm
Arrived at Milestone Plantation.
2:00 pm
LUNCH
2:53 pm
The President departed the main house and entered his cottage.
3:32 pm
The President departed his cottage and chipped golf balls on
the lawn until 4:10 pm.
7:11 pm
DINNER
President and Mrs. Eisenhower
Mrs. Elivira Doud
Mrs. George M. Humphrey
Mr. and Mrs. Jock Whitney
General Howard McC. Snyder
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1956
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9:00 pm
The President and Mr. Jock Whitney attended a movie
in the dining area, "Land of the Pharaohs".
11:20 pm
The President retired for the evening.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1956
THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA
MILESTONE PLANTATION
8:32 am
The President, accompanied by Hon. James Hagerty
and General Howard McC. Snyder, departed the
Plantation and motored to the Glen Arven
Country Club.
9:13 am
The President teed off with the following:
Hon. James Hagerty
Mr. Jock Whitney
Mr. John H. Walter
12:00 noon
Completed eighteen holes of golf.
12:02 pm
Enroute to his car, the President was presented with
flowers by
Mrs. Pauline Walter
Mrs. W. B. Cochran, Jr.
The President shook hands with Mr. Lonnie Ferguson,
President of the Commercial Bank of Thomasville, Georgia.
12:05 pm
Departed the Club and motored to Milestone Plantation.
12:18 pm
Arrived at Milestone Plantation.
2:25 pm
The President, Hon. George M. Humphrey, and General Snyder
departed Milestone Plantation and motored to the
Jock Whitney Preserve, which is approximately ten miles
from Milestone Plantation. Here they hunted for
turkeys. The President got one turkey.
4:03 pm
Departed the hunt area and motored back to Milestone.
4:25 pm
Arrived at Milestone Plantation
5:20 pm
The President went to the cooking area and prepared potato salad.
7:30 pm
DINNER
The President and Mrs. Eisenhower
Mrs. Elivira Doud
Hon. and Mrs. George Humphrey
General Howard McC. Snyder
Mr. and Mrs. Jock Whitney
Mr. Bill Robinson
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1956
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8:30 pm
The President played bridge with the following:
Hon. George M. Humphrey
Mr. Jock Whitney
Mr. William Robinson
11:45 pm
Bridge game completed.
12:30 pm
The President retired for the evening.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1956
THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA
MILESTONE PLANTATION
7:58 am
The President departed his cottage and walked to the
main house for breakfast.
8:45 am
The President, Secretary Humphrey and General Snyder
departed Milestone Plantation and went to the
hunting area. They were joined by Mr. Jock Whitney.
The President shot 3 quail.
12:19 pm
The President and his hunting party went to the picnic area
where they were joined by Mrs. Eisenhower, Mrs. Doud,
Mrs. Humphrey, Mrs. Jock Whitney, and Mr. William
Robinson. They had a picnic lunch - the President
and Secretary Humphrey cooking.
2:35 pm
The President and his party resumed the hunt. The
President shot 9 quail.
6:12 pm
The afternoon hunt over, the President and his party motored
to Milestone Plantation.
6:47 pm
Arrived at Milestone Plantation.
8:20 pm
The President and his party listened to the St. Thomas
Harmony Four, a choral group, in the dining area.
Reverend A. M. Threatt accompanied the group
composed of:
Edward H. Smith
O. C. Chappelle
C.E.Brown
C. W. Shorter
8:55 pm
DINNER
The President and Mrs. Eisenhower
Mrs. Elivira Doud
General Snyder
Mr. and Mrs. Jock Whitney
Mr. Bill Robinson
Hon. and Mrs. George Humphrey
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1956
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9:30 pm
The President played bridge with the following:
Hon. George M. Humphrey
Mr. Jock Whitney
Mr. William Robinson
1:15 am
The President retired to his cottage.
(Saturday)
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1956
THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA
MILESTONE PLANTATION
8:57 am
The President departed his cottage and walked to the
main house for breakfast.
9:20 am
The President, accompanied by Hon. George M. Humphrey,
motored to the home of Rufus Davis, keeper of the dogs.
He said goodbye to Mr. Davis and Mr. Albert Joyner.
9:58 am
The President and Mrs. Eisenhower departed Milestone
Plantation and motored to Spence Air Force Base,
Moultrie, Georgia.
Before leaving Thomasville, Georgia, the President
alighted from his car, greeted and shook hands with
the following Cub Scouts who were assembled at this
point:
Theodore "Teddy" Broadwell
James Broadwell
Art Gill
Joe Jones
Bill Kaliher
Bobby Stewart
Robert Sutton
Olin "Skippy" Fulmer
Philip Alan Dunford
Robert Daniel "Dan" Dunford
Seaborn Curry
(Also Betty Broadwell, sister of
Teddy and James. Betty is a Brownie Scout).
10:55 am
Arrived at Spence Air Force Base, Moultrie, Georgia.
(Before boarding the plane, the President shook hands
with Michael Miller, who was sitting in a wheel chair.
He also spoke to Jefferson Levy).
11:10 am
The Columbine departed Spence Air Force Base.
1:35 pm
Arrived at MATS Terminal.
1:47 pm
The President arrived at the White House and went into his office.
3:55 pm
The President departed his office and walked to the Mansion.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1956
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8:03 pm
The President and Mrs. Eisenhower departed the White House
and went to the home of Secretary and Mrs. John Foster
Dulles to attend the birthday party of Secretary Dulles.
8:17 pm
Arrived at the Dulles home. The following attended the
dinner party:
President and Mrs. Eisenhower
Hon. and Mrs. John Foster Dulles
Hon. and Mrs. George M. Humphrey
Hon. and Mrs. Herbert Brownell
Hon. and Mrs. Herbert Hoover, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry R. Luce
Mr. and Mrs. Allen W. Dulles
Mrs. Eleanor Lansing Dulles
Mr. Walter Williams
Mr. and Mrs. John Chambers Hughes
11:15 pm
The President and Mrs. Eisenhower departed the home
of Secretary Dulles and motored to the White House.
11:25 pm
Arrived at the White House.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1956
10:48 am
The President and Mrs. Eisenhower departed the
White House and motored to the National
Presbyterian Church.
10:53 am
Arrived at the Church. Remained for the 11:00 A. M.
Services.
12:07 pm
Departed the Church.
12:13 pm
Arrived at the White House.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1956
8:03 am
The President arrived at the office.
8:06 am
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
8:18 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
8:42 am
Hon. Gerald Morgan
8:47 am
Hon. James Hagerty
9:00 am
NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL (277th Meeting)
The President
The Vice President
Hon. John Foster Dulles
Hon. Reuben Robertson, Jr.
Hon. Arthur S. Flemming
Hon. George M. Humphrey
Hon. Herbert Brownell, Jr.
Hon. Rowland R. Hughes
Hon. Lewis L. Strauss
Hon. Ralph E. Spear, Assistant Federal Civil Defense
Administrator
Hon. Theodore Streibert
Hon. Percival Brundage
Hon. Wilber M. Brucker
Hon. Charles Sparks Thomas
Hon. Donald A. Quarles
Admiral Arthur W. Radford
General Maxwell D. Taylor
Admiral Arleigh Burke
General Nathan F. Twining
General Randolph McC. Pate
Hon. Allen W. Dulles
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
Hon. Dillon Anderson
Hon. James S. Lay, Jr.
Hon. S. Everett Gleason
Hon. Robert Bowie
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
12:06 pm
The President departed the office and went to the Mansion.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1956
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2:25 pm
H. E. Giovanni Gronchi, President of Italy
Signora Gronchi
Arrived at the North Portico of the White House and
were greeted by the President and Mrs. Eisenhower.
President and Signora Gronchi then proceeded to the
Blair House.
2:40 pm
Admiral Arthur W. Radford, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
General Maxwell D. Taylor, Chief of Staff, U. S. Army
Admiral Arleigh Burke, Chief of Naval Operations
General Nathan Twining, Chief of Staff, U. S. Air Force
General Randolph McC. Pate, Commandant, U. S. Marine Corps
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
(Admiral Radford departed at 3:20 pm. Others stayed
on until 3:40 pm).
3:45 pm
Lt. General John W. O'Daniel, U. S. A.
4:00 pm
Hon. John Foster Dulles
(until 5:11 pm)
5:12 pm
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1956
8:14 am
The President arrived at the office.
8:15 am
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
8:30 am
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
8:40 am
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
Hon. Bryce Harlow
Hon. I. Jack Martin
8:53 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
9:00 am
LEGISLATIVE LEADERS
The President
The Vice President
Senator William F. Knowland
Senator Styles Bridges
Senator Leverett Saltonstall
Congressman Joseph Martin
Congressman Charles Halleck
Congressman Leslie Arends
Congressman Leo Allen
Hon. Rowland Hughes
Hon. Ezra Taft Benson
Hon. Clarence Davis, Under Secretary of Interior
Hon. Allen Dulles
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
Hon. Fred Seaton
Hon. James Hagerty
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
Hon. Murray Snyder
Hon. I. Jack Martin
Hon. Bryce Harlow
Hon. Earle Chesney
Hon. Homer Gruenther
Hon. Kevin McCann
Hon. Gerald Morgan
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
10:05 am
Hon. Herbert Brownell, Jr.
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. James Hagerty
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1956
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10:30 am
H. E. Giovanni Gronchi, President of Italy
H. E. Gaetano Martino, Minister for Foreign Affairs of
the Italian Republic
H. E. Manlio Brosio, Ambassador of Italy
Hon. Mario Luciolli, Minister Plenipotentiary, Chief of
Office of International Relations
Mr. Alexandre deSeabra, State Department Interpreter
11:30 am
President Gronchi presented to President Eisenhower
a bronze reproduction of the "Discus Thrower" -
a gift from the Italian People to the American People.
The ceremony was held in the Rose Garden, and the
following were present:
H. E. Giovanni Gronchi and Signora Gronchi
H. E. Gaetano Martino and Signora Martino
H. E. Manlio Brosio and Signora Brosio
General Alberto Roda
The Honorable Mario Luciolli
The Honorable Egidio Ortano, Minister of Italy
and Signora Ortano
Signora Enrico Aillaud, Vice Chief of Cabinet,
Foreign Office
Dr. Mario Colesanti, Personal Physician to the
President of the Italian Republic
Signor Luigi Valdettaro, Second Secretary, Protocol,
Foreign Office
Signor Guglielmo Folchi, Vice Secretary, Foreign Office
Rear Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter, U. S. N.,
American Aide to the President of the Italian Republic
Hon. Herbert Hoover, Jr.
Ambassador Clare Booth Luce
Hon. C. Burke Elbrick, Acting Assistant Secretary of
State, European Affairs
12:00 Noon
Hon. Sherman Adams
12:09 pm
The President departed the office and went to the Mansion.
12:45 pm
H. E. Giovanni Gronchi and Signora Gronchi
(Arrived at the Mansion and spent a few minutes with
President and Mrs. Eisenhower prior to the Luncheon
at 1:00 pm
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1956
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1:00 pm
The President and Mrs. Eisenhower gave a Luncheon
in honor of President and Signora Gronchi. The following
attended:
H. E. The President of the Italian Re public and Signora Gronchi
H. E. The Italian Foreign Minister and Signora Martino
H. E. The Ambassador of Italy and Signora Brosio
General Giuseppe Mancinelli, Chief of Staff of Italian Defense
General Alberto Roda, Military Adviser to the President
Hon. Mario Luciolli, Minister, Chief of Office of
International Relations
Hon. Egidio Ortona and Signora Ortona, Minister of Embassy
Signor Enrico Aillaud, Vice Chief of Cabinet, Foreign Office
Vice President and Mrs. Nixon
The Secretary of State and Mrs. Dulles
The Secretary of the Treasury and Mrs. Humphrey
Hon. and Mrs. Rowland Hughes
Senator and Mrs. Walter F. George
Senator and Mrs. Alexander Wiley
Representative Joseph W. Martin, Jr.
Representative and Mrs. James P. Richards
Representative Robert B. Chiperfield
His Eminence Samuel Cardinal Stritch
Hon. Clare Boothe Luce
Hon. and Mrs. Dillon Anderson
Hon. and Mrs. William F. Russell
Mrs. Marion Nailor Bailey
Miss Rosamond Berry
Mrs. Margaret Biddle
(Luncheon was over at 2:40 pm)
2:45 pm
The President returned to the office.
2:45 pm
(Hon. Richard T. Nixon)
OFF THE RECORD
3:00 pm
Hon. Howard Pyle
3:15 pm
(Hon. George M. Humphrey)
(Hon. Sinclair Weeks)
(Hon. Wilton B. Persons)
(Hon. I. Jack Martin)
(OFF THE RECORD - Re Highway Bill)
3:40 pm
Hon. George M. Humphrey
Hon. James Hagerty
4:10 pm
Hon. James Hagerty
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1956
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4:12 pm
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. James Hagerty
4:15 pm
Hon. James Hagerty
4:35 pm
The President departed the office and went to the swimming pool.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1956
8:08 am
The President arrived at the office.
8:11 am
Hon. James Hagerty
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
8:32 am
Hon. Gabriel Hauge
8:58 am
Hon. James Hagerty
9:50 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
Hon. James Hagerty
Hon. Gerald Morgan
Hon. Fred Seaton
Hon. Howard Pyle
Hon. Murray Snyder
10:30 am
PRESS CONFERENCE
(The President made the announcement he would
be a candidate for nomination for a second term).
10:55 am
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. James Hagerty
11:00 am
Hon. James Hagerty
12:08 pm
The President departed the office and went to the Mansion.
2:00 pm
The President arrived in the Cabinet Room to prepare his
speech for delivery on Television this evening.
(Mr. Robert Montgomery was working on this and
lining up the Television and Radio people in the
President's office.
5:45 pm
The President went to the Mansion.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 1956
8:03 am
The President arrived at the office.
8:12 am
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
8:20 am
(Hon. Herbert Brownell, Jr.)
(Hon. Sherman Adams)
(Hon. Leonard Hall)
(Hon. Thomas E. Stephens)
OFF THE RECORD
(Hon. Wilton B. Persons)
(Hon. James Hagerty)
8:45 am
Dr. Milton Eisenhower
9:00 am
Hon. John Foster Dulles
Dr. Milton Eisenhower
Hon. Clare Booth Luce
(Dr. Milton Eisenhower met the 9:05 am group, then
departed).
9:05 am
H. E. Giovanni Gronchi
Hon. John Foster Dulles
Hon. Clare Booth Luce
Hon. C. Burke Elbrick, Acting Assistant Secretary
of State, European Affairs
H. E. Gaetano Martino, Minister for Foreign Affairs
of the Italian Republic
H. E. Manlio Brosio, Ambassador of Italy
Hon. Mario Luciolli, Minister Plenipotentiary,
Chief of Office of International Relations
Mr. Alexandre deSeabra, State Department Interpreter
10:25 am
The following attended the ceremony when Hon. William
H. Jackson was sworn in as Special Assistant to the
President: (Ceremony in Conference Room):
Mrs. William H. Jackson
Mrs. Howell E. Jackson
Mr. Horace H. Lurton
Mr. Arthur Mag
White House Staff
10:27 am
Hon. Gerald Morgan
THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 1956
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10:30 am
Hon. Dillon Anderson
Hon. James S. Lay
11:10 am
Hon. Dillon Anderson
11:25 am
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
11:35 am
The President departed the office and went to the
swimming pool.
1:00 pm
LUNCH
1:35 pm
The President returned to the office.
1:37 pm
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
2:00 pm
(Hon. John Foster Dulles)
OFF THE RECORD
(Hon. Reuben Robertson)
(Hon. Dillon Anderson)
(Admiral Arthur W. Radford)
(General Maxwell D. Taylor)
(Admiral Arleigh Burke)
(General Nathan Twining)
(General Randolph McC. Pate)
(Ambassador Amos Peaslee)
(Hon. Harold Stassen)
(Re Bulganin letter)
2:45 pm
The following attended the ceremony in the Conference Room
when Hon. Edward P. Curtis was sworn in as
Special Assistant to the President:
Mrs. Edward P. Curtis
Mr. and Mrs. Edward P. Curtis, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. C. Fenno Hoffman, Jr.
Dr. Ralph W. E. Reid, Assistant Director, Budget Bureau
Hon. Sinclair Weeks
Hon. Reuben Robertson
Hon. Marion Folsom
Mr. N. E. Halaby, Aviation Facilities Study Group
Mr. J. Gordon Bennett, Executive Assistant to
Mr. Curtis
White House Staff
(Mr. Curtis is Special Assistant to the President
for Aviation Facilities Planning).
THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 1956
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2:50 pm
NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL (278th Meeting)
The President
Hon. John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State
Hon. Reuben Robertson, Jr., Acting Secretary of Defense
Hon. Arthur S. Flemming, Director, ODM
Hon. George M. Humphrey, Secretary of the Treasury
Hon. Herbert Brownell, Jr., the Attorney General
Hon. Harold E. Stassen, Special Assistant to the President
Hon. Percival F. Brundage, Acting Director,
Bureau of the Budget
Hon. Lewis L. Strauss, Chairman, Atomic Energy
Commission
Hon. Ralph Spear, for the Federal Civil Defense
Administrator
Hon. Joseph Dodge, Chairman, Council on Foreign
Economic Policy
Hon. Theodore Streibert, Director, U. S. I. A.
Hon. Ralph W. E. Reid, Assistant Director, Bureau
of the Budget
Hon. Wilbur M. Brucker, Secretary of the Army
Hon. Charles Sparks Thomas, Secretary of the Navy
Hon. Donald A. Quarles, Secretary of the Air Force
Admiral Arthur W. Radford, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
General Maxwell D. Taylor, Chief of Staff, U. S. Army
Admiral Arleigh Burke, Chief of Naval Operations
General Randolph McC. Pate, Commandant, U. S. M. C.
Hon. Allen W. Dulles, Director, C. I. A.
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
Hon. Dillon Anderson
Hon. Herbert Hoover, Jr.
Hon. William Jackson
Hon. James S. Lay, Jr.
Hon. S. Everett Gleason
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
4:30 pm
Hon. Harold E. Stassen
4:45 pm
The President departed the office and went to the Mansion.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 1956
8:18 am
The President arrived at the office.
8:20 am
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
8:34 am
(Hon. Herbert Brownell)
OFF THE RECORD
(Hon. Sherman Adams)
8:50 am
Hon. John Foster Dulles
9:00 am
CABINET MEETING
The President
The Vice President
Hon. John Foster Dulles
Hon. George M. Humphrey
Hon. Reuben B. Robertson, Jr. , Deputy Director,
Department of Defense
Hon. Herbert Brownell
Hon. Maurice H. Stans, Deputy Postmaster General
Hon. Douglas McKay
Hon. Ezra Taft Benson
Hon. Sinclair Weeks
Hon. James P. Mitchell
Hon. Marion B. Folsom
Hon. Percival Brundage, Deputy Director, Bureau of
the Budget
Hon. Arthur Flemming, Director, ODM
Hon. Philip Young, Chairman, Civil Service Commission
Hon. Allen Dulles
Hon. Lewis L. Strauss
Hon. Walter Williams, Under Secretary of Commerce
Mr. Erwin Seago, Director, Office of Strategic Information,
Department of Commerce
Dr. Alan T. Waterman, Director, National Science Foundation
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
Hon. William Jackson
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
Hon. Gabriel Hauge
Hon. Bryce Harlow
Hon. Dillon Anderson
Hon. Harold E. Stassen
Hon. I. Jack Martin
Hon. Gerald Morgan
Hon. Kevin McCann
FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 1956
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9:00 am
CABINET MEETING (Continued):
Hon. Murray Snyder
Hon. Howard Pyle
Hon. Maxwell Rabb
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
Hon. Arthur Minnich
Hon. Bradley Patterson
10:55 am
Hon. Murray Snyder
11:15 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
11:40 am
Hon. Herbert Brownell
12:40 pm
Hon. Allen Dulles
12:47 pm
Hon. Allen Dulles
Admiral Arthur Radford
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
1:32 pm
The President departed the office.
2:35 pm
The President returned to the office.
2:37 pm
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
3:05 pm
Hon. Gerald Morgan
3:25 pm
Hon. Sherman Adams
3:35 pm
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
4:30 pm
The President departed the office and went to the swimming pool.
4:45 pm
The President practiced golf on the Lawn of the White House.
5:30 pm
The President returned to his office.
5:35 pm
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
6:00 pm
The President departed the office.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 1956
8:50 am
The President arrived at the office.
9:00 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
9:10 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
9:50 am
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
10:00 am
General Bedell Smith
11:02 am
The President departed the office and went to the swimming
pool to have a swim with his grandchildren.
11:55 am
Mrs. Eisenhower and Mrs. Doud joined the President
at the swimming pool.
12:05 pm
The President and First Family went to the Mansion for
lunch.
1:10 pm
The President departed the White House and motored to
the Burning Tree Country Club. Enroute, the
presidential limousine stopped to pick up
Dr. Howard McC. Snyder.
1:40 pm
Arrived at Burning Tree Country Club. The President
practiced until 1:57 pm.
1:57 pm
The President played 16 holes of golf with Thomas
Belshe. He played the first nine holes twice
with the exception of holes 4 and 5 the second
time around.
4:10 pm
Golf game completed.
4:25 pm
Departed Burning Tree Country Club.
5:07 pm
Arrived at the White House and went to the office.
6:00 pm
Departed the office and went to the Mansion.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
SUNDAY, MARCH 4, 1956
8:48 am
The President departed the White House and motored
to the National Presbyterian Church toattend the
9:00 am Services.
9:55 pm
Services completed, the President departed the Church
and motored to the White House.
10:00 am
Arrived at the White House.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
MONDAY, MARCH 5, 1956
8:05 am
The President arrived at the office.
8:20 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
8:42 am
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
8:45 am
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
9:00 am
Hon. Meyer Kestnbaum
Hon. Sherman Adams
9:45 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Daniel Webster Turner, former Governor of Iowa
Mr. Clifford E. Houck, Corning, Iowa
(Heads National Farmers' Organization)
Congressman Karl M. LeCompte of Iowa
9:50 am
(Hon. Herbert Hoover)
(Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster) OFF THE RECORD
10:35 am
General John Reed Kilpatrick
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
Hon. Murray Snyder
10:45 am
Hon. Raymond J. Saulnier
Member of Council of Economic Advisers
Hon. Gabriel Hauge
11:15 am
Hon. Lewis L. Strauss
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
11:55 am
The President departed the office and went to the swimming pool.
12:25 pm
Departed the pool and went to the Ma nsion.
1:00 pm
LUNCH
1:45 pm
The President returned to the office. He stayed in the outer
office with Mrs. Whitman. Photographic equipment was
being set up in his office.
2:30 pm
(The President had portrait pictures made in his office)
OFF THE RECORD
3:00 pm
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
3:2 5 pm
The President departed the office.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 1956
8:15 am
The President arrived at the office.
8:22 am
Mr. John McCone
Chairman of the Board, Pacific Far East Line, Inc.
8:55 am
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
Hon. I. Jack Martin
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
8:58 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
9:00 am
LEGISLATIVE LEADERS
The President
Senator William F. Knowland
Senator Styles Bridges
Senator Leverett Saltonstall
Congressman Joseph Martin
Congressman Charles Halleck
Congressman Leslie Arends
Congressman Leo Allen
Hon. Rowland Hughes
Hon. Philip Young
Mr. Warren B. Irons, Civil Service Commission
Hon. Herbert Hoover, Jr.
Mr. Roderic O'Connor, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State
Hon. Philip Ray, General Counsel, Department of Commerce
Mr. Leonard J. Saccio, ICA
Mr. Thorsten V. Kalijarvi, Deputy Assistant Secretary
of State
Mr. Mansfield T. Sprague, General Counsel, Department
of Defense
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
Hon. Gerald Morgan
Hon. Fred Seaton
Hon. Howard Pyle
Hon. I. Jack Martin
Hon. Harold Stassen
Hon. Homer Gruenther
Hon. Earle D. Chesney
Hon. Bryce Harlow
Hon. Murray Snyder
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
Mr. Edward McCabe
TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 1956
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10:26 am
The President departed the White House and motored
to the Statler Hotel to greet and address the
Republican Women's National Conference.
He
was accompanied by Hon. Leonard Hall and
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley.
10:43 am
The President returned to his office in the White House.
10:47 am
Hon. Herbert Hoover, Jr.
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
10:55 am
The following group attended the ceremony for the
Signing of the Armed Forces Day Proclamation
which was held in the Cabinet Room:
Hon. Charles E. Wilson, Secretary of Defense
Hon. Wilber M. Brucker, Secretary of the Army
Hon. Charles S. Thomas, Secretary of the Navy
Hon. Donald A. Quarles, Secretary of the Air Force
Hon. Carter Burgess, Assistant Secretary of Defense
Hon. Robert Tripp Ross, Assistant Secretary of Defense
Lt. General W. L. Weible, Deputy Chief of Staff
for Personnel, Department of the Army
Admiral D. B. Duncan, Vice Chief of Naval Operations
General Thomas D. White, Vice Chief of Staff,
Air Force
Admiral Thomas C. Kincaid
11:00 am
Hon. Charles E. Wilson
Hon. Herbert Hoover, Jr.
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
(Secretary Hoover departed at 11:25 am. Others
remained until 12:15 pm).
12:15 pm
Hon. Charles E. Wilson
(Saw the President alone)
12:30 pm
Hon. Murray Snyder
12:36 pm
The President departed the office and went to the swimming pool.
12:45 pm
Departed the swimming pool and went to the Mansion.
1:00 pm
LUNCH
2:12 pm
The President arrived in his office.
TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 1956
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2:29 pm
Hon. Sherman Adams
2:32 pm
Hon. Gerald Morgan
2:37 pm
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
3:30 pm
The President went out on the South Lawn and
hit golf balls.
4:55 pm
Returned to the office.
5:15 pm
The President departed the office and went to the Mansion.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 1956
7:52 am
The President arrived at the office.
8:04 am
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
8:14 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
8:15 am
Hon. Arthur B. Langlie
Governor of the State of Washington
Hon. Sherman Adams
8:27 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
(until 8:32 am)
9:30 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
9:35 am
Hon. Herbert Brownell, Jr.
Hon. Sherman Adams
9:45 am
Hon. Herbert Brownell, Jr. (alone)
10:00 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
Hon. Gerald Morgan
Hon. Fred Seaton
Hon. I. Jack Martin
Hon. Howard Pyle
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
(Pre-Press Conference Briefing)
10:30 am
PRESS CONFERENCE
11:06 am
The President returned to his office after Press Conference.
11:07 am
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
11:12 am
Hon. Dillon Anderson
Hon. James M. Lay, Jr.
11:40 am
(Lady Astor)
(Lord Astor son of Lady Astor)
OFF THE RECORD
11:50 am
Hon. Gerald Morgan
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 1956
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11:52 am
The President greeted the following 4-H Club
Winners in connection with the observance of
National 4-H Club Week, March 3-11:
Franklin McKay, Route 1, Clayton, New Mexico
National Achievement Winner
Angela Heine, Ellendale, North Dakota
National Achievement Winner
William C. Thiesenhusen, Muskego, Wisconsin
National Citizenship Winner
Nellie McClure, Cleveland, Tennessee
National Citizenship Winner
Eldon Rebhorn, Oswego, Illinois
National Leadership Winner
Ann Guindon, Plankinton, South Dakota
National Leadership Winner
The following also were present:
Mr. Guy L. Noble, Director, National Committee on
Boys and Girls Club Work, Chicago, Illinois
Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Quain, General Manager,
Conrad Hilton Hotel, Chicago, Illinois
Mr. Ollie F. Gaebe, Specialist in 4-H Club Work,
Illinois
Miss Marie M. Curry, State 4-H Club Agent, South Dakota
Ervin L. Peterson, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture
P. V. Kepner, Deputy Administrator, Federal
Extension Service, Department of Agriculture
E. W. Aiton, Director, 4-H Club and YMW Programs,
Federal Extension Service, Department of
Agriculture
C. C. Lang, Associate Leader, 4-H Club and YMW
Programs, Federal Extension Service,
Department of Agriculture
Edwin Hunton, Photographer
12:03 pm
The President departed the office and went to the Mansion.
1:00 pm
LUNCH
1:19 pm
The President, accompanied by Major Walter Tkach,
departed the White House and motored to Burning Tree
Country Club.
1:45 pm
Arrived at Burning Tree.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 1956
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2:02 pm
The President teed off from the 6th hole with
Colonel Thomas E. Belshe. They played
only six holes due to rain.
2:48 pm
Returned to the Club House.
3:50 pm
The President, accompanied by Major Tkach,
departed Burning Tree Country Club and
motored to the White House.
4:15 pm
The President returned to his office.
4:25 pm
Hon. Sherman Adams
5:45 pm
The President departed his office and went to the Mansion.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1956
8:02 am
The President arrived at the office.
8:07 am
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
8:10 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
8:16 am
Hon. Gerald Morgan
8:35 am
Hon. Lewis L. Strauss
8:52 am
Hon. Harold Stassen
9:00 am
NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL (279 th Meeting)
The President
The Vice President
Hon. Herbert Hoover, Jr.
Hon. Wilber M. Brucker, Acting Secretary of Defense
Hon. Arthur Flemming, Director, ODM
Hon. George M. Humphrey, Secretary of the Treasury
Hon. Herbert Brownell, Jr., the Attorney General
Hon. Harold E. Stassen, Special Assistant to the President
Hon. Rowland R. Hughes, Director, Bureau of the Budget
Hon. Percival Brundage, Deputy Director, Bureau of the Budget
Hon. Lewis L. Strauss, Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission
Hon. J. Edgar Hoover, Director, Federal Bureau of
Investigation
Hon. Theodore Streibert, Director, U. S. I. A.
Hon. J. Walter Yeagley, Chairman, Interdepartmental
Committee on Internal Security
General Thomas D. White, for the Chairman, Joint Chiefs
of Staff
Hon. Allen Dulles, Director of Central Intelligence
Hon. Sherman Adams (for part of meeting)
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
Hon. Gerald Morgan
Hon. Dillon Anderson
Hon. William H. Jackson, Special Assistant to the President
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
Hon. J. Patrick Coyne
Hon. James S. Lay
Hon. S. Everett Gleason
THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1956
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11:15 am
Hon. George M. Humphrey
11:20 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
11:22 am
Hon. Douglas McKay
11:32 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
11:45 am
The President departed the office and went to the Mansion.
1:00 pm
LUNCH
2:30 pm
The President returned to the office.
2:32 pm
Hon. Dan Thornton
(Former Governor of Colorado)
3:30 pm
Hon. Gerald Morgan
3:35 pm
Hon. Herbert Hoover, Jr.
4:52 pm
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
5:18 pm
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
5:45 pm
OFF THE RECORD Meeting in the President's office.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 1956
8:13 am
The President arrived at the office.
8:15 am
Mr. William J. Hopkins
8:18 am
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
8:24 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
8:29 am
Hon. Murray Snyder
8:45 am
Hon. Ezra Taft Benson
9:00 am
CABINET MEETING
The President
Hon. Herbert Hoover, Jr., Under Secretary of State
Hon. George M. Humphrey, Secretary of the Treasury
Hon. Herbert Brownell, the Attorney General
Hon. Maurice Stans, Deputy Postmaster General
Hon. Clarence A. Davis, Under Secretary of the Interior
Hon. Ezra Taft Benson, Secretary of Agriculture
Hon. Walter Williams, Under Secretary of Commerce
Hon. James P. Mitchell, Secretary of Labor
Hon. Marion B. Folsom, Secretary of Health, Education
and Welfare
Hon. Percival Brundage, Deputy Director, Bureau of the
Budget
Dr. Arthur Flemming, Director, ODM
Hon. Philip Young, Chairman, Civil Service Commission
Dr. Arthur Burns, Council of Economic Advisers
Hon. J. Edgar Hoover, Director, Federal Bureau of
Investigation
Mr. Warren B. Irons, Civil Service Commission
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
Hon. Harold Stassen
Hon. Dillon Anderson
Hon, Bernard M. Shanley
Hon. Gerald Morgan
Hon. Fred Seaton
Hon. Maxwell Rabb
Hon. Murray Snyder
Hon. I. Jack Martin
Hon. Gabriel Hauge
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
Hon. Bradley Patterson
Hon. Wilber M. Brucker, Secretary of the Army
FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 1956
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10:50 am
Hon. Herbert Hoover, Jr.
11:00 am
(Major General Edwin N. Clark, USA, Retired) OFF THE RECORD
11:35 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
11:39 am
Hon. Marion B. Folsom
Mr. Devereaux Josephs
11:55 am
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
12:00 Noon
The President departed the office and went to the swimming
pool.
1:00 pm
LUNCH
2:30 pm
The President returned to the office.
2:32 pm
Hon. James P. Mitchell
3:16 pm
Hon. Dillon Anderson
3:54 pm
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
4:00 pm
Hon. Sherman Adams
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
4:30 pm
The President went out on the South Lawn and
hit golf balls.
5:10 pm
The President returned to the office.
5:15 pm
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
5:40 pm
The President departed the office and went to the Mansion.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 1956
8:05 am
The President arrived at the office.
8:25 am
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
8:45 am
Colonel James Stack
9:00 am
Mr. Karl Betts
9:30 am
The President departed the office and went to the Mansion.
9:32 am
Departed the White House and motored to Burning Tree
Country Club. The President was accompanied by
General Howard McC. Snyder.
9:56 am
Arrived at Burning Tree.
10:32 am
The President teed off with Mr. John McClure from the
10th tee. They played 18 holes of golf, playing
holes 10 to 18 twice.
1:15 pm
The President departed Burning Tree and motored to the
White House.
1:45 pm
Arrived at the White House.
4:40 pm
The President returned to the office.
5:35 pm
Departed the office and went to the Mansion.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
SUNDAY, MARCH 11, 1956
10:47 am
The President and Mrs. Eisenhower departed the White House
and motored to the National Presbyterian Church.
10:50 am
Arrived at the Church and attended the 11:00 A. M. Services.
12:06 pm
Departed the Church and motored to the White House.
12:10 pm
Arrived at the White House.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
MONDAY, MARCH 12, 1956
8:23 am
The President arrived at the office.
8:28 am
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
9:10 am
Commander Edward L. Beach
9:35 am
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
10:00 am
Hon. Arthur Burns
Hon. Gabriel Hauge
10:40 am
Hon. Herbert Hoover, Jr.
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
11:15 am
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
Hon. Murray Snyder
11:18 am
(The President received the winners of the White House
News Photographers Association Contest) OFF THE RECORD
(Alphonse Muto, International News Photos, Spot News)
(Robert Schultz, Associated Press, Sports)
(Richard Darcy, Washington Post-Times Herald, Features)
(James McNamara, Washington Post-Times Herald, Pictorial)
(Jack Lartz, International News Photos, Personalaties)
(Stanley Tretick, United Press, Presidential - Grand Prize
Winner)
(Joseph Roberts, National Geographic, was the winner
of color photography, but was in Europe on this date).
(Hon. Murray Snyder accompanied the above group).
11:40 am
The President departed the office and went to the swimming pool.
12:25 pm
Departed the swimming pool and went to the Mansion.
1:00 pm
(LUNCH)
2:00 pm
The President returned to the office.
2:10 pm
Brig. General John H. Michaelis, Commanding General
Southern European Task Force
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
2:30 pm
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
2:40 pm
(Mr. Harry Butcher)
OFF THE RECORD
MONDAY, MARCH 12, 1956
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3:02 pm
Hon. Leonard Hall
3:50 pm
General Lauris Norstad
U. S. Air Forces in Europe
4:18 pm
Hon. Leonard Hall
Hon. Howard Pyle
Hon. Murray Snyder
4:30 pm
Brig. General Alfred D. Starbird
Director of Military Application, Atomic Energy Commission
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
4:36 pm
(Hon. Herbert Hoover, Jr.)
(Hon. Robert Anderson)
OFF THE RECORD
6:23 pm
The President departed the office and went to the Mansion.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 1956
8:03 am
The President arrived at the office.
8:06 am
Mr. William J. Hopkins
8:08 am
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
8:30 am
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
Hon. Gerald Morgan
Hon. Bryce Harlow
Hon. I. Jack Martin
9:00 am
LEGISLATIVE LEADERS
The Vice President
Senator William F. Knowland
Senator Leverett Saltonstall
Senator George D. Aiken
Senator Edward Martin
Congressman Joseph W. Martin, Jr.
Congressman Charles E. Halleck
Congressman Leslie Arends
Congressman Leo Allen
Congressman Daniel Reed
Hon. Rowland Hughes
Hon. Marion B. Folsom
Hon. Roswell B. Perkins
Mr. Charles I. Schottland, Commissioner,
Social Security Administration
Hon. Philip Young
Hon. Abbott Washburn, U. S. I. A.
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
Hon. Gerald Morgan
Hon. Bryce Harlow
Hon. I. Jack Martin
Hon. Homer Gruenther
Hon. Fred Seaton
Hon. Earle Chesney
Hon. Murray Snyder
Hon. Howard Pyle
Hon. Gabriel Hauge
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
10:27 am
Hon. Richard T. Nixon
TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 1956
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11:32 am
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
11:42 am
The President departed the office and went to the
swimming pool.
12:30 pm
The President went to the Mansion.
1:00 pm
(LUNCH)
1:50 pm
The President returned to the office.
2:24 pm
Hon. Charles E. Wilson
Admiral Arthur Radford
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
4:19 pm
Hon. Gerald Morgan
4:25 pm
Hon. Fred Seaton
4:46 pm
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster (until 4:52 pm)
5:22 pm
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster (until 5:30 pm)
5:30 pm
The President departed the office and went to the Mansion.
8:41 pm
The President and Mrs. Eisenhower, accompanied by
Mrs. Elvira Doud
Major and Mrs. John Eisenhower
Mr. Charles Tompkins
departed the White House and motored to the
Playhouse Theater to attend the Washington
premiere of the film "Richard III".
(This film was sponsored by Ambassador and Lady
Makins for the benefit of the Washington Heart
Associations, 1956 Heart Fund).
8:43 pm
Arrived at the Playhouse Theater. The President and his
party were greeted by Mr. Gerald Wagner, Manager of
the Theater. Still and newsreel photographs were
taken of the following:
The President and Mrs. Eisenhower
Ambassador and Lady Makins
Mrs. Elvira Doud
Sir Laurence Olivier
Mr. and Mrs. Griffith Johnson
Mr. and Mrs. I. E. Lopert
TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 1956
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11:36 pm
The President and Mrs. Eisenhower departed the
Playhouse Theater and motored to the White House.
11:38 pm
Arrived at the White House.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 1956
8:30 am
The President arrived at the office.
8:37 am
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
9:08 am
Hon. William Jackson
10:00 am
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
Hon. Gerald Morgan
Hon. Howard Pyle
Hon. Fred Seaton
Hon. Murray Snyder
Hon. I. Jack Martin
Hon. Bryce Harlow
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
(Pre-Press Conference Briefing)
10:30 am
PRESS CONFERENCE
11:07 am
The President returned to the office.
11:09 am
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
11:12 am
Hon. Kevin McCann
11:25 am
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
11:30 am
Hon. Nelson Rockefeller
11:45 am
The President departed the office and went to the Mansion.
12:55 pm
The President greeted Prime Minister John A. Costello
of Ireland at the North Portico of the White House.
1:00 pm
The following attended the Luncheon given in honor
of H. E. John A. Costello, Prime Minister of Ireland:
The President
H. E. The Ambassador of Ireland, John Joseph Hearne
Mr. Joseph D. Brennan, Couselor of Embassy
The Hon. Charles H. Murray, Principal Officerin
the Prime Minister's Department
Mr. Alexis Fitzgerald, Special Assistant to the
Prime Minister
(Guest list continued on next page)
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 1956
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1:00 pm
Luncheon in honor of H. E. Prime Minister of Ireland
(Continued):
Hon. George M. Humphrey, Secretary of the Treasury
Hon. Sinclair Weeks, Secretary of Commerce
Hon. James P. Mitchell, Secretary of Labor
Senator Theodore Francis Green
Senator H. Alexander Smith
Hon. Herbert Hoover, Jr., Acting Secretary of State
Representative John W. McCormack
Representative Charles A. Halleck
Hon. Wilber M. Brucker
Hon. Donald A. Quarles
Hon. Maurice H. Stans
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
Hon. Livingston T. Merchant
Hon. David W. Kendall
Ambassador William Howard Taft, III
Hon. Jerome K. Kuykendall
Hon. Kevin McCann
2:35 pm
The President returned to the office.
3:05 pm
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
3:15 pm
(Aksel Nielsen)
OFF THE RECORD
3:45 pm
Hon. Leonard Hall
4:25 pm
Hon. Gerald Morgan
Hon. Murray Snyder
4:55 pm
The President departed the office and went to the
South Lawn to hit golf balls.
5:50 pm
The President returned to the office.
5:55 pm
The President departed the office and went to the Mansion.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 1956
8:15 am
The President arrived at the office, accompanied by
Mr. Aksel Nielsen.
8:29 am
Mr. William J. Hopkins
8:33 am
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
8:50 am
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
8:55 am
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
9:05 am
Hon. Dillon Anderson
9:10 am
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
Hon. Gerald Morgan
Hon. I. Jack Martin
(Joined Mr. Dillon Anderson in the President's office).
9:30 am
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
Colonel William Draper
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
9:50 am
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
10:00 am
(Mr. John Cowles, President, Minneapolis Star and Tribune)
OFF THE RECORD
10:20 am
Hon. Robert T. B. Stevens
10:38 am
(Hon. Christian Herter, Jr.)
OFF THE RECORD
11:04 am
The President received the 1956 Easter Seal Child,
and bought the first sheet of Easter Seals.
The following were present:
Miss Clara Jo Proudfoot, 1956 Easter Seal Child
Hon. Joe J. Foss, Governor of South Dakota
Chairman of the 1956 Easter Seal Campai gn
Mr. Paul Wickman
Director of Development, The National Society
for Crippled Children and Adults
Mr. Theodore Wegener
Volunteer President of the National Society for
Crippled Children and Adults
(Continued)
THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 1956
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11:04 am
The President received the Easter Seal Child of 1956
(List continued from previous page):
Mr. Noel Tweet
Director of Industrial Development, The National
Society for Crippled Children and Adults
Miss Kay Bauer
National Society for Crippled Children and Adults
Mrs. Carl Proudfoot
Mother of Easter Seal Child (from Miami, Florida)
11:12 am
Hon. Carter Burgess
Hon. Murray Snyder
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
11:20 am
Hon. Joe J. Foss
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
11:55 am
Colonel Robert L. Schulz
12:00 pm
The President departed the office and went to the swimming pool.
12:50 pm
Departed the swimming pool and went to the Mansion.
1:00 pm
(LUNCH)
1:50 pm
The President returned to the office.
1:55 pm
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
2:07 pm
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
2:20 pm
(Mr. Robert Biggers, Chrysler Corporation)
(Mr. L. L. ("Tex") Colbert)
(Mr. Thomas Morrow)
OFF THE RECORD
2:35 pm
Admiral Arthur W. Radford, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
General Maxwell D. Taylor, Chief of Staff, U. S. Army
Admiral Arleigh Burke, Chief of Naval Operations
General Nathan Twining, Chief of Staff, U. S. Air Force
General Randolph McC. Pate, Commandant, U. S. M. C.
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
3:45 pm
Hon. Maxwell Rabb
3:50 pm
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 1956
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4:25 pm
Mr. Harvey Firestone
Mr. Emil Schram
Mr. John L. Sullivan
(Came to the White House with the USO group, and
saw the President prior to his receiving the USO group).
4:35 pm
The President greeted the following membersof the
National Council of the United Service Organizations
in the Rose Garden:
Lt. Halbert A. Abshier, Jr.
Henry F. Chadeayne
Maj. Gen. George R. Achson
Clarence R. Chaney
Irene Adler
Roy Charles
Henry Alberg
John S. Charlton
Mrs. A. F. Anderson
Allen L. Chickering, Jr.
Major Jean Anderson
Mrs. Francis T. Christy
Mrs. William Anderson
Miles N. Clair
Gen. John A. Appleton
Dr. Rufus E. Clement
David Atwood
Louis Cohen
Mrs. Am. G. Austin
Mabel R. Cook
Richard H. Balch
Eleanor M. Cooper
O. H. P. Baldwin
Forrest Cotton
Mrs. Henry Baldwin
Robert H. Craig
Miss Lilace R. Barnes
Tom W. Crockett
A. Warren Bate
Louis W. Cross
Claude E. Bates
Mrs. J. W. Cunningham
Mrs. Robert Beare, Jr.
Capt. E. O. Davis
Timothy F. Beckett
Robert Dechert
Ridley Bell
Hester Deller
J. Gordon Bennett
David F. DeMarche
C. Oscar Berry
Hardy Denham
Frank Beuscher
Jasper N. Dorsey
Charles J. Birt
William J. Dray
Dorothy Boardman
James G. Dunton
Edwin E. Bond
Ruth Eaton
Richard E. Bond
Stanley B. Ecker
Robert E. Bondy
Ernest H. Edinger
Vilas J. Boyle
Herbert E. Evans
William Boyle
Buford P. Faubion
Thomas Braden
Dr. Dorothy B. Ferebee
Ernest C. Bratton
Dorothy M. Finley
Lt. Col. Charles M. Buck
Frank Finnerty
Hon. Carter L. Burgess
Harvey S. Firestone, Jr.
Norma Carpenter
A. M. Fleishman
Burton J. Cassady
Ferdinand T. Fletcher
Leo M. Flynn
Frank M. Folsom
THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 1956
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4:35 pm
National Council of the United Service Organizations, continued:
Ralph Fontaine
Millard Hopper
E. J. Forio
A. E. Huguenin
Bernard Frazier
Mrs. Roscoe Hunt
Milton Fredman
Laurin Hyde
Mary Fry
Col. Louis W. Jackson
S. Dale Furst, Jr.
Morris Jacobs
Harry M. Gambrel
Henry S. Jacobus
Edna M. Geissler
Douglas Jardine
Samuel D. Gershovitz
Mrs. W. Mexey Jarman
Leonard E. Gibbons
Elliot J. Jensen
Charles P. Gilbert
Doug Johnson
John Gill
Holgar J. Johnson
George D. Gordon
Kenneth D. Johnson
Philip Larner Gore
Laurence Johnson
William B. Gorman
Lloyd Johnson
Mrs. George H. Gorton
A. A. Jones
Edward F. Graham
Bascom Jones
B. C. Grangaard
Morris O. Kahn
E. Tyree Greene
M. Shakman Katz
Joseph Greenhut
Joseph D. Kaufman
John C. Greiner
Michael T. Kelleher
George W. Grider
Sterling King
Robert Gyrax
Mrs. Valley Knudsen
George Haithcock
Mrs. Swift Kochs
Clark H. Hall
Elmer R. Krueger
Admiral J. L. Hall, Jr.
Mrs. Jessie V. Krueger
Harry Haller, Jr.
Thomas B. Lackey
Mrs. Granger Hansell
Mrs. Gilbert G. LaGorce
Herbert R. Hanson
Abe Lastfogel
Read Adm. E. B. Harp, Jr.
Raymond Laub
Everette B. Harris
Mrs. Philip O. Lautz
Dr. Maurice Hartmann
A. Lincoln Lavine
Capt. L. J. Heinz
General Ben Lear
Rev. H. E. Handerson
Mrs. Frederick S. Lee
Dr. Milvin G. Henningsen
Robert E. Lee
Col. Harry D. Henshel
William M. Lennox
John G. Heese
John M. Leonard
A. B. Hill
Mrs. Alice Lev
Mrs. Louis M. Hills, Jr.
David A. Levitch
Roland J. Hines
Charles Levy
Thomas D. Hinton
Dean J. Lewis
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Hoover
Alva E. Lindley
THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 1956
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4:35 pm
National Council of the United Service Organizations, continued:
Commander M. J. MacInnes
Rear Adm. & Mrs. P.M. Rhea
Clarence Malone
Anthony W. Rhodes
Clarence Marshall
Virgil Rice
Norman S. Marshall
Charles E. Robertson
Benjamin P. Mates
David M. Robison
Clifford H. May
Fount Robison
Dr. Spencer J. McCallie
Mrs. Albert Rose
W. D. McIntyre
Edmund C. Rosenberg
James W. McKinley
Miss Elizabeth Rowe
Brig. Milton I. McMahon
Oliver R. Rowe
Donald I. McMahon
Maj. Gen. P. J. Ryan
Donald McMillan
Edward L. Ryerson
Rt. Rev. Msgr. T. J. McNamara
James Sauter
Charles J. McNeil
George J. Schaefer
Mrs. George C. Meade
Emmanuel Schifani
Louis J. Meillette
Emil Schram
Noel R. Michell
Hess T. Sears
Robert F. Milar
Chris Seely
Robert B. Miller
Mrs. Mary Sestito
James S. Mitchell
Morton C. Shaffro
Thomas J. Monaghan
Mrs. G. H. Shaw
M/Sgt. Robert K. Moorehead
Edward Shea
Justin M. Morrill
Edward Sheehan
Barrying M. Morrison
H. C. Shoemaker
Rodney F. Moulton
Jack Silverstein
Jack Mullins
Mrs. S. M. Simons
Mrs. Arthur L. Nash
Adm. W. S. Sinton
David Nopper
Curtis L. Smith
Harold J. Nutting
Fred C. Smith
Robert Lee O'Brien, Jr.
Harold V. Smith
H. Bruce Palmer
Ida S. Snider
Col. James F. Patterson
Rex E. Staley
John A. Peluso
Col. John E. Stephens
Charles P. Penney
Benjamin Sternberg
Maj. Gen. George B. Peoloe
Mary Stevens
C. Nelson Phelps
Paul C. Stokley
Lawrence Phillips
George W. Strake
Bernard Postal
Mrs. Ray Strong
William H. Press
Adm. Felix B. Stump
Howard H. Raitt
John L. Sullivan
Jennings Randolph
M. Ross Swartz
Lt. Col. William Range
Rt. Rev. Msgr. Paul F. Tanner
Mrs. Lucian Y. Ray
John G. Thompson
THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 1956
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4:35 pm
National Council of the United Service Organizations, continued:
John S. Thompson
Lt. Philip E. Collier
Charles V. Titus
L. T. Finnerty
Russell S. Tobin
Mrs. B. C. Grangaard
William C. Tracy
Thomas Knudsen
Edwin F. Trevor
Mrs. Benjamin Mates
T. Clark Tucker
Mr. Robert J. Maloney
Ella W. Turner
R. B. Roberts
Dr. E. R. Van DeGrift
James Seeley
Herbert P. Velser
Charles W. Walcott
H. Holmes Vogel
Mrs. John L. Wellinghoff
William D. Walsh
Albert S. Phillips
Basil L. Walters
Miss Bernice Vigar
Frank B. Warren
Mrs. W. Harry Haller
Henry Weber
Joseph Weber
Theodore H. Wegener
Austin Welch
John L. Wellinghoff
William G. Werner
E. L. White
Miles White
Henry C. Wilkinson
Rear Adm. J. M. Will
Joan Willard
Col. E. C. Williams
Hon. Charles E. Wilson
Richard Wisner
Dean M. Wooden
William S. Woods
John C. Wyle
Thomas P. Wynkoop
Charles R. Yates
Hon. J. Howard Zieman
Victor D. Ziminsky
Thomas M. Fowler
Mrs. Henry Mannix
James B. Massey
Mrs. R. M. Caine
Rose Marrone
Rt. Rev. Msgr. R. J. Glover
Mr. Charles Aaron
Dr. Leonard Aries
5:00 pm
The President departed the office and went to the Mansion.
THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 1956
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7:40 pm
The President, accompanied by Mr. Aksel Nielsen
and General Alfred Gruenther, departed the
White House and motored to the Mayflower
Hotel to attend a dinner given for the National
Business Advisory Council and sponsored by
the U. S. Department of Commerce.
7:43 pm
Arrived at the Mayflower Hotel.
The President and
his guests were greeted by:
Hon. Sinclair Weeks
Hon. Walter White, Assistant Secretary of Commerce
8:00 pm
Dinner was held in the Chinese Room of the Mayflower Hotel.
9:58 pm
The President, accompanied by Mr. Aksel Nielsen and
General Alfred Gruenther, departed the Mayflower
Hotel and returned to the White House.
10:01 pm
Arrived at the White House.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 1956
7:45 am
(Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge)
(Had breakfast with the President) OFF THE RECORD
8:36 am
The President, accompanied by General Alfred Gruenther
and Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, arrived at
the office.
9:02 - 9:12 am
H. E. John A. Costello, Prime Minister of Ireland
called on the President to present a bowl of
shamrocks for St. Patrick's Day. Also present:
H. E. The Ambassador of Ireland,
John Joseph Hearne
Mr. Charles Murray, Principal Officer in
the Prime Minister's Department
9:18 - 9:20 am
The President visited with the Sub Cabinet in the
Cabinet Room.
9:20 - 9:35 am
Hon. Herbert Hoover, Jr.
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
9:35 - 9:48 am
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
9:48 - 10:06 am
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
10:06 - 10:12 am
Hon. Gerald Morgan
10:12 - 10:14 am
Mr. William J. Hopkins
10:20 am
The President departed the office and went to the
swimming pool.
10:55 am
The President returned to the office,
11:00 am
The President departed for his Farm in Gettysburg, Pa.
12:52 pm
Arrived at the Gettysburg Farm.
(The President was accompanied on his
trip to the Gettysburg Farm by:
General Alfred Gruenther
Mr. William Robinson
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 1956
GETTYSBURG, PA.
10:45 - 11:45 am The President toured the Farm, accompanied by
General Alfred Gruenther
General Howard McC. Snyder
General Arthur Nevins
Mr. George Allen
SUNDAY, MARCH 18, 1956
10:00 - 11:05 am The President toured the Farm, accompanied by
Mr. and Mrs. Allyn Ryan
General Arthur Nevins
Mr. George Allen
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
MONDAY, MARCH 19, 1956
9:05 am
The President, accompanied by
General Alfred Gruenther
Mr. William Robinson
Mr. George Allen
departed the Farm and motored to the
White House.
11:32 am
Arrived at the White House and went to the office.
11:34 - 11:37 am
Colonel Robert L. Schulz
11:40 - 11:47 am
Hon. Howard Pyle
12:02 pm
The President departed the office and went to
swimming pool.
12:07 pm
The President went to the Mansion.
1:00 pm
LUNCH
1:55 pm
The President returned to the office.
2:00 pm - 2:20 pm
Hon. James Hagerty
2:30 - 3:03 pm
Hon. Herbert Hoover, Jr.
3:04 - 3:47 pm
General John S. Bragdon
Hon. Gabriel Hauge
3:50 - 4:12 pm
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Gerald Morgan
4:14 - 4:34 pm
Hon. Gabriel Hauge
4:35 - 4:43 pm
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
5:08 pm
The President departed the office and went
to the swimming pool.
5:50 pm
Returned to the office.
6:15 pm
The President went to the Mansion.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
TUESDAY, MARCH 20, 1956
8:22 am
The President arrived at the office.
8:23 - 8:26 am
Mr. William J. Hopkins
8:28 - 8:42 am
Mrs. Ann Whitman in for dictation.
8:43 - 9:00 am
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
Hon. Bryce Harlow
Hon. I. Jack Martin
9:00 - 10:00 am
LEGISLATIVE LEADERS MEETING (The President presiding)
The Vice President
Senator Styles Bridges
Senator William F. Knowland
Senator Leverett Saltonstall
Senator George D. Aiken
Representative Joseph W. Martin, Jr.
Representative Charles A. Halleck
Representative Leslie C. Arends
Hon. Rowland Hughes
Hon. Ezra Taft Benson
Mr. Jack Anderson
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
Hon. Gerald Morgan
Hon. James Hagerty
Hon. Howard Pyle
Hon. Gabriel Hauge
Hon. Bryce Harlow
Hon. I. Jack Martin
Hon. Earle D. Chesney
Hon. Homer Gruenther
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
10:22 - 10:37 am
Hon. Richard T. Nixon
10:38 - 10:55 am
Hon. Meyer Kestnbaum
Hon. Sherman Adams
10:50 - 11:08 am
(Hon. James Hagerty)
OFF THE RECORD
11:10 - 11:55 am
Reverend Billy Graham
TUESDAY, MARCH 20, 1956
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12:00 Noon
The President departed the office and went to the
swimming pool.
12:18 pm
The President departed the pool and went to the Mansion.
1:00 pm - 2:15
Hon. Herbert Hoover, Jr.
Hon. John McCloy
(Had luncheon with the President)
2:25 pm
The President returned to the office.
2:35 - 3:11 pm
Mr. James Bishop
Hon. James Hagerty
3:12 - 3:20 pm
Hon. Rowland Hughes
Hon. Percival Brundage
3:35 - 3:50 pm
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
3:50 - 4:12 pm
Hon. Herbert Brownell
Hon. Sherman Adams
4:13 - 4:35 pm
The President went to the South Grounds to
hit golf balls.
4:40 pm
The President returned to the office.
4:45 - 5:00 pm
Mrs. Ann Whitman in for dictation.
5:00 pm
The President departed the office and went to the Mansion,
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 1956
8:12 am
The President arrived in the office.
8:13 - 8:16 am
Mr. William J. Hopkins
8:14 - 8:28 am
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
9:00 - 9:50 am
Hon. Lewis Strauss
Hon. William H. Jackson
Hon, Herbert Hoover, Jr.
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
10:00 - 10:30 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. James Hagerty
Hon. Fred Seaton
Hon. Gabriel Hauge
Hon. Gerald Morgan
Hon. I. Jack Martin
Hon. Murray Snyder
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
(Pre-Press Conference Briefing)
10:30 - 11:05 am
PRESS CONFERENCE
11:06 am
The President returned to the office.
11:10 - 11:15 am
(The following attended the Swearing-in of
Mr. Peter Grimm as Director, United States
Operations Mission to Italy, which was held
OFF THE RECORD
in the President's office):
Mrs. Peter Grimm
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Binns
Hon. and Mrs. Percival Brundage
Countess Casagrande
Mr. and Mrs. William J. Demarest
Dr. D. A. Fitzgerald
Mr. and Mrs. John W. Harris
Mrs. John B. Hollister
Major B. C. Ormerod
Colonel and Mrs. Harold Reigelman
Mr. Howard Sloane
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Snadbeck
Mr. and Mrs. James P. Sutton
Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Thibault
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 1956
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11:15 - 11:30 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. James Hagerty
11:30 - 11:32 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
11:38 - 11:42 am
Hon. James Hagerty
11:45 am
The President went to the swimming pool.
1:00 pm
LUNCH
2:45 pm
The President, accompanied by Mr. Barry Leithead and
son, returned to the office.
3:10 - 3:20 pm
Hon. I. Jack Martin
3:20 - 3:30 pm
Mr. James Durfee, Madison
Hon. Sherman Adams
3:30 - 3:38 pm
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
4:00 - 4:07 pm
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
4:18 4:25 pm
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
4:28 pm
The President went out on the South Grounds to
hit golf balls.
5:05 pm
The President returned to the office.
5:10 pm
The President walked over to the Mansion.
5:30 pm
Hon. John Foster Dulles
Hon. Herbert Hoover
(Met with the President in the Mansion).
THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 1956
Page 2
9:50 - 10:00 am
Hon. John Foster Dulles
Hon. James Lay
10:00 - 12:17 pm
NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL (280th Meeting)
The President
Hon. John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State
Hon. Charles E. Wilson, Secretary of Defense
Hon. Reuben Robertson, Deputy Secretary of Defense
Hon. Arthur Flemming, Director, ODM
Hon. George M. Humphrey, Secretary of the Treasury
Hon. Herbert Brownell, Jr., the Attorney General
Hon. Amos J. Peaslee, for the Special Assistant to
the President for Disarmament
Hon. Rowland Hughes, Director, Bureau of the Budget
Hon. Lewis L. Strauss, Special Assistant to the
President for Atomic Energy
Hon. Abbott Washburn, Acting Director, U. S. I. A.
Hon. Percival Brundage, Deputy Director, Bureau of
the Budget
Hon. Arthur W. Radford, Chairman, Joint Chiefs
of Staff
Hon. Allen W. Dulles, Director of Central Intelligence
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
Hon. Herbert Hoover, Jr.
Hon. Reuben Robertson, Deputy Secretary of Defense
Hon. Robert Bowie, Assistant Secretary of State
Hon. John B. Hollister, Director, I. C. A.
Hon. William H. Jackson, Special Assistant to the
President
Hon. James S. Lay, Jr.
Hon. S. Everett Gleason
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
12:17 - 12:24 pm
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
Mrs. Ann Whitman
12:25 pm
The President departed the office and went to the
swimming pool.
12:57 pm
The President went to the Mansion.
1:00 pm
LUNCH
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 1956
7:52 am
The President arrived at the office.
8:24 - 8:28 am
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
8:28 - 8:30 am
Hon. John Foster Dulles
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
8:30 - 9:50 am
BIPARTISAN LEGISLATIVE MEETING
(At this meeting Hon.
The President
John Foster Dulles made
Senator Styles Bridges
a report on his Far East
Senator Walter F. George
and Middle East trip)
Senator Theodore F. Green
Senator Carl Hayden
Senator Lyndon Johnson
Senator William F. Knowland
Senator Richard B. Russell
Senator Leverett Saltonstall
Senator H. Alexander Smith
Senator Alexander Wiley
Representative Carl Albert
Representative Leo E. Allen
Representative Leslie C. Arends
Representative Charles A. Halleck
Representative John W. McCormack
Representative Joseph W. Martin, Jr.
Representative Sam Rayburn
Representative James R. Richards
Representative Dewey Short
Representative John Taber
Representative Carl Vinson
Representative John M. Vorys
Hon. John Foster Dulles
Hon. Herbert Hoover, Jr.
Hon. Douglas MacArthur II
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
Hon. Gerald Morgan
Hon. Howard Pyle
Hon. Murray Snyder
Hon. I. Jack Martin
Hon. James Hagerty
Hon. Homer Gruenther
Hon. Bryce Harlow
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 1956
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2:16 pm
The President returned to the office,
2:20 - 3:00 pm
Hon. Sherman Adams
2:30 - 3:00 pm
Hon. Herbert Hoover, Jr.
Mr. Dana Latham, Los Angeles, California
Hon. Sherman Adams
3:30 - 3:40 pm
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
3:40 pm
The President went to the South Grounds
to hit golf balls.
4:45 pm
The President returned to the office,
4:55 pm
The President went to the Mansion.
5:30 - 7:00 pm
(OFF THE RECORD MEETING AT THE MANSION)
(Hon. George M. Humphrey)
(Hon. James P. Mitchell)
(Mr. David McDonald)
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 1956
8:13 am
The President arrived at the office.
8:15 - 8:17 am
Mr. William J. Hopkins
8: 17 - 9:28 am
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
8:32 - 8:35 am
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
8:33 - 8:34 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
8:45 - 8:50 am
Hon. Sinclair Weeks
Hon. James Hagerty
9:00 - 11:00 am
CABINET MEETING
The President
Hon. John Foster Dulles
Hon. Herbert Hoover, Jr.
Hon. David W. Kendall (for Secretary Humphrey)
Hon. Charles E. Wilson
Hon. Herbert Brownell
Hon. Arthur Summerfield
Hon. Fred G. Aandahl, Assistant Secretary of Interior
Hon. Ezra Taft Benson
Hon. Sinclair Weeks
Hon. James P. Mitchell
Hon, Marion B. Folsom
Hon. Rowland Hughes
Hon. Percival Brundage
Hon. Arthur Flemming
Hon. Philip Young
Hon. Arthur Burns
Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
Hon. Fred Seaton
Hon. Howard Pyle
Hon. Gerald Morgan
Hon. I. Jack Martin
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
Hon. Bryce Harlow
Hon. William Jackson
(continued)
FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 1956
Page 2
9:00 - 11:00 am
CABINET MEETING (continued)
Hon. Charles Masterson
Hon. James Hagerty
Hon. Gabriel Hauge
Hon. Murray Snyder
Hon. Maxwell Rabb
Hon. Bradley Patterson
Hon. Arthur Minnich
Hon. Edward McCabe
11:00 - 11:10 am
General J. Lawton Collins
11:10 - 11:37 am
The President returned to Cabinet Meeting.
11:37 - 11:55 am
Hon. Val Peterson
Hon. James Lay
Mr. Ralph Spear
12:00 Noon
The President departed the office and went to the
swimming pool.
12:45 pm
Departed the pool and went to the Mansion.
1:00 pm
LUNCH
2:12 pm
The President departed the White House and
motored to Burning Tree Country Club.
2:37 pm
Arrived at Burning Tree.
2:55 pm
The President teed off from the 10th tee, playing
from the 10th hole to the 18th with
Mr. John McClure.
4:20 pm
The President, accompanied by Mr. John McClure,
departed Burning Tree and motored to the
White House.
4:46 pm
Arrived at the White House and went to the office.
4:47 - 5:00 pm
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
5:00 - 5:15 pm
Hon. Herbert Brownell
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Gerald Morgan
Hon. Maxwell Rabb
FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 1956
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5:15 - 5:20 pm
Hon. Herbert Brownell
5:20 pm
The President departed the office and went to the Mansion.
5:30 pm
Senator Walter F. George
(Saw the President at the Mansion).
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 1956
8:17 am
The President arrived at the office.
8:21 - 8:55 am
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
8:55 - 8:57 am
Hon. I. Jack Martin
8:57 - 9:07 am
Hon, Herbert Hoover, Jr.
Hon. Sherman Adams
9:00 - 10:17 am
Hon. Charles E. Wilson
Hon. Herbert Hoover, Jr.
Hon. Allen Dulles
Hon. Donald Quarles
Hon. Arthur Radford
Hon. Nathan Twining W
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
10:17 - 10:20 am
Hon. Charles E. Wilson
Hon. Arthur Radford
Hon. Herbert Hoover, Jr.
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
10:20 - 10:46 am
Hon. Herbert Brownell, Jr.
10:47 - 11:06 am
Hon. James Hagerty
11:35 - 11:42 am
Hon. Gerald Morgan
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
11:42 - 11:54 am
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
12:20 pm
The President departed the office and went to the
swimming pool.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
SUNDAY, MARCH 25, 1956
10:23 pm
The President departed the South Grounds of the White
House and motored directly to Union Station and
boarded the train at 10:34 pm.
11:00 pm
The President and his party departed Union Station via
Chesapeake and Ohio train enroute to White Sulphur
Springs, West Virginia.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
MONDAY, MARCH 26, 1956
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS
WEST VIRGINIA
7:30 am
The President and his official party arrived at
White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia.
8:20 am
Departed the train and motored to the Greenbrier Hotel,
accompanied by Dr. Howard McC. Snyder and
Mr. Victor Purse, State Department.
8:25 am
Arrived at the Greenbrier Hotel.
The President was
greeted by:
Mr. E. Truman Wright
Vice President and General Manager of the
Greenbrier Hotel
Mr. Walter J. Tuouhy
President of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
Mr. Richard E. Holtzman
Assistant General Manager of the Greenbrier Hotel
Mr. Cyrus Eaton
Chairman of the Board of the Chesapeake and Ohio
Railroad
8:50 am
The President departed the Hotel and went to the golf course.
Upon arrival at the golf course, photographs were taken.
9:07 am
The President teed off with the following:
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
Hon. James C. Hagerty
Mr. Sammy Snead
12:12 pm
Eighteen holes completed. Photographs were again taken.
12:23 pm
The President departed the golf course and motored to the Hotel.
1:35 pm
The President had lunch with:
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
Hon. James C. Hagerty
Dr. Howard McC. Snyder
2:31 pm
The following met with the President in the President's suite:
Hon. John Foster Dulles
Hon. Livingston Merchant
Hon. Henry F. Holland
Hon. James Hagerty
MONDAY, MARCH 26, 1956
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WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS
WEST VIRGINIA
2:35 pm
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley joined the group already in the
President's suite.
4:00 pm
The President greeted the Prime Minister of Canada at the
entrance of the Hotel. Pictures were taken, then the
President escorted the Prime Minister to his suite.
5:15 pm
The President greeted the President of Mexico,
His Excellency Senor Don Adolfo Ruiz Cortines,
at the entrance to the Hotel. Pictures were
taken, then the President escorted President
Cortines to his suite.
7:30 pm
The President gave a dinner in his suite in honor of the
Prime Minister of Canada and the President of Mexico.
The following were present:
CANADA
The Right Honorable Louis S. St. Laurent
Prime Minister of Canada
The Honorable Lester B. Pearson
Secretary of State for External Affairs of Canada
His Excellency Arnold D. P. Heeney
Ambassador of Canada
The Honorable John W. Holmes
Assistant Under Secretary of State for External
Affairs of Canada
MEXICO
His Excellency Senor Don Adolfo Ruiz Cortines
President of the United Mexican States
His Excellency Luis Padilla Nervo
Minister of Foreign Relations of Mexico
His Excellency Senor Don Manuel Tello
Ambassador of Mexico
UNITED STATES
The Honorable John Foster Dulles
Secretary of State
The Honorable Livingston T. Merchant
Assistant Secretary of State
The Honorable Henry F. Holland
Assistant Secretary of State
(continued)
MONDAY, MARCH 26, 1956
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WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS
WEST VIRGINIA
7:30 pm
Dinner in honor of the Prime Minister of Canada and the
President of Mexico (continued):
The Honorable Francis White
United States Ambassador to Mexico
The Honorable R. Douglas Stuart
United States Ambassador to Canada
The Honorable John F. Simmons
Chief of Protocol, U. S. Department of State
10:10 pm
Dinner completed.
10:30 pm
The President retired for the evening.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
TUESDAY, MARCH 27, 1956
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS
WEST VIRGINIA
8:15 am
The President had breakfast with the following:
Dr. Milton Eisenhower
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
Hon. James C. Hagerty
Dr. Howard McC. Snyder
Commander Edward L. Beach
Colonel Robert L. Schulz
Colonel William Draper
Colonel Vernon Walters
Mr. Walter J. Tuouhy
Mr. Cyrus Eaton
Mr. E. Truman Wright
9:58 am
Hon. John Foster Dulles
10:15 am
The President went to the front of the Hotel to have
pictures made with the Prime Minister of Canada
and the President of Mexico.
10:24 am
The following met with the President in his suite:
The Right Honorable S. St. Laurent
Prime Minister of Canada
The Honorable Lester B. Pearson
Secretary of State for External Affairs of Canada
His Excellency Arnold D. P. Heeney
Ambassador of Canada
The Honorable John W. Holmes, Assistant Under Secretary
of State for External Affairs of Canada
His Excellency Senor Don Adolfo Ruiz Cortines
President of the United Mexican States
His Excellency Luis Padilla Nervo
Minister of Foreign Relations of Mexico
His Excellency Senor Don Manuel Tello
Ambassador of Mexico
The Honorable John Foster Dulles
The Honorable Livingston T. Merchant, Assistant
Secretary of State
The Honorable Henry F. Holland, Assistant Secretary of State
The Honorable Francis White, U. S. Ambassador of Mexico
The Honorable R. Douglas Stuart, U. S. Ambassador to Canada
The Honorable John F. Simmons, Chief of Protocol,
U. S. Department of State
TUESDAY, MARCH 27, 1956
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WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS
WEST VIRGINIA
12:20 pm
Meeting adjourned.
1:00 pm
Luncheon in the President's suite. The following were
present:
The Right Honorable Louis S. St. Laurent,
Prime Minister of Canada
The Honorable Lester B. Pearson
Secretary of State for External Affairs of Canada
His Excellency Senor Don Adolfo Ruiz Cortines
President of the United Mexican States
His Excellency Luis Padilla Nervo
Minister of Foreign Relations of Mexico
Hon. John Foster Dulles
Dr. Milton Eisenhower
2:27 pm
The following met with the President in his suite:
President Cortines of Mexico
Minister Luis Padilla Nervo of Mexico
Ambassador Don Manuel Tello of Mexico
Hon. John Foster Dulles
Hon. Henry Holland
Hon. John F. Simmons
Hon. Francis White
3:30 pm
The following met with the President in his suite:
The Right Honorable Louis S. St. Laurent
Prime Minister of Canada
The Honorable Lester B. Pearson
Secretary of State for External Affairs of Canada
Hon. John Foster Dulles
4:22 pm
The President, accompanied by Hon. Bernard M. Shanley,
departed the Hotel and motored to the Greenbrier
Golf Course, arriving at 4:25 pm.
4:34 pm
The President teed off with the following:
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
Mr. Sammy Snead
Mr. Garry Nixon, assistant pro at Greenbrier Golf Club
6:28 pm
Golf game completed.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 1956
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4:05 - 4:16 pm
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
4:40 - 6:30 pm
(Hon. John Foster Dulles)
OFF THE RECORD
(Hon. Herbert Hoover, Jr.)
(Hon. George V. Allen, Assistant Secretary of State)
(Departed meeting at 6:05 pm)
(Mr. William M. Rountree, Deputy Assistant
Secretary of State)
(Departed meeting at 6:05 pm)
(Hon. Charles E. Wilson)
(Departed meeting at 6:19 pm)
(Hon. Arthur Radford)
(Departed meeting at 6:19 pm)
(Hon. Reuben Robertson)
(Departed meeting at 6:19 pm)
(Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster)
(Departed meeting at 6:30 pm)
6:46 pm
The President departed the office and went to the Mansion.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 1956
8:03 am
The President arrived at the office.
8:10 - 8:25 am
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
8:26 - 8:28 am
Mr. William J. Hopkins
8:30 - 8:45 am
Mrs. Ann Whitman for dictation.
9:00 - 10:10 am
(Senator William F. Knowland)
OFF THE RECORD
(Senator Styles Bridges)
(Senator Leverett Saltonstall)
(Senator John W. Bricker)
(Senator Everett M. Dirksen)
(Hon. John Foster Dulles)
(Hon. Herbert Brownell)
(Hon. Wilton B. Persons)
(Hon. Gerald Morgan)
(Hon. I. Jack Martin)
(Conference on the Bricker Amendment)
10:10 - 10:24 am
Hon. John Foster Dulles
10:26 - 10:34 am
Hon. John McCone
(Who had just returned from the Vatican)
10:35 - 11:05 am
Admiral Arthur W. Radford
General Gerald C. Thomas, USMC (Retired)
Hon. James Lay
11:35 - 11:45 am
The President and Mrs. Eisenhower were presented
cherry trees from the 1956 Cherry Blossom
Festival Committee. The trees were a gift
and are to be planted at the Gettysburg Farm.
The following were present:
Mr. Orville Crouch, General Chariman,
Cherry Blossom Festival Committee
Mr. Edward J. Kelly, Vice Chairman,
Cherry Blossom Festival Committee
Mr. John A. Logan, Chairman,
Cherry Blossom Ball Committee
Mr. Clarence Arata, Executive Director,
Greater National Capital Committee of the
Washington Board of Trade
THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 1956
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11:15 am
The President went to the swimming pool.
1:00 pm
(LUNCH)
2:30 - 3:25 pm
Hon. Arthur Radford
Hon. Reuben Robertson
Hon. W. J. McNeil
Hon. Rowland Hughes
Hon. Percival Brundage
Mr. Ralph W. E. Reid, Bureau of the Budget
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
(On Defense Budget)
3:25 - 4:05 pm
Hon. Bernard M. Baruch
4:06 - 4:11 pm
Hon. James Hagerty
4:12 - 4:24 pm
Hon. Gerald Morgan
4:25 - 4:45 pm
Mrs. Ann Whitman for dictation.
5:20 pm
The President departed the office and went to the
Mansion.
5:30 pm
Mr. Jack Budinger
(Saw the President at the Mansion).
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 1956
8:00 am
The President arrived at the office.
8:45 - 8:50 am
Hon. James C. Hagerty
8:50 - 9:12 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. James Hagerty
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
9:12 - 9:22 am
Hon. Rowland Hughes
(Paid a call on the President before leaving his
post as Budget Bureau Director)
9:23 - 9:40 am
General Howard McC. Snyder
Mrs. Ann Whitman
9:40 - 9:45 am
General Howard McC. Snyder
9:45 - 10:00 am
Hon. Maxwell Rabb
10:01 - 10:06 am
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
Mr. William J. Hopkins
10:06 - 10:25 am
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
10:26 - 11:05 am
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
11:22 am
The President departed the office and went to the
swimming pool.
12:00 Noon
The President went to the Mansion,
1:00 pm
LUNCH
1:20 pm
The President and Mrs. Eisenhower departed the
White House and motored to the National Presbyterian
Church to attend Good Friday Services.
1:27 pm
Arrived at the National Presbyterian Church.
1:55 pm
Departed the Church and returned to the White House.
2:00 pm
The President returned to the office.
2:30 - 2:40 pm
Hon. James C. Hagerty
FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 1956
3:06 - 4:10 pm
(Admiral Arthur W. Radford)
OFF THE RECORD
(General Nathan F. Twining)
(General Maxwell D. Taylor)
(Admiral Arleigh A. Burke)
(Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster)
4:12 pm
The President went to the Dentist Office in the Mansion.
4:35 pm
The President went to the South Grounds to hit golf balls.
5:35 pm
The President returned to the office.
5:40 - = 5:48 pm
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
5:50 pm
The President went to the Mansion.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 1956
8:02 am
The President arrived at the office.
8:28 - 8:31 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
8:31 - 8:35 am
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
8:35 - 8:51 am
The President received the following members of
the President's Commission on Veterans' Pensions:
General Omar Bradley
Mr. Clarence Adamy
General William J. Donovan
Dr. Paul R. Hawley
Dr. Martin D. Jenkins
Mr. Theodore S. Peterson
Mr. John S. Thompson
Major General E. M. Brannon
Executive Director of the Commission
Mr. M. S. March
Technical Adviser of the Commission
Hon. Sherman Adams
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
8:51 - 8:59 am
General Omar Bradley
9:00 - 9:04 am
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
9:04 - 9:05 am
Mr. William J. Hopkins
9:08 - 9:38 am
Senator George W. Malone of Nevada
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
9:40 - 10:00 am
Hon. Walter A. Gordon
Governor of the Virgin Islands
Hon. Douglas McKay
10:00 - 10:06 am
General Howard McC. Snyder
Major John Eisenhower
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
10:05 - 10:06 am
Hon. Gerald Morgan
10:06 am
The President departed the White House and motored
to Burning Tree Country Club.
SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 1956
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10:30 am
The President and Major John Eisenhower arrived
at Burning Tree Country Club.
10:47 am
The President teed off with the following:
Major John Eisenhower
Mr. John McClure
1:11 pm
Completed eighteen holes of golf.
1:49 pm
The President and Major John Eisenhower departed
the Club and motored to the White House.
2:12 pm
Arrived at the White House. The President went to the
Billiard Room and greeted approximately 25 young
children who were guests for the birthday party
of David Eisenhower. Entertainment on this
occasion was furnished by Roy Rogers and Dale
Evans of Television and Radio fame.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
SUNDAY, APRIL 1, 1956
EASTER SUNDAY
10:49 am
The President and Mrs. Eisenhower departed the
White House and motored to the National Presbyterian
Church.
10:54 am
Arrived at the Church and attended the 11:00 A. M. Services.
12:09 pm
As the President and Mrs. Eisenhower were departing the
Church, still and movie pictures were taken of the
President, First Lady, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans.
12:15 pm
Arrived at the White House.
12:35 pm
At the Southeast side of the South Portico, pictures
were taken of the President, First Lady, Major and
Mrs. John Eisenhower and children, Colonel and
Mrs. Gordon Moore and family, and Mrs. Elivira Doud.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
MONDAY, APRIL 2, 1956
8:52 am
The President arrived at the office.
9:00 - 9:30 am
Lt. General Jean E. Valluy
French Representative on the NATO Standing Group
Admiral Arthur W. Radford
Lt. Colonel Vernon Walters
Interpreter from the State Department
10:00 - 10:07 am
The following attended the S wearing - in ceremony
of Hon. Percival F. Brundage, Director,
Bureau of the Budget: (In the Cabinet Room):
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph L. Baker
Mr. Raymond T. Bowman
Mr. and Mrs. Fontaine Bradley
Mr. Sam Broadbent
Mrs. Percival F. Brundage
Mr. William D. Carey
Miss Clemtine Dagneaux
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Danne
Mr. and Mrs. B. H. DeVos
Mrs. Polly Dickinson
Mr. William F. Finan
Mr. and Mrs. Franklin G. Floete
Mr. and Mrs. Ted Herz
Mr. Phillip S. Hughes
Mr. Edmond C. Hutchinson
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Inglis
Mr. Robert Macy
Mr. Robert E. Merriam
Mrs. Pat Mielke
Mr. and Mrs. Nick Ollinger
Mr. and Mrs. Percy Rappaport
Dr. and Mrs. R. W. E. Reid
Mr. Carl H. Schwartz, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Streit
Mrs. Kay Thomsen
Mr. Carl W. Tiller
Mr. and Mrs. Philip Young
Mr. Ellis H. Veatch
Mr. Wilbur H. Ziehl
Justice Harold V. Burton officiated
10:08- 10:10 am
Hon. James C. Hagerty
MONDAY, APRIL 2, 1956
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10:22 - 10:26 am
Hon. Gabriel Hauge
11:06 - 11:17 am
The President and Mrs. Eisenhower walked
from the President's office out on the
South Grounds and greeted guests
participating in the annual Easter Egg
Roll on the White House Lawn. They
then proceeded up the steps to the South
Portico where the President briefly
addressed the group. The President
and Mrs. Eisenhower then returned to
the Mansion.
11:18 am
The President went to the swimming pool.
11:50 am
The President departed the swimming pool
and went to the Mansion.
12:30 pm
The President, accompanied by General John S.
Bragdon, departed the White House and
motored to the Army-Navy Club to attend
a luncheon with former West Point classmates.
12:32 pm
Arrived at the Army-Navy Club. The President
was greeted by Mr. William H. Crawford,
Manager of the Club.
2:09pm
The President and General John S. Bragdon
departed the Club and motored to the White House.
2:12 pm
Arrived at the White House and went to the office.
2:34 - 3:37 pm
General Maxwell Taylor
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
3:37 - 3:53 pm
Hon. Gerald Morgan
3:53 - 4:12 pm
Mr. Ralph Reed
4:12 - 4:49 pm
General Robert Cutler
4:50 - 5:17 pm
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
MONDAY, APRIL 2, 1956
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5:17 - 5:25 pm
Hon. Kevin McCann
5:30 - 5:40 pm
Hon. Sherman Adams
6:50 pm
The President departed the office and
went to the Mansion.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 1956
8:09 am
The President arrived at the office.
8:25 - 8:30 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
8:33 - 8:42 am
Hon. Gabriel Hauge
8:42 - 8:54 am
Hon. James Hagerty
9:06 - 9:29 am
General Benjamin Caffey
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
10:30 - 11:05 am
Sir William F. Dickson
General Sir John Whiteley
U. N. Representative to NATO Standing Group
Admiral Arthur Radford
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
11:05 - 11:15 am
General Wilton B. Persons
11:25 am
The President, accompanied by Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
and Hon. James Hagerty, motored to the District
Red Cross Building.
11:30 am
Arrived at the District Red Cross Building. Here the
President was greeted by Hon. Gabriel Hauge and
Mr. James Lambie, who escorted him to the stage
where the President addressed the 12th Annual Conference
of the Advertising Council.
11:47 am
Departed the Red Cross Building.
11:51 am
Arrived at the White House.
11:55 am
The President went to the swimming pool.
12:45 pm
Departed the swimming pool and went to the Mansion.
2:00 pm
The President returned to the office.
2:04 - 2:17 pm
Mr. Clifford Folger
Mr. Thomas McCabe
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 1956
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2:17 - 2:50 pm
Hon. Leonard Hall
2:26 - 2:33 pm
Hon. Sherman Adams
2:50 - 2:56 pm
Dean A. R. Jones, Kansas State College
Hon. Percival Brundage
Hon. Fred Seaton
2:56 - 3:06 pm
Hon. Sherman Adams
3:53 - 3:56 pm
Hon. James Hagerty
4:04 - 5:00 pm
Hon. George M. Humphrey
Hon. Percival Brundage
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
5:00 pm
OFF THE RECORD Meeting in the Mansion:
(Hon. George M. Humphrey)
(Hon. Herbert Brownell
)
(Hon. Herbert Hoover, Jr. )
(Hon. Robert Anderson
)
(Hon. Arthur Flemming
)
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 1956
8:12 am
The President arrived at the office.
8:16 - 8:20 am
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
8:23 - 8:25 am
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
8:50 - 9:20 am
(Mr. Loyd Wright)
OFF THE RECORD
(Chairman, Commission on Government Security)
(Hon. Sherman Adams)
9:20 - 9:35 am
Mr. James Lay
9:45 - 9:52 am
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
10:00 - 10:28 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
Hon. James Hagerty
Hon. Fred Seaton
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
10:30 - 10:58 am
PRESS CONFERENCE
11:00 - 11:29 am
The President received the Sword of Hope, symbol of
the American Cancer Society, from Air Force
Lt. Colonel William Ralph Fitzgerald, an
apparently cured cancer victim.
The following
were also present:
Governor and Mrs. Walter J. Kohler
Miss Jane Parrish Fitzgerald (daughter)
Colonel George B. Green, Medical officer,
Surgeon General's Office
Mr. Clifton Reed, Public Relations Director,
American Cancer Society
11:07 - 11:29 am
Governor Walter J. Kohler
11:30 - 11:47 am
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
11:35 - 11:39 am
Hon. Sherman Adams (joined General Persons)
11:40 - 11:50 am
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
11:50 pm
The President departed the office and went to the Mansion.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 1956
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1:00 pm
The President departed the White House and motored
to Burning Tree Country Club.
1:30 pm
Arrived at Burning Tree.
1:47 pm
The President teed off from the first tee with
Mr. James Black, playing 20 holes of golf.
4:01 pm
Golf game completed.
4:30 pm
The President departed the Club and motored to the
White House.
5:00 pm
Arrived at the White House.
5:45 pm
The following met with the President at the Mansion:
Senator Leverett Saltonstall
Senator James H. Duff
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1956
8:15 am
The President arrived at the office.
8:17 - 8:23 am
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
8:23 - 8:27 am
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
8:30 - 8:48 am
Hon. Ross Rizley
8:50 - 8:59
Hon. George M. Humphrey
Hon. Percival Brundage
8:59 - 9:02 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
9:02 - 9:05 am
Hon. James Hagerty
9:05 - 10:15 am
NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL
The President
Hon. John Foster Dulles
Hon. Charles E. Wilson
Hon. Arthur Flemming
Hon. George M. Humphrey
Hon. Herbert Brownell
Hon. Amos J. Peaslee
Hon. Percival Brundage
Hon. Lewis L. Strauss
Hon. Theodore Streibert
Admiral Arthur W. Radford
Hon. Allen Dulles
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. William H. Jackson
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
Hon. Robert Bowie
Hon. Reuben Robertson
Hon. James S. Lay, Jr.
Hon. S. Everett Gleason
10:15 - 10:25 am
Hon. George M. Humphrey
Hon. Charles E. Wilson
Admiral Arthur Radford
Hon. Reuben Robertson
Hon. Percival Brundage
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1956
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10:35 - 11:25 am
Hon. Charles E. Wilson
Hon. George M. Humphrey
Hon. Donald A. Quarles
Hon. Charles A. Thomas
Hon. Charles C. Finucane
Admiral Arthur W. Radford
Hon. Reuben Robertson
Admiral Arleigh Burke
General Nathan Twining
General Randolph McC. Pate
Hon. Percival Brundage
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
11:25 - 11:29 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
11:29 - 11:32 am
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
11:55 am
The President, accompanied by Dr. Milton Eisenhower,
departed the office and went to the swimming pool.
11:42 am
Departed the pool and went to the Mansion.
1:00 pm
(LUNCH)
2:00 pm
The President returned to the office.
2:10 - 2:30 pm
Colonel Inez Haynes
Chief, Army Nurse Corps
Lt. Colonel Edith P. Turner
In Charge of Nurses, Fitzsimons Army Hospital in
Denver, Colorado
2:30 - 2:41 pm
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
2:41 - 3:09 pm
Hon. Arthur Burns
3:09 - 3:28 pm
Hon. Herbert Brownell
3:30 - 4:29 pm
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
Hon. Gabriel Hauge
Hon. Fred Seaton
Dr. Milton Eisenhower
4:29 - 5:00 pm
(HON. Thomas Stephens)
OFF THE RECORDS
THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1956
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5:09 pm
The President went out on the South Grounds to
hit golf balls.
5:30 pm
Returned to the office.
6:35 pm
Departed the office and went to the Mansion.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 1956
8:05 am
The President arrived at the office.
8:09 - 8:12 am
Mr. William J. Hopkins
8:14 - 8:22 am
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
8:30 - 9:00 am
Hon. John Foster Dulles
9:00 - 10:55 am
CABINET MEETING
The President
Hon. John Foster Dulles
Hon. George M. Humphrey
Hon. Reuben Robertson
Hon. Herbert Brownell
Hon. Maurice H. Stans
Hon. Douglas McKay
Hon, True D. Morse
Hon. Sinclair Weeks
Hon. James P. Mitchell
Hon. Herold C. Hunt
Hon. Percival Brundage
Hon. Arthur Flemming
Hon, Philip Young
Hon. Arthur Burns
Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
Hon. Gabriel Hauge
Hon. Howard Pyle
Hon. William H. Jackson
Hon. Meyer Kestnbaum
Hon. Kevin McCann
Commander Edward L. Beach
Hon. Fred Seaton
Hon. Maxwell Rabb
Hon. Bradley Patterson
Hon. Arthur Minnich
Hon. Joseph Winslow
Hon. Arthur Kimball
Hon. Jarold A. Kieffer
Dr. Milton Eisenhower
Mr. Harold Aitken
FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 1956
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10:55 am
The President was photographed with Hon.
Douglas McKay in the President's office.
(Secretary McKay had attended his last
Cabinet Meeting before his resignation).
11:00-11:10 am
The President presented the Young American Medal
for Bravery to Miss Patricia Ann Strickland,
Atlanta, Georga. Others present were:
Hon. Herbert Brownell
Hon. J. Edgar Hoover
Mr. G. Frederick Mullen, Justice Department
Mrs. Lionel Strickland, mother of
Patricia Ann Strickland
Mrs. Donald Jones (relative)
Mrs. L. M. Moore (relative)
11:10 - 11:20 am
Hon. Herold C. Hunt
Under Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare
Mr. Neil McElroy, President, Procter and Gamble Co.
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
Hon. James C. Hagerty
11:20 - 11:29 am
The following members of the Committee for the
White House Conference on Education presented
its report to the President:
Mr. Neil H. McElroy
Mr. Finis E. Engleman
Miss Mildred C. Ahlgren
Miss Ethel G. Brown
Mr. Ralph J. Bunche
Mr. John A. Hannah
Mr. James W. Hargrove
Mr. Albert J. Hayes
Miss Margaret Hickey
Hon. Oveta Culp Hobby
Mildred McA. Horton
James R. Killian, Jr.
W. Preston Lane, Jr.
Thomas Lazzio
Joseph C. McLain
William E. McManus
Lorimer D. Milton
Don G. Mitchell
FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 1956
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11:20 - 11:29 am
White House Conference on Education,
Committee for the (continued):
Frank C. Moore
Herschel D. Newson
William S. Paley
Martha Shull
Frank H. Sparks
Jesse G. Stratton
Harold W. Sweatt
H. Grant Vest
Mayme E. Williams
S. M. Brownell
Herold C. Hunt
Willis D. Gradison, Jr.
Clint Pace
Sloan Wilson
O. M. Gale
11:29 - 12:15 pm
Hon. Oveta Culp Hobby
12:15 - 12:17 pm
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
12:17 pm
The President departed the office and went to the
swimming pool.
1:00 pm
(LUNCH)
2:24 pm
The President arrived in the office.
2:25 - 2:26 pm
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
2:26 - 2:28 pm
Hon. Sherman Adams
2:30 - 3:05 pm
Hon. Ezra Taft Benson
3:05 - 3:13 pm
H. E. Masayuki Tani, Ambassador of Japan
(Made a courtesy call on the President)
3:16 - 4:00 pm
Hon. Dillon Anderson
4:12 - 4:24 pm
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
4:20 - 4:24 pm
Dr. Milton Eisenhower (joined General Persons in the
President's office).
FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 1956
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4:24 - 4:52 pm
Dr. Milton Eisenhower
4:34 - 4:40 pm
Hon, James C. Hagerty (joined Dr. Eisen hower)
5:00 - 5:09 pm
Mr. J. William Barba
5:09 - 5:15 pm
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
5:20 - 5:35 pm
Dr. Milton Eisenhower
Mrs. Ann Whitman
5:55 pm
The President departed the office and went to the Mansion.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 1956
7:55 am
The President arrived at the office.
8:15 - 8:30 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
8:32 - 8:34 am
Mr. William J. Hopkins
9:00 - 9:20 am
Hon. James S. Lay
9:22 - 9:30 am
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
9:30 - 9:44 am
Mr. Calvin Griffith, President of the Washington
Baseball Club, presented the American League
Baseball pass to the President. Photographs
were taken during the presentation.
9:45 - 9:52 am
H. E. George Arthur Padmore, newly appointed
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
of Liberia, called on the President to present
his credentials.
10:02 - 10:03 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
10:03 - 10:42 am
Hon. Ezra Taft Benson
Hon. True D. Morse
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
Hon. Gabriel Hauge
10:45 - 11:15 am
Dr. Milton Eisenhower
Hon. Robert Bowie
Hon. Kevin McCann
11:17 - 11:30 am
Hon. J. Hugo Aronson, Governor of Montana
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Kevin McCann
11:35 am
The President departed the office and went to the
swimming pool.
12:20 pm
Departed the pool and went to the Mansion.
1:00 pm
LUNCH
SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 1956
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1:37 pm
The President, accompanied by Dr. Milton Eisenhower,
departed the White House and motored to the farm
of Mrs. Gordon Moore, Hillsboro, Virginia,
which is 49 miles from Washington.
3:00 pm
Arrived at the farm of Mrs. Gordon Moore.
3:59 pm
The President and Dr. Milton Eisenhower departed
Hillsboro, Virginia, and motored to the White House.
5:35 pm
Arrived at the White House.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
SUNDAY, APRIL 8, 1956
NO ACTIV ITY THIS DATE.
MONDAY, APRIL 9, 1956
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11:05 am
The President and Mrs. Eisenhower, accompanied by
Mrs. Elvira Doud, departed the White House
enroute to MATS Terminal.
11:20 am
Airborne for Augusta, Georgia.
Others aboard the
Columbine were:
Dr. Howard McC. Snyder
Hon. and Mrs. James C. Hagerty
Mrs. Ann Whitman
Mrs. Mary Jane McCaffree
Miss Betty Allen
Lt. Olive Marsh
Miss Rose Wood
Sgt. and Mrs. John Moaney
1:15 pm
The Columbine landed at Bush Field, Augusta, Georgia.
1:25 pm
The President and his party departed Bush Field and
motored to the Augusta National Golf Club.
1:45 pm
Arrived at the Augusta National Club.
2:30 pm
The President teed off with the following:
Mr. Ed Dudley
Mr. Ellis D. Slater
Mr. Leonard Firestone
6:00 pm
Golf game completed, the President returned to his
cottage.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 1956
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA
8:28 am
The President departed his cottage and walked to
his office.
9:05 am
The President practiced golf until 10:00 am.
10:00 am
The President teed off with the following:
Mr. John Hay Whitney
Mr. Walton Jones
Mr. Ed Dudley
1:00 pm
Completed 18 holes.
1:05 pm
The President returned to the cottage.
No further activity this date.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 1956
(Because of the driving rains, the President
was unable to play golf on this date.)
8:15 am
The President departed the cottage and rode to
the office.
Stills, newsreels, TV pictures were taken
when the President signed Senate Bill #500.
11:10 am
The President returned to his cottage.
No further activity this date.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1956
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA
8:00 am
The President departed the cottage and walked
to the office.
9:10 am
Departed the office and went to the practice tee.
10:40 am
The President returned to the office.
10:50 am
Departed the office and walked to the pro shop.
11:00 am
The President went to the apartment of Mr. Clifford Roberts.
11:35 am
Returned to the cottage.
1:25 pm
The President teed off with the following:
Major John Eisenhower
Mr. Ed Dudley
Mr. Freeman Gosden
4:17 pm
Golf game completed.
5:00 pm
The President played catch ball with David Eisenhower
and watched David hit golf balls until 6:30 pm.
6:30 pm
Returned to the cottage.
No further activity this date.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1956
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA
8:15 am
The President departed the cottage and went to the office.
8:50 am
Departed the office and went to the pro shop.
9:00 am
Returned to the cottage.
9:05 am
The President walked to the practice tee and practiced
until 9:40 am.
9:40 am
Teed off with the following:
Major John Eisenhower
Mr. Sig Larmon
Mr. Ed Dudley
1:05 pm
Completed golf game.
1:15 pm
Returned to the cottage.
3:45 pm
The President went to the practice tee and practiced
until 4:08 pm.
4:12 pm
The President teed off from the 10th hole with the following:
Major John Eisenhower
Mr. Ed Dudley
Mr. Gene Stout, Assistant pro at the Augusta Golf Club.
(When the President arrived at the 15th hole, he
fished until 5:12 pm)
5:20 pm
Returned to the cottage.
No further activity this date.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1956
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA
7:33 am
The President departed the cottage and walked to the office.
7:55 am
Hon. James Hagerty
Hon. Fred Seaton
(Until 8:05 am)
8:10 am
Hon. Ezra Taft Benson
Hon. True D. Morse
Mr. Don Paarlberg
Mr. Fred Seaton
Mr. Gabriel Hauge
Mr. Kevin McCann
Hon. James Hagerty
(Met with the President re the Farm Bill)
(Pictures were taken on this occasion)
10:20 am
The President departed the office and went to the
practice tee,
11:15 am
Returned to the cottage.
12:40 pm
Departed the cottage and went to the practice tee.
1:01 pm
The President teed off with the following:
Major John Eisenhower
Mr. Frank Willard
Mr. Ed Dudley
4:05 pm
The President returned to the cottage.
No further activity this date.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
SUNDAY, APRIL 15, 1956
AUGUSTA, GA.
11:05 am
The President, accompanied by Mrs. Eisenhower
and Major John Eisenhower, departed the cottage
and motored to the Reid Memorial Church.
11:12 am
Arrived at the Church and attended the morning Services.
12:12 pm
Departed the Church and returned to the cottage.
12:20 pm
Arrived at the cottage.
1:20 pm
The President teed off with the following:
Major John Eisenhower
Mr. George Woodruff
Mr. Ed Dudley
4:24 pm
Completed 18 holes of golf.
4:45 pm
Returned to the cottage.
5:15 pm
The President and his party departed the Augusta
National Golf Club and motored to Bush Field.
5:50 pm
Airborne enroute to Washington, D. C.
7:35 pm
Arrived at MATS Terminal, Wa shington, and motored
to the White House.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
MONDAY, APRIL 16, 1956
9:00 am
Hon. Leo A. Hoegh, Governor of Iowa
Hon. Fred Hall, Governor of Kansas
Hon. Joe J. Foss, Governor of South Dakota
10:00 - 10:30 am
Hon. Ezra Taft Benson
11:45 am
Mr. Herschel D. Newsom
Master of the National Grange
Hon. Sherman Adams
(During the afternoon the President worked
on the speech to deliver to the Nation
on the Agriculture Bill Veto. He conferred
with various Staff Members).
4:50 pm
The President, accompanied by Dr. Milton Eisenhower,
departed the White House and motored to the
Statler Hotel.
4:55 pm
Arrived at the Statler Hotel. Here the President was
greeted by Mr. Herbert Blunck, Manager of the Hotel.
They proceeded to the 12th floor, Room 1242,
to visit Mr. Edgar Eisenhower, who was ill.
6:20 pm
Departed the Statler Hotel and returned to the
White House.
6:25 pm
Arrived at the White House.
10:00 pm
The President delivered his Farm Bill Veto Message
to the Nation, from the Broadcast Room of the
White House.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
TUESDAY, APRIL 17, 1956
8:15 am
The President arrived at the office.
8:15 - 8:25 am
Hon. James Hagerty
9:00 - 10:02 am
LEGISLATIVE LEADERS
The President
Hon. Richard T. Nixon
Senator William F. Knowland
Senator Styles Bridges
Senator Leverett Saltonstall
Congressman Joseph Martin
Congressman Charles Halleck
Congressman Leslie Arends
Congressman Leo Allen
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
Hon. James Hagerty
Hon. Gerald Morgan
Hon. Fred Seaton
Hon. I. Jack Martin
Hon. Bryce Harlow
Hon. Earle Chesney
Hon. Gabriel Hauge
Hon. Murray Snyder
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
10:07 am
Dr. Milton Eisenhower
11:10 - 11:15 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
11:15 am
The President departed the office and went to the Mansion.
12:00 Noon
LUNCH
1:07 pm
The President departed the White House to attend the
opening baseball game at Griffith Stadium. The
following were in the President's party:
Mr. Calvin Griffith
Hon. Joseph W. Martin
Hon. Leonard Hall
Colonel Gordon Moore
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
(continued)
TUESDAY, APRIL 17, 1956
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1:07 pm
The President's party at the baseball game in
Griffith's Stadium (continued):
Hon. Fred Seaton
Hon. Earle D. Chesney
Hon. Howard Pyle
General Howard McC. Snyder
Hon. I. Jack Martin
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
Hon. Gerald Morgan
Hon. Gabriel Hauge
Hon. Bryce Harlow
Hon. Maxwell Rabb
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
Hon. Murray Snyder
Hon. Homer Gruenther
Mr. William J. Barba
Mr. Edward A. McCabe
Captain Richard W. Streiff
1:11 pm
The President and his party arrived at the Griffith Stadium.
After the President was seated, he met Mr. Thurston
Morton, former Assistant Secretary of State,
who visited with the President a few minutes.
The President threw out the ball to begin the
game.
1:30 pm
The opening baseball game began.
4:10 pm
Game over. Before leaving the Stadium, the President
autographed several baseballs. The party then
motored to the White House.
4:15 pm
Arrived at the White House. The President went to the
Mansion.
5:45 pm
The President returned to the office.
7:00 pm
Departed the office and went to the Mansion.
9:15 pm
The President departed the White House and motored
to the Sheraton Park Hotel where he addressed the dinner
culminating the Republican National Conference on the
1956 Presidential and Congressional Campaigns.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 1956
8:23 am
The President arrived at the office.
8:25 8:40 am
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
8:50 9:05 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
9:05 9:18 am
Hon. James Lay, National Security Council
9:30 10:20 am
Admiral Arthur Radford
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
10:30 10:55 am
H. E. Senor Don Alberto Martin Artajo
Foreign Minister of Spain
Senora de Martin Artaja (and daughter, from 11:00 - 11:02 am)
H. E. Senor Don Jose M. de Areilza
Count of Motrico, Ambassador of Spain
Countess of Motrico
Hon. John Foster Dulles
Hon. Livingston Merchant
Hon. John Davis Lodge
American Ambassador to Spain
Mrs. John Davis Lodge
Hon. John F. Simmons
Chief of Protocol, U. S. Department of State
(The President and Mrs. Eisenhower received
the above group in the President's office).
11:05 11:35 am
Mr. J. Addington Wagner
National Commander, American Legion
Mr. Herman Luhrs
Chairman, National Legislative Commission, American
Legion
Mr. William S. Hauck
Director Washington Office, American Legion
Hon. Earle D. Chesney
Colonel Louis Johnson
(Accompanied the above group, but did not go into the
President's office until 11:25 am)
11:52 11:55 am
Mr. William J. Hopkins
12:30 pm
The President departed the office and went to the Mansion.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 1956
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1:00 pm
(LUNCH)
2:16 pm
The President returned to the office.
2:17 - 2:23 pm
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
2:45 - 2:46 pm
Mr. William J. Hopkins
2:55 - 3:20 pm
Hon. Gabriel Hauge
3:42 - 3:51 pm
Hon. Gerald Morgan
3:51 - 4:11 pm
Hon. Arthur Flemming
General Willard Paul
Hon. Fred Seaton
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
4:12 - 4:16 pm
Hon. Percival Brundage
4:20 pm
The President departed the office and went to the
South Grounds to hit golf balls, after which
he returned to the Mansion.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1956
8:33 am
The President arrived at the office.
8:35 - 8:39 am
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
8:39 - 8:44 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
8:45 - 8:56 am
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
8:58 - 9:05 am
Hon. Fred Seaton
9:05 - 9:20 am
Hon. William Jackson
9:20 - 9:44 am
Hon. Homer E. Capehart
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Wilton B. Persons (joined above two at 9:38 am)
9:44 - 9:46 am
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
9:50 - 10:04 am
Hon. James Wadsworth
Deputy U. S. Representative to the United Nations
and Deputy Representative in the Security Council
10:05 - 11:18 am
The following members of the President's Commission
on Veterans Pensions (The Bradley Commission)
met with the President:
General Omar Bradley, Chairman
Major General E. M. Brannon, Executive Director
Mr. Michael March, Technical Adviser
Hon. Sherman Adams
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
11:48 am
The President departed the office and went to the
swimming pool.
12:34 pm
Departed the swimming pool and went to the Mansion.
1:00 pm
(LUNCH)
2:12 pm
The President returned to the office.
2:12 - 2:18 pm
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1956
Page 2
2:35 - 3:17 pm
The President went to the Indian Treaty Room in the
Executive Office Building to attend a Civil
Defense Meeting. The following were present:
Hon. Sherman Adams
Mr. John Airhart, Department of Justice
Mr. Robert C. Bast, Bureau of the Budget
Commander Edward L. Beach
Mr. Lyle Belsley, FCDA
Hon. Ezra Taft Benson
General John S. Bragdon
Hon. Wilbur Brucker
Hon. Percival Brundage
Hon. Carter Burgess
Hon. Randolph Burgess
Hon. Arthur Burns
Lt. General Charles P. Cabell, CIA
Hon. Albert M. Cole, HHFA
Mr. Richard F. Cook
Hon. Victor E. Cooley, ODM
Hon. Clarence A. Davis
Mr. Raymond Davis, Department of the Interior
Hon. John Foster Dulles
Lt. General Clyde D. Eddleman
Hon. Arthur S. Flemming
Hon. Franklin G. Floete
Mr. Edward D. Frye, Department of the Interior
Vice Admiral R. F. Good
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
Hon. James C. Hagerty
Hon. Bryce N. Harlow
Maj. General Lewis B. Hershey
Hon. John B. Hollister
General Ernest V. Holmes
Hon. Herbert Hoover, Jr.
Hon. J. Edgar Hoover
Brig. General Harold Q. Huglin
Hon. George M. Humphrey
Hon. Herold C. Hunt
Hon. Arthur Larson
Hon. James S. Lay, Jr.
Miss Jean Lemmon, ODM
Hon. Willard F. Libby
Maj. General Richard C. Lindsay
Hon. I. Jack Martin
THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1956
Page 3
2:35 - 3:17 pm
Civil Defense Meeting in the Indian Treaty Room (continued):
Hon. William McChesney Martin, Federal Reserve
Maj. General Jerry V. Matejka, ODM
Hon, Arthur Minnich
Hon. Bradshaw Mintener
Hon. James P. Mitchell
Hon. J. Francis Moore
Hon. Gerald D. Morgan
Hon. True D. Morse
Hon. Frederick N. Mueller, Assistant Secretary of
Commerce
Mr. M. Carter McFarland, HHFA
Lt. General Willard S. Paul, ODM
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
Hon. Val Peterson
Hon. Thomas P. Pike, Assistant Secretary of Defense
Mr. Dean Pohlenz
Hon. Howard Pyle
Hon. Donald A. Quarles
Hon. Maxwell M. Rabb
Hon. Ralph W. E. Reid
Mr. Ralph S. Roberts
Hon. William Rogers
Mr. Raymond Saulnier, CEA
Mr. Carlton Savage
Hon. Fred A. Seaton
Mr. Roscoe C. Siciliano, Department of Labor
Mr. Francis A. Silver, ICC
Mr. Dean Snyder, HEW
Hon. Murray Snyder
Hon. Elmer Staats
Hon. Maurice Stans
Mr. David H. Stephens
Hon. Arthur E. Summerfield
Hon. Charles S. Thomas
General Nathan F. Twining
Hon. Sinclair Weeks
Hon. Charles E. Wilson
Mr. Walter Yeagley
Hon. Philip Young
Mr. W. H. Ziehl, Bureau of the Budget
THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1956
Page 4
3:17 - 3:35 pm
Hon. John Foster Dulles
Hon. Herbert Hoover, Jr.
3:38 - 3:50 pm
Mr. Maurice A. Hutcheson
President, United Brotherhood of Carpenters and
Joiners of America
Mr. M. C. Raddock
United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners
of America
Hon. James P. Mitchell
4:04 pm
The President departed the office and went to
the South Grounds to hit golf balls.
4:30 pm
Returned to the office.
6:00 pm
The President departed the office and went to the
Mansion.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1956
8:10 am
The President arrived at the office.
8:12 - 8:13 am
Mr. William J. Hopkins
8:15 - 8:19 am
Hon. Howard Pyle
8:20 - 8:28 am
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
8:30 - 8:50 am
Hon. Charles E. Bohlen
U. S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union
8:52 - 8:55 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
8:57 - 9:00 am
Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
9:00 - 11:20 am
CABINET MEETING
The President
Hon. Richard T. Nixon
Hon. John Foster Dulles
Hon. George M. Humphrey
Hon. William Randolph Burgess, Under Secretary of the
Treasury
Hon. George H. Willis, Director, Office of
International Finance
Hon. Charles E. Wilson
Hon. William P. Rogers, Deputy Attorney General
Hon. Arthur Summerfield
Hon. Clarence A. Davis, Acting Secretary of the Interior
Hon. Ezra Taft Benson
Hon. Sinclair Weeks
Hon. James P. Mitchell
Hon. Marion B. Folsom
Hon. Percival Brundage
Hon. Arthur Brundage
Hon. Philip Young
Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge
Hon. William McC. Martin, Jr., Federal Reserve Board
Hon. Meyer Kestnbaum
Hon. Albert Cole
Mr. Harold Seidman, Bureau of the Budget
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
(continued)
FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1956
Page 2
9:00 - 11:20 am
CABINET MEETING (continued)
Hon. Maxwell M. Rabb
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
Hon. Howard Pyle
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
Hon. Bradley Patterson
Hon. Gabriel Hauge
Hon. Murray Snyder
Hon. Gerald Morgan
Hon. I. Jack Martin
Hon. Arthur Minnich
11:20 - 11:50 am
Hon. John Foster Dulles
Hon. Robert R. Bowie, Assistant Secretary of State
Hon. Kevin McCann
12:15 pm
The President departed the office and went to the
swimming pool.
12:52 pm
Departed the swimming pool and went to the Mansion.
1:00 pm
(LUNCH)
2:12 pm
The President returned to the office.
2:12 - 2:20 pm
Hon. James Hagerty
2:22 - 2:42 pm
Hon. Arthur Burns
Hon. Gabriel Hauge
2:42 - 3:21 pm
(Mr. Frank Donahue, Haskin and Sells)
(Mr. Walter Ruschmeyer, Haskin and Sells)
(Colonel Robert L. Schulz)
OFF THE RECORD
3:21 - 4:34 pm
(Hon. Paul Hoffman)
OFF THE RECORD
4:45 - 5:15 pm
Hon. Kevin McCann
5:15 - 5:40 pm
The President went to the South Grounds to hit golf balls.
5:40 - 6:30 pm
The President returned to the office, departing for the
Mansion at 6:30 pm.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 1956
8:10 am
The President arrived at the office.
8:15 - 8:25 am
Hon, Sherman Adams
Hon. Gerald Morgan
8:25 - 8:30 am
Mrs. Ann Whitman
8:30 - 8:45 am
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
9:00 - 9:32 am
(Mr. Robert Montgomery)
OFF THE RECORD
(Hon. Robert Bowie, Assistant Secretary of State)
(Hon. Kevin McCann)
9:32 - 10:15 am
Hon. Ezra Taft Benson
Hon. Gerald Morgan
Hon. Gabriel Hauge
Hon. I. Jack Martin
11:08 am
The President departed the office and went to the Mansion.
1:00 pm
(LUNCH)
1:37 pm
The President departed the White House and motored to
Burning Tree Country Club.
1:58 pm
Arrived at Burning Tree.
2:16 pm
The President teed off with the following:
General Omar Bradley
Major John Eisenhower
Colonel P. A. Wyman
5:25 pm
Golf game concluded.
5:35 pm
The President departed Burning Tree and motored
to the White House.
6:00 pm
Arrived at the White House.
7:40 pm
The President and Mrs. Eisenhower departed the White
House and motored to the Statler Hotel where the
President addressed the American Society of Newspaper
Editors Annual Banquet. (Upon completion of the radio
and television address, the President addressed the
group for 15 minutes OFF THE RECORD)
SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 1956
Page 2
10:50 pm
The President and Mrs. Eisenhower departed the
Statler Hotel and motored to the White House.
10:55 pm
Arrived at the White House.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
SUNDAY, APRIL 22, 1956
NO ACTIVITY THIS DATE.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
MONDAY, APRIL 23, 1956
8:04 am
The President arrived at the office.
8:10 - 8:22 am
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
8:30 - 8:40 am
Hon. Gerald Morgan
8:40 - 9:00 am
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
9:00 - 9:30 am
Dr. Harold W. Dodds, President of Princeton University
Mr. Leonard Carmichael, Secretary of Smithsonian
Institution
Hon. Percival Brundage
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Howard Pyle
(The above group reviewed draft paper on reorganization
of existing procedures for the award of civilian national
honors by the Government).
9:40 - 9:42 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
10:15 - 10:20 am
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
Mrs. Mary Jane McCaffree
10:20 - 10:30 am
Hon. Robert Anderson
10:30 - 10:58 am
The following officers of the American Council on NATO
met with the President:
Hon. Robert Anderson, President and Chairman
Mr. Frank Pace, Jr., Second Vice President
Mr. Edward W. Barrett, immediate Past President
Mr. Ernest A. Gross, Director
Mr. Samuel W. Meek, Sr., Director and Consultant
Mr. Robert R. Gros, Director and Consultant
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
10:58 - 11:06 am
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
Colonel William Draper
11:06 - 11:11 am
Dr. Joseph W. Barker
President of American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Mr. William L. Batt,
Past President of American Society of Mechanical
Engineers
MONDAY, APRIL 23, 1956
Page 2
11:11 - 11:17 am
The President received an honorary membership
in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
The following attended the ceremonies:
Dr. Joseph W. Barker
President of American Society of Mechanical
Engineers
Mr. Frank W. Miller, Vice President, Region 3
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Mr. E. W. O'Brien, Past President of American
Society of Mechanical Engineers
Mr. William L. Batt, Past President of American
Society of Mechanical Engineers
Mr. and Mrs. David W. R. Morgan, 1955 President
of American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Lt. General Levin H. Campbell, Jr., USA (Retired)
Honorary Member of American Society of
Mechanical Engineers
Mr. Louis R. Caplan, Chairman, Washington Section
of American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Mr. C. E. Davies, Secretary of American Society
of Mechanical Engineers
Mr. Oscar Shefler, Public Relations Counsel of
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Miss Catherine Casey
Mrs. Joseph W. Barker
Mr. Thomas Marshall
Admiral Jerry Lord
Senator Ralph E. Flanders
Hon. Murray Snyder
(Ceremonies held in Conference Room)
11:22 - 11:27 am
Mr. Aksel Nielsen
11:27 am
The President departed the office and went to the swimming
pool.
12:35 pm
Departed the swimming pool and went to the Mansion.
1:00 pm
(LUNCH)
1:50 pm
The President returned to the office.
1:52 - 2:10 pm
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
2:05 - 2:07 pm
Hon. Sherman Adams
MONDAY, APRIL 23, 1956
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2:30 - 3:30 pm
Hon. Carter L. Burgess
Assistant Secretary of Defense
(Manpower, Personnel and Reserve)
Mr. Walter K. Scott
Deputy Director for Management, International
Cooperation Administration
Mr. Robert D. Francis
Office of Assistant Secretary of Defense,
Graphics and Presentation Division
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
(Met with the President on Staff Organization)
3:30 - 3:50 pm
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
Hon. James Hagerty
Colonel William Draper
3:50 - 4:11 pm
Hon. Allen Dulles
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
4:25 - 4:30 pm
Hon. James Hagerty
4:30 - 5:55 pm
The President went to the South Grounds to hit golf balls.
5:55 pm
The President returned to the office accompanied by
Mr. Aksel Nielsen.
5:55 - 6:12 pm
Hon. Sherman Adams
Colonel William Draper
6:35 pm
The President departed the office and went to the Mansion.
8:15 pm
The President departed the White House and motored to
the Gettysburg Farm. He was accompanied by:
Hon. James Hagerty
General Howard McC. Snyder
10:10 pm
Arrived at the Gettysburg Farm.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 1956
GETTYSBURG, PA.
6:50 am
The President departed the Farm and motored to the
Cumberland Township Election House. He was
accompanied by General Howard McC. Snyder.
7:00 am
Arrived at the Election House.
Here the President
was greeted by:
Mr. John H. Bashore
Adams County Republican Chairman
Mrs. A. W. Butterfield
President of Adams County Council of
Republican Women
(Hon. James Hagerty presented the above to the
President).
7:02 am
The President entered the Election House and was given
his ballot by Republican Clerk Herbert G. Raab.
Upon leaving the Election House, the President met
Mrs. John Aughenbaugh and eighteen-month-old
Michael Aughenbaugh, who presented the President
with a tie.
7:15 am
The President, accompanied by Hon. James Hagerty
and General Howard McC. Snyder, departed the
Cumberland Township Election House and motored
to the Harrisburg Airport.
8:00 am
Arrived at the Harrisburg Airport.
8:10 am
The President was airborne aboard the Columbine enroute
to Washington, D. C.
8:40 am
Arrived at MATS Terminal, Washington, D. C.
8:45 am
Departed MATS Terminal and motored to the White House.
8:52 am
Arrived at the White House. The President went directly
to his office.
8:54 am
The President arrived in his office.
TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 1956
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8:56 - 9:00 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
9:00 - 10:22 am
LEGISLATIVE LEADERS
The President
Hon. Richard T. Nixon
Senator William F. Knowland
Senator Styles Bridges
Senator Leverett Saltonstall
Senator Eugene D. Millikin
Senator Homer Capehart
Mr. James E. Bailey (accompanied Senator Capehart)
Congressman Joseph W. Martin, Jr.
Congressman Charles Halleck
Congressman Leslie Arends
Congressman Leo Allen
Hon. George M. Humphrey
Hon. Percival Brundage
Mr. Robert Merriam, Bureau of the Budget
Hon. Ezra Taft Benson
Mr. Jack Anderson, Department of Agriculture
Mr. A. Oakley Hunter, General Counsel,
Housing and Home Finance Agency
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
Hon. Gerald Morgan
Hon. I. Jack Martin
Hon. Bryce Harlow
Hon. James Hagerty
Hon. Howard Pyle
Hon. Earle Chesney
Hon. Homer Gruenther
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
Hon. Gabriel Hauge
Hon. Kevin McCann
Hon. Murray Snyder
10:24 - 10:34 am
Dr. Jose Antonio Mora, newly-elected Secretary General
of the Organization of American States
Hon. Henry F. Holland, Assistant Secretary of State
for Inter-American Affairs
10:34 - 10:40 am
Dr. Howard Mitchell of the National Symphony joined
Dr. Mora in the President's office for pictures.
TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 1956
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10:40 - 10:43 am
Congressman Donald W. Nicholson
Mr. Neston Hill, Hyannis, Massachusetts
Hon. Sherman Adams
(Mr. Hill brought a 100-pound halibut which
he gave to Governor Adams to give to the President)
10:46 - 10:58 am
Hon. Gabriel Hauge
11:03 - 11:09 am
Dr. W. F. Libby
Acting Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
11:15 - 11:45 am
Mr. John Hollister
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
11:50 am
The President departed the office and went to the
swimming pool.
12:40 pm
Departed the swimming pool and went to the Mansion.
1:00 pm
(LUNCH)
2:05 pm
The President returned to the office.
2:30 - 2:36 pm
Hon. Richard T. Nixon
2:36 - 3:28 pm
(Hon. Richard T. Nixon)
(Hon. John Foster Dulles)
(Hon. John B. Hollister)
(Hon. Herbert Hoover, Jr.)
(Hon. Percival Brundage)
(Hon. Joseph Dodge)
(Mr. William Finan)
(Hon. Wilton B. Persons)
3:52 - 5:06 pm
Hon. Arthur Summerfield
5:25 pm
The President departed the office and went to the Mansion.
5:30 pm
OFF THE RECORD Meeting at the Mansion
(Mr. Jake L. Hamon, Dallas, Texas)
(Mr. L. F. McCollum, Houston, Texas)
(Mr. R. B. Anderson, New York, N. Y.)
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 1956
8:00 am
The President arrived at the office.
8:05 - 8:15 am
Hon. Kevin McCann
8:24 - 8:34 am
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
8:34 - 8:38 am
Mr. William J. Hopkins
9:00 - 9:12 am
Hon. James Lay
Hon. Joseph Dodge
9:12 - 9:15 am
Hon. James Lay
9:24 - 10:00 am
Hon. Charles E. Wilson
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
10:00 - 10:20 am
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
Hon. James Hagerty
Hon. Gerald Morgan
Hon. Howard Pyle
Hon. I. Jack Martin
Hon. Gabriel Hauge
Hon. Murray Snyder
(Pre-Press Conference Briefing)
10:30 - 11:05 am
PRESS CONFERENCE
11:10 - 11:15 am
Hon. Herbert Brownell, Jr.
11:25 am
The President departed the office and went to the Mansion.
12:40 pm
The President, accompanied by Dr. Walter Tkach, motored
to Burning Tree Country Club.
1:15 pm
Arrived at Burning Tree Country Club,
1:30 pm
The President teed off with the following:
Congressman Charles Halleck
Mr. Floyd Akers
Colonel Thomas Belshe
4:25 pm
Completed golf game.
5:30 pm
The President, accompanied by Dr. Walter Tkach, departed
Burning Tree Country Club and motored to the
White House, arriving at 5:55 pm.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1956
8:05 am
The President arrived at the office.
8:10 - 8:23 am
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
8:29 - 8:39 am
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
8:40 - 8:48 am
Hon. Francis White, Ambassador to Mexico
(Called on the President before returning to his
post in Mexico).
9:00 - 11:10 am
NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL
The President
Hon. Richard T. Nixon
Hon. John Foster Dulles
Hon. Charles E. Wilson
Hon. Victor E. Cooley, Deputy Director, ODM
Hon. George M. Humphrey
Hon. Herbert Brownell
Hon. Sinclair Weeks
Hon. Amos Peasley (for Hon. Harold Stassen)
Hon. Percival Brundage
Hon. Theodore Streibert
Hon. John B. Hollister
Hon. Joseph Dodge, Chairman, Council on Foreign
Economic Policy
Admiral Donald B. Duncan (for Admiral Arthur Radford)
Hon. Allen Dulles
Hon. Herbert Hoover, Jr.
Hon. Reuben B. Robertson, Jr.
Hon. Robert Bowie
Hon. Gordon Bray
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
Hon. James S. Lay
Hon. S. Everett Gleason
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
11:10 - 11:50 am
Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver, The Temple, Cleveland, Ohio
Hon. John Foster Dulles
11:54 - 12:14 pm
Brig. Gen. David Sarnoff
Chairman, National Security Training Commission
Hon. Bryce N. Harlow
12:20 pm
The President departed the office and went to the Mansion.
1:00 pm
(LUNCH)
THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1956
Page 2
1:48 pm
The President returned to the office.
1:56 - 2:33 pm
(Dr. Stanley High)
OFF THE RECORD
Senior Editor, The Readers Digest
2:33 - 2:50 pm
The Director, Bureau of the Budget
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
3:02 - 3:38 pm
(Hon. Richard T. Nixon)
OFF THE RECORD
4:40 pm
The President went out on the South Grounds
to hit golf balls.
5:45 pm
Returned to the office.
5:55 pm
The President departed the office and went to the Mansion.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1956
7:50 am
The President arrived at the office.
7:55 - 8:05 am
The President made a Traffic Safety tape recording.
Hon. Murray Snyder was present.
8:19 - 8:23 am
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
8:25 - 8:39 am
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
8:48 - 8:56 am
Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
8:56 - 9:02 am
Hon. Charles E. Wilson
9:03 - 10:30 am
CABINET MEETING
The President
The Vice President
Hon. George M. Humphrey
Hon. Charles E. Wilson
Hon. Franklin G. Floete, Administrator, G.S.A.
Hon. Herbert Brownell
Hon. Perry W. Morton, Assistant Attorney General
Hon. Arthur Summerfield
Hon. Clarence A. Davis
Hon. Ezra Taft Benson
Hon. James P. Mitchell
Hon. Sinclair Weeks
Hon. Marion B. Folsom
Hon. Percival Brundage
Hon. A. R. Jones, Deputy Director
Bureau of the Budget
Hon. Philip Young
Hon. Victor E. Cooley, Deputy Director, ODM
Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
Hon. Harvey Higley, Veterans Administration
Hon. Maxwell Rabb
Hon. Bryce Harlow
Hon. Murray Snyder
Hon. Gerald Morgan
Hon. I. Jack Martin
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
Hon. Bradley Patterson
Hon. Arthur Minnich
FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1956
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10:30 - 10:40 am
Hon. Marion B. Folsom
10:40 - 10:49 am
Hon. James Lay
10:49 - 10:55 am
Hon. Gerald Morgan
10:55 - 11:00 am
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
11:00 - 11:18 am
Mr. Milton Katz
Associate Director of the Ford Foundation
11:15 - 11:27 am
The following members of the Committee on Education
Beyond the High School met with the President,
first in his office and then proceeded to the Rose
Garden for pictures:
Mr. Devereux C. Josephs
President, New York Life Insurance Company
Mr. David D. Henry
President, University of Illinois
Lawrence L. Bethel
President, Fashion Institute of Technology
Horace M. Bond
President, Lincoln University
Sydney P. Brown, Attorney at Law, Chicago, I11.
Harold C. Case
President, Boston University
Mrs. Norman Chandler
Regent of the University of California
Catherine B. Cleary, Vice President,
First Wisconsin Trust Company
John D. Connors
Director, AFL-CIO Department of Education
Paul L. Essert
Professor of Education, Columbia University
James P. Hart, Lawyer, Austin, Texas
Leo A. Hoegh, Governor of Iowa
Frederick L. Hovde
President, Purdue University
Robert R. Hudelson, Retired Professor, Illinois
Rees H. Hughes
President, Kansas State Teachers College
Seymour H. Knox, Chairman of the Board,
Marine Midland Trust Co., of Western, N. Y.
Roy E. Larsen
President, Time, Inc.
Hon. Marion B. Folsom
Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare
FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1956
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11:15 - 11:27 am
Committee on Education Beyond the High School (continued):
Katherine E. McBride
President, Bryn Mawr College
James McKinney
Chairman of the Board, American School
San Mateo, California
Kenneth E. Oberholtzer
Superintendent of Public Schools, Denver, Colorado
Paul C. Reinert, S. J.
President, Saint Louis University
Edgar W. Smith
Retired Businessman, Portland, Oregon
Anna L. Strauss
Trustee of Connecticut College
John Hay Whitney
Senior Partner, John H. Whitney & Company
Theodore Otte Yntema
Vice President, Ford Motor Company
Herold C. Hunt
Under Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare
S. M. Brownell
U. S. Commissioner of Education
Homer D. Babbidge, Jr.
Assistant to the Commissioner of Education
John J. Corson
Partner, McKinsey & Company, Washington, D. C.
11:30 am
The President departed the office and went to the
Mansion.
12:15 pm
The President, accompanied by Dr. Walter Tkach,
departed the White House and motored to the
Gettysburg Farm.
2:15 pm
Arrived at the Gettysburg Farm.
FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1956
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GETTYSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA
2:25 pm
The President, accompanied by Dr. Walter Tkach,
departed the Farm and motored to Little
Creek Hunting Lodge, Thurmont, Maryland,
Mr. Floyd Akers' Estate.
3:00 pm
Arrived at Little Hunting Creek Lodge. At this
location, the President did some fishing,
assisted by Mr. Charles Tessler, caretaker
of
the
Lodge. The President caught 24 fish.
5:05 pm
The President, accompanied by Dr. Walter Tkach,
departed the Little Hunting Creek Lodge and
motored back to the Farm.
5:33 pm
Arrived at the Farm.
At 5:14 pm, General and Mrs. Benjamin F. Caffey
arrived at the Farm.
At 6:33 pm, General and Mrs. Arthur Nevins
arrived at the Farm.
At 7:00 pm, Mrs. George Allen arrived at the Farm.
No further activity this date.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 1956
GETTYSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA
9:00 am
The following members of the National Red Cherry Institute,
accompanied by General Arthur Nevins, came to the
Farm and presented the President with a plaque and
a cherry tree:
Mr. Ben F. Batcheler
Mr. Luther Jennejahn
Mr. William B. Tower
Mr. William B. Powell
Mr. David L. Howlett
(Pictures were made during the presentation
by White House photographer Charles Courte,
then the cherry tree was planted).
9:31 am
The President departed the Farm and motored to the
Gettysburg Country Club.
9:36 am
Arrived at the Gettysburg Country Club.
The President
played golf with the following:
General Arthur Nevins
Mr. George Allen
12:20 pm
Departed the Gettysburg Country Club and motored to
the Farm.
12:27 pm
Arrived at the Farm.
2:30 pm
The President made a tour of the Farm, accompanied by
General Benjamin F. Caffey
General Arthur Nevins
Mr. George Allen
4:35 pm
Returned to the house.
At 11:16 pm, General and Mrs. Nevins and
Mr. and Mrs. George Allen departed the Farm.
No further activity this date.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
SUNDAY, APRIL 29, 1956
GETTYSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA
10:32 am
The President and Mrs. Eisenhower departed the Farm
and motored to the Presbyterian Church in
Gettysburg.
10:40 am
Arrived at the Church. Mr. Victor R. Campbell,
the host usher, escorted the President and
Mrs. Eisenhower to the Presidential Pew.
11:45 am
At the conclusion of the Services, the Reverend
Clyde Brown escorted the President and Mrs.
Eisenhower to the entrance of the Church.
Here photographs were taken.
11:48 am
Departed the Church and motored to the Farm:
11:56 am
Arrived at the Farm.
At 11:10 am, Mrs. George Allen arrived at the Farm.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
MONDAY, APRIL 30, 1956
8:55 am
The President departed the Gettysburg Farm and
motored to Washington, D. C.
10:55 am
Arrived at the White House and proceeded to his office.
11:00 - 11:06 am
Hon. James Hagerty
11:06 - 11:13 am
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
11:13 - 11:15 am
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
11:20 - 11:25 am
Major General Silas B. Hayes, Surgeon General, Army
Rear Admiral B. W. Hogan, Surgeon General, Navy
Dr. Leonard Scheele
Dr. Frank B. Berry, Assistant Secretary of Defense
Brig. General Olin F. McIlnay, Director of Plans and
Hospitalization, U. S. Air Force
Dr. Howard McC. Snyder
(The above group witnessed the President's signing
of HR 9428).
11:25 - 11:30 am
Hon. Gerald Morgan
11:30 - 11:40 am
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
Hon. Kevin McCann
12:07 pm
The President departed the office and went to the Mansion.
1:55 pm
The President returned to the office.
1:57 - 1:59 pm
Hon. Gerald Morgan
2:00 - 2:40 pm
Hon. John Foster Dulles
Hon. Herbert Brownell, Jr.
Hon. James P. Mitchell
Hon. Herman Phleger
Hon. Gerald Morgan
2:40 - 3:08 pm
Hon. John Foster Dulles
Hon. Herbert Brownell, Jr.
Hon, Herman Phleger
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
Hon. Gerald Morgan
Hon. Fred Seaton
MONDAY, APRIL 30, 1956
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3:08 - 3:28 pm
Hon. Herbert Brownell, Jr.
3:30 - 3:45 pm
H. E. Heinz L. Krekeler
Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany
in Washington
(Ambassador Krekeler, at the suggestion of
President Heuss of Germany, presented the
President with a book recently published in
Germany concerning the Eisenhower German
ancestors and relatives).
3:45 - 3:58 pm
The Honorable Silviu Brucan
Newly appointed Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary of the Rumanian
People's Republic in Washington, who
came to present his credentials to the
President.
4:04 pm
The President went to the South Grounds to hit golf balls.
4:55 pm
Departed the South Grounds and went to the Mansion.
5:30 pm
The following met with the President at the Mansion:
Hon, John Foster Dulles
Senator Walter F. George
Senator H. Alexander Smith
Congressman James P. Richards
Congressman Robert B. Chiperfield
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
TUESDAY, MAY 1, 1956
8:15 am
The President arrived in the office.
8:17 - 8:19 am
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
8:19 - 8:23 am
Mr. William J. Hopkins
8:23 - 8:28 am
Mrs. Ann Whitman
8:28 - 8:34 am
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
8:34 - 8:44 am
Mrs. Ann Whitman
8:44 - 8:46 am
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
8:52 - 8:56 am
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
9:00 - 10:40 am
LEGISLATIVE LEADERS
The President
Hon. Richard T. Nixon
Senator William F. Knowland
Senator Styles Bridges
Senator Leverett Saltonstall
Congressman Charles Halleck
Congressman Leslie Arends
Congressman Leo Allen
Hon. Ezra Taft Benson
Dr. Don Paarlberg
Mr. Jack Anderson
Hon. John Foster Dulles
Hon. Percival Brundage
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
Hon. I. Jack Martin
Hon. Fred Seaton
Hon. Homer Gruenther
Hon. Bernard Shanley
Hon. Gerald Morgan
Hon. Bryce Harlow
Hon. Gabriel Hauge
Hon. James Hagerty
Hon. Murray Snyder
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
Hon. Herbert Brownell
TUESDAY, MAY 1, 1956
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11:00 - 11:37 am
Hon. John Foster Dulles
Hon. James Hagerty (departed at 11:07 am)
11:40 - 11:52 am
Hon. Leonard Hall
12:00 pm
The President departed the office and went to the Mansion.
1:00 pm
(LUNCH)
1:16 pm
The President, accompanied by Dr. Howard McC. Snyder
and Mr. George Allen, departed the White House
and motored to Burning Tree Country Club.
1:40 pm
Arrived at Burning Tree Country Club.
2:10 pm
The President teed off with the following:
Mr. George Allen
Colonel Thomas Belshe
4:44 pm
Completed 18 holes of golf.
5:30 pm
The President, accompanied by Dr. Howard McC. Snyder
and Mr. George Allen, departed Burning Tree and
motored to the White House.
5:54 pm
The President returned to the White House.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 1956
8:05 am
The President arrived at the office.
8:14 - 8:18 am
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
8:20 - 8:26 am
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
Hon. James Hagerty
8:32 - 8:43 am
Hon. Arthur Burns
Hon. Kevin McCann
9:00 - 9:23 am
H. E. Joao Belchoir Goulart
The Vice President of Brazil
Hon. Herbert Hoover, Jr.
Hon. Henry Holland
H. E. Joao Carlos Muniz, Brazilian Ambassador
Hon. John Simmons
Hon. Joao Lima Teixeira
Senator from the State of Bahia
Hon. Roberto Silveira
Lt. Governor of the State of Rio de Janeiro
Joao Pinheiro
Economic Officer, National Economic Development
Brazilian Foreign Office
Senhor Geraldo Nascimento e Silva, Interpreter
Mr. Alexander DeSeabra, State Department Interpreter
9:23 - 9:33 am
Hon. Herbert Hoover, Jr.
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
9:33 - 9:36 am
Hon. Gerald Morgan
9:40 am
The President departed the office and went
to the Mansion.
9:50 am
Re turned to the office.
10:00 - 10:15 am
Mr. Cola Parker
President, National Association of Manufacturers
Hon. Sherman Adams
WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 1956
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10:28 - 10:42 am
Lord Mayor of London Cuthbert Akroyd
and Mrs. Akroyd
Alderman and Sheriff of London, Whaley-Cohen
The Honorable Mrs. Whaley-Cohen
Mr. W. T. Boston, Sword Bearer and First Esquire
Chief Commoner, C. F. Glenny
The Honorable Robert E. McLaughlin
President, D. C. Board of Commissioners
10:52 am
The President departed the office and motored to the
Foundry Methodist Church to attend the memorial
services for Senator Alben Barkeley. Those who
accompanied the President were:
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
Hon. Gerald Morgan
Hon. Bryce Harlow
Hon. James Hagerty
Hon. Fred Seaton
Hon. I. Jack Martin
Hon. Homer Gruenther
Hon. Earle D. Chesney
11:29 am
The President returned to the office.
11:32 - 11:50 am
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
11:53 - 12:00 noon
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
12:25 pm
The President departed the office and went to the Mansion.
12:30 - 12:40 pm
Hon. Fred Seaton
(Saw the President at the Mansion).
1:00 pm
(LUNCH)
1:55 pm
The President returned to the office.
2:35 - 3:07 pm
Mr. Eugene R. Black
President of the World Bank
3:10 - 3:34 pm
Hon. Homer Ferguson
(Recently appointed Judge, Court of Military Appeals).
WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 1956
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3:34 - 4:05 pm
Mr. L. M. Pexton
4:06 - 4:35 pm
Mr. William Randolph Hearst
Hon. James Hagerty
4:35 - 4:42 pm
Hon. Sherman Adams
5:00 - 5:15 pm
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
5:40 pm
The President departed the office and
went to the Mansion.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
THURSDAY, MAY 3, 1956
8:00 am
The President arrived at the office.
8:20 - 8:50 am
Hon. Arthur Burns
Hon. Gabriel Hauge
8:51 - 9:00 am
Hon. Ed. J. Johnson, Governor of Colorado
Hon. William Nicholson, Mayor of Denver, Colorado
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
Hon. Murray Snyder
(The President received the No. 1 Fishing License
for Colorado).
(Pictures were taken on this occasion).
9:00 - 11:34 am
NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL
The President
Hon. Richard T. Nixon
Hon. Herbert Hoover, Jr.
Hon. Charles E. Wilson
Hon. Arthur S. Flemming
Hon. George M. Humphrey
Hon. Herbert Brownell, Jr.
Hon. Amos J. Peaslee
Hon. Percival Brundage
Hon. Lewis L. Strauss
Hon. Alan T. Waterman
Hon. Nathan F. Twining
Hon. Reuben Robertson
Mr. Samuel Clements, Department of Defense
Hon. Arthur W. Radford
Hon. Allen Dulles
Hon. William M. Holaday
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research
and Development
Mr. Frank Wisner
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
Hon. Dillon Anderson
Hon. William H. Jackson
Hon. James S. Lay
Hon. S. Everett Gleason
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
THURSDAY, MAY 3, 1956
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11:34 - 11:46
General W. Anders, C. B.
Captain Eugene Lubelirski
(General Anders asked for an appointment to
pay his respects).
11:46 - 12:08 pm
Hon. Herbert Brownell
Hon. Sherman Adams
12:08 - 12:10 pm
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
12:10 - 12:27 pm
Mr. Ward M. Canaday
12:35 pm
The President departed the office and went to the
Mansion.
1:00 pm
(LUNCH)
1:35 pm
The President departed the White House and motored
to Burning Tree Country Club.
1:55 pm
Arrived at Burning Tree Country Club.
2:15 pm
The President teed off with Colonel Thomas Belshe.
On the 9th hole, they were joined by
Mr. A. F. (Bud) Kroeger.
(Mr. Kroeger is a close friend of Congressman
Leslie Arends)
4:40 pm
Golf game completed.
5:30 pm
The President departed the Burning Tree Country Club
and motored to the White House.
5:55 pm
Arrived at the White House and went to his office.
5:58 - 6:02 pm
Hon. Gerald Morgan
6:0.5 pm
The President departed the office and went to the Mansion.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
FRIDAY, MAY 4, 1956
8:10 am
The President arrived at the office.
8:14 - 8:20 am
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
8:20 - 8:28 am
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
8:32 - 8:37 am
Hon. Lewis L. Strauss
8:44 - 8:47 am
Hon. Gabriel Hauge
8:47 - 9:05 am
The President saw the following Public Advisers to the
Tariff Negotiations at Geneva:
Mr. Elliott V. Bell
Editor and Publisher of Business Week and
Chairman, Executive Committee
Mr. Homer L. Brinkley
Executive Vice President, National Council of
Farmer Cooperatives, Los Angeles
Mr. Bryant Essick
President, Essick Manufacturing Company
Los Angeles, California
Mr. Stanley N. Ruttenberg
Director of Research, AFL-CIO, Washington, D. C.
Hon. Gabriel Hauge accompanied the above group.
9:06 - 9:14 am
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
9:14 - 9:22 am
Hon. Gabriel Hauge
Mr. Romer McPhee
9:27 - 9:59 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. James Hagerty
Hon. Gerald Morgan
Hon. Herbert Hoover, Jr.
Hon. Fred Seaton
Hon. Gabriel Hauge
Hon. Howard Pyle
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
Hon. Murray Snyder
Hon. I. Jack Martin
10:00 - 10:30 am
PRESS CONFERENCE
10:35 am
The President returned to the office.
FRIDAY, MAY 4, 1956
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10:35 - 10:40 am
Mr. Merlo Pusey
Hon. James Hagerty
Hon. Murray Snyder
10:40 - 11:10 am
Mr. Ernest T. Weir
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
11:10 - 11:16 am
Mr. Ancher Nelson
Miss Miriam Nelson (daughter)
Hon. Sherman Adams
11:16 - 11:35 am
Hon. Lewis W. Douglas
11:35 - 11:40 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Gerald Morgan
11:40 - 11:47 am
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
12:00 Noon
The President departed the office and went to the Mansion.
1:00 pm
(LUNCH)
1:38 pm
The President departed the White House and motored to
the Gettysburg Farm.
3:31 pm
Arrived at the Gettysburg Farm.
(Note: David and Barbara Ann Eisenhower
accompanied the President on the ride to the
Gettysburg Farm.)
3:50 pm
The President walked to the putting green from the
House and practiced chip shots until 4:25 pm.
6:05 pm
The President, the First Lady, and David and Barbara
Ann Eisenhower took a walk around the Main House
returning at 8:10 pm.
No further activity this date.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
SATURDAY, MAY 5, 1956
GETTYSBURG, PA,
9:30 am
The President, accompanied by Mr. George Allen
and General Arthur Nevins, departed the Farm and
motored to the Gettysburg Country Club.
9:38 am
Arrived at the Gettysburg Country Club.
9:40 am
The President played 18 holes of golf with the following:
Mr. George Allen
General Arthur Nevins
Upon conclusion of the game, photographs were
taken of the President watching David hit a few golf balls.
12:27 pm
Departed the Gettysburg Country Club and motored to the
Farm.
2:05 pm
The President, accompanied by Mr. George Allen and
General Howard Snyder, motored to Little Hunting
Creek Lodge, the estate of Mr. Floyd Akers, in
Thurmont, Maryland.
2:40 pm
Arrived at the Lodge. Here the President fished for trout
in the stream. He caught 10 fish,
4:40 pm
Departed Little Hunting Creek Lodge and motored to the
Gettysburg Farm.
5:14 pm
Arrived at the Farm.
6:05 pm
The President walked to the duck pond and fished until
7:16 pm. He caught 7 fish.
7:16 pm
Departed the duck pond and returned to the Main House.
No further activity this date.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
SUNDAY, MAY 6, 1956
GETTYSBURG, PA.
10:20 am
The President and Mrs. Eisenhower departed the
Farm and motored to the Christ Chapel at Gettysburg
College.
10:30 am
Arrived at the Gettysburg College Christ Chapel. Here
they were greeted by Mr. Frederick S. Weiser,
Chairman of the Mother's Day Committee and
Acting Chief Usher, who escorted them to their
seats.
(Photographs were taken upon arrival at the Chapel)
11:30 am
Services completed, the President and Mrs. Eisenhower
were escorted to their limousine by
Dr. Henry W. A. Hanson
President Emeritus and officiating Minister
Reverend Edwerth E. Korte, Chaplain
(Photographs were again taken).
11:40 am
The President and Mrs. Eisenhower departed the Chapel
and motored to the Farm.
11:55 am
Arrived at the Farm.
2:15 pm
The President made a tour of the Farm and inspected the
cattle. He was accompanied by:
Mr. Herman Purdy of Pennsylvania State College
Mr. George Allen
Dr. Howard McC. Snyder
General Arthur Nevins
Mr. Irving Feaster
3:30 pm
The above group departed the Farm and motored to
the farm of Mr. George Allen.
3:50 pm
Returned to the Farm.
No further activity this date.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
MONDAY, MAY 7, 1956
GETTYSBURG, PA.
11:30 am
The President and General Arthur Nevins walked
around the yard of the Farm house.
11:54 am
General and Mrs. Howard McC. Snyder visited at the
Farm until 12:40 pm.
1:20 pm
Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Berkey
(Mr. Berkey is with Tompkins Construction Company.
They departed the Farm at 2:15 pm).
2:30 pm
The President and Mrs. Eisenhower departed the Farm
and motored to the White House.
WASHINGTON, D. C.
4:36 pm
Arrived at the White House.
The President returned
to the office.
4:40 - 4:49 pm
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
4:49 - 5:23 pm
Hon. John Foster Dulles
Hon. Herbert Hoover, Jr.
5:23 - 5:25 pm
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. James Hagerty
5:50 - 6:14 pm
Hon. Allen Dulles
Dr. Herbert Scoville
Assistant Director, Office of Scientific Intelligence, CIA
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
6:19 - 6:55 pm
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
7:15 pm
The President departed the office and went to the Mansion.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
TUESDAY, MAY 8, 1956
8:02 am
The President arrived at the office.
8:18 - 8:20 am
Hon. James Hagerty
8:25 - 8:28 am
Mr. William J. Hopkins
8:35 - 8:45 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Gerald Morgan
Hon. Bryce Harlow
Hon. I. Jack Martin
9:00 - 10:38 am
LEGISLATIVE LEADERS
The President
Hon. Richard T. Nixon
Hon. William F. Knowland
Hon. Leverett Saltonstall
Hon. Styles Bridges
Hon. Frank Carlson
Hon. Joseph W. Martin
Hon. Leslie Arends
Hon. Edward H. Rees
Hon. Percival Brundage
Hon. Philip Young
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Gerald Morgan
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
Hon. James Hagerty
Hon. Bryce Harlow
Hon. Fred Seaton
Hon. Howard Pyle
Hon. Murray Snyder
Hon. Earle Chesney
Hon. Homer Gruenther
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
10:38 - 10:52 am
Hon. James Hagerty
10:55 - 11:03 am
Hon. Lowell C. Pinkerton
(Called on the President prior to his departure for
Khartoum, where he will serve as our first Ambassador
to the Sudan).
TUESDAY, MAY 8, 1956
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11:03 - 11:08 am
Hon. Dillon Anderson
11:08 - 11:17 am
Hon. Ezra Taft Benson
11:17 - 11:42 am
Hon. Robert Cutler
Hon. Dillon Anderson
11:47 - 12:00 Noon
Hon. Harold Stassen
12:18 pm
The President returned to the Mansion.
1:00 pm
(LUNCH)
2:00 pm
The President returned to the office.
2:15 - 2:25 pm
Lt. General Willard S. Paul
Assistant Director of ODM for Plans and Readiness
2:27 - 3:04 pm
Hon. Arthur Summerfield
3:05 - 3:12 pm
Hon. Edward B. Lawson
U. S. Ambassador to Israel, now in the United States
for consultation.
3:15 - 3:37 pm
Hon. James Hagerty
3:39 - 5:11 pm
The President went to the South Grounds to hit golf balls.
5:11 pm
The President returned to the office.
5:36 pm
The President went to the Mansion,
6:00 pm
(HON. Paul Hoffman)
OFF THE RECORD
(Saw the President at the Mansion)
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, 1956
8:00 am
The President arrived at the office.
8:05 - 8:15 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
8:18 - 8:22 am
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
8:25 - 8:35 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. James Hagerty
8:37 - 8:55 am
Hon. George Wadsworth
(Ambassador Wadsworth is here on consultation
from his post as Ambassador to Saudi Arabia).
9:00 - 9:08 am
The President greeted the following members of the
Military Chaplains National Association on the
lawn outside his office:
Abbott, Harry P.
Brundick, William T.
Adams, Charles V.
Cahill, R. P.
Adams, Francis P.
Cahill, Richard
Adams, W. B.
Cain, Elmer J.
Allen, Ray
Carlson, Alvin O.
Ames, Kenneth L.
Carpenter, Alfred
Armstrong, Ernest
Cashman, E. J.
Babbitt, Deane
Caughey, Frank M.
Baker, James
Clark, David N.
Bates, Ralph
Clarkson, Thomas
Beal, Frank P.
Claypool, James V.
Bedingfield, Warren
Cobb, Goodwin K.
Bennett, Ivan L.
Cowles, Sidney
Bennett, S. B.
Creeger, Marion J.
Bergen, Willis
Cronin, P. L.
Bergherm, W. H.
Crosselt, Joseph
Bertrand, A. F.
Crumpton, Sidney
Black, Frank C.
Dana, Joe
Blunk, James B.
Darkey, K. L.
Boeding, A. A.
Darlington, Gilbert
Bowman, J. J.
Decker, Silas
Boyer, Arthur C.
Dennis, Arthur
Bradley, Alford
Detwiler, Garrett
Brasted, Alva J.
Dillon, Allen
Brennerman, M. E.
Donnelly, A. P.
Brown, Chalres E., Jr.
Drew, Monroe
WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, 1956
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9:00 - 9:08 am Military Chaplains National Association (continued)
Drinan, Raymond
Hoyle, Enoch
Duggan, John P.
Hunter, Wayne
Dyer, H. S.
Imbrey, Hugh
Edwards, Norman O.
Ingvoldstad, O.
Ellington, Richard
Johnson, Winfield
Elliott, Calvin H.
Jones, Francis M.
Ellis, C. V.
Jones, Oliver
Elmore, Harold
Jones, Robert Q.
Elson, Edward
Jorgensen, Delbert
Emery, William
Kasel, Joseph T.
Evans, F. A.
Kennedy, Douglas
Fahl, James C.
Kleinberg, Maurice
Eves, Arthur
Kline, Theodore
Fay, Patrick
Kraabel, Alf M.
Field, Warren B.
Lampson, Mert
Fisher, J. A. S.
Lazaron, Marris S.
Garman, W. H. O.
Lenk, LaSalle
Gatlin, H. Grady
Lovin, Charles W.
Gillenwaters, H. L.
Lowry, Charles W.
Gilmer, Max
McAlpine, Donald Scott
Glaize, Charles
McCarrol, Joseph
Golder, William
McCarty, Robert
Goodyear, A. S.
McCary, Earl
Gould, John D.
McClocken, K. H.
Graham, R. H.
McCrory, Walter E.
Guild, M. A.
McDonough, Edward
Hale, Wallace M.
McKenzie, Miles R.
Hardy, Ralph R.
McKnight, Harry
Harley, James C.
McLaughlin, John R.
Hark, E. B.
McNulty, J.
Harrell, Leighton
McQuaid, A. F.
Hayman, Victor
Machemer, Paul
Heather, Fred
Marken, Roy
Hendrix, Ralph
Marken, R. R.
Henderson, Benjamin
Marsten, Henry F.
Hitchens, O. B.
Mast, Jacob
Hickman, J. D.
Mattiello, L. C.
Holt, Maurice
Maxwell, H. F.
Honeywell, Roy J.
Mayer, William
Hoover, Paul R.
Meachum, L. W.
Hopkins, Ralph W.
Midboe, E. O.
Howland, Barker C.
Miller, Lewis H.
Mize, Edward M.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, 1956
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9:00 - 9:08 am
Military Chaplains National Association (continued):
Moran, William
Smith, James R.
Morrison, Robert N.
Snape, Harold
Naughton, Gabriel
Southard, Harry D.
Nelson, E. H.
Stafford, G. J.
O'Connor, J. J.
Stanton, R. B.
Odell, R. W.
Summey, Thomas A., Jr.
O'Gorman, George
Sundloff, Fred
Olds, Corwin H.
Sustakoski, H. J.
O'Neill, James R.
Taulor, Horace
Osberg, John
Thompson, Leslie
Parce, Arthur M.
Tinter, B. A.
Patterson, F. F.
Titus, C. E.
Plumb, Robert J.
Tobey, Frank
Pond, Clifton R.
Vinson, W. H.
Powel, Robert J.
Vogevoll, Wilbur
Ponsiglione, A. A.
Wackerbarth, B. E.
Price, Ben
Wallace, Adam W.
Radcliffe, R. W.
Walsh, William J.
Renz, F. J.
Weed, Earl D.
Reynolds, Frederick C.
Weed, Lyle
Riddle, Ray
Weedon, Herschel
Rixey, George F.
Whipple, Ivan
Rogers, Howard
Wickman, Irving
Rosso, George A.
Widman, John A.
Salisbury, S. W.
Williams, William P.
Sandhaus, Morris
Wilson, Frank R.
Schmidt, Robert J.
Winkler, F. A.
Schreiber, R. A.
Winslow, Paul E.
Scholl, R. T.
Wise, Francis
Scott, David C.
Wood, Harry C.
Scott, R. S.
Zimmerman, J. D.
Scott, William R.
Sell, Ralph W.
The above group was accompanied
Sessions, Hal R., Jr.
by Hon. Charles S. Thomas,
Shape, W. Harold
Secretary of the Navy and
Shapiro, Alexander
Rear Admiral Edward Blaine
Sheehy, Maurice S.
Harp, Jr., Chief of Navy
Sherry, Robert J.
Chaplains.
Shilling, John H.
Shilling, Russell
Shoemaker, A. M.
Smith, Charles M.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, 1956
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9:27 - 10:21 am
Hon. John Foster Dulles
Hon. Robert C. Hill, Assistant Secretary of State
for Congressional Relations
10:17 - 10:21 am
Hon. Sherman Adams joined the above.
10:29 - 10:58 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. James Hagerty
Hon. Gerald Morgan
Hon. Gabriel Hauge
Hon. Fred Seaton
Hon. Bryce Harlow
Hon. I. Jack Martin
Hon. Murray Snyder
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
11:00 - 11:30 am
PRESS CONFERENCE
11:35 - 12:00 Noon
Mr. Spyros Skouras
President, Twentieth-Century Fox Films
12:00 - 12:02 pm
Hon. Sherman Adams
12:02 pm
The President departed the office and went to the
Mansion.
12:06 - 12:12 pm
Hon. Gerald Morgan
(Took Bills to the Mansion for the President's
signature).
1:00 pm
(LUNCH)
1:20 pm
The President departed the White House and
motored to Burning Tree Country Club.
1:40 pm
Arrived at Burning Tree Country Club. The President
played 18 holes of golf with the following:
Congressman Leslie Arends
Congressman Charles Halleck
Colonel Thomas Belshe
5:14 pm
The President departed Burning Tree and motored to the
White House.
5:37 pm
Arrived at the White House.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, 1956
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5:00 pm
(Mr. Claude Maer and Family) OFF THE RECORD
(At the Mansion)
5:37 pm
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
(Saw the President at the Mansion)
7:00 pm
General and Mrs. Clyde Beck
(Mrs. Eisenhower arranged dinner. The
Becks are old friends from Memphis, Tennessee).
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1956
8:11 am
The President arrived at the office, accompanied by
Colonel Robert L. Schulz.
8:14 - 8:16 am
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
8:17 - 8:27 am
Hon. James P. Mitchell
8:28 - 8:54 am
Mr. Richard Gray, President, Building and Construction
Trades Department, AFL-CIO
Hon. James P. Mitchell
8:55 - 9:02 am
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
9:02 - 9:15 am
Dr. Alan T. Waterman, Director, National Science
Foundation
Hon. Percival Brundage
Hon. Arthur Minnich
(Met with the President re coordination of basic
scientific research)
9:15 - 9:17 am
Mr. William J. Hopkins
9:26 - 9:30 am
Hon. Gerald Morgan
9:30 - 11:15 am
NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL
(284th Meeting)
The President
Hon. Richard T. Nixon
Hon. John Foster Dulles
Hon. Charles E. Wilson
Hon. Arthur S. Flemming
Hon. George M. Humphrey
Hon. Herbert Brownell, Jr.
Hon. Harold E. Stassen
Hon. Percival Brundage
Hon. Lewis L. Strauss
Hon. John R. Hollister
Hon. Theodore S. Streibert
Hon. Arthur W. Radford
Hon. Allen Dulles
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Dillon Anderson
Hon. William H. Jackson
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
Hon. James S. Lay
Hon. S. Everett Gleason
THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1956
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11:15 - 11:35 am
Hon. Charles E. Wilson
11:35 - 11:48 am
The St. Lawrence Seaway group presented the President
a Medallion commemorating the second anniversary
of the enactment and signing of the St. Lawrence
Seaway Act. Those who attended the ceremony were:
Hon. Wilbur M. Brucker, Secretary of the Army
Hon. Livingston T. Merchant
Ambassador-designate to Canada
Hon. Alexander Wiley
Hon. George Dondero
Hon. Lewis G. Castle
Administrator, St. Lawrence Seaway
Development Corporation
Hon. M. W. Oettershagen
Deputy Administrator, St. Lawrence
Seaway Development Corporation
Advisory Board Members of St. Lawrence Seaway
Development Corporation:
John C. Beukema, North Muskegon, Michigan
Harry C. Brockel, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Kenneth M. Lloyd, Youngstown, Ohio
Hugh Moore, Easton, Pennsylvania
Edward J. Noble, Alexandria, New York
11:48 - 11:58 am
Hon. Alexander Wiley
11:58 - 12:15 pm
Hon. Sherman Adams
12:18 pm
The President departed the office and went to
the swimming pool.
12:30 pm
Departed the swimming pool and went to the
Mansion.
1:00 pm
(LUNCH)
1:50 pm
The President returned to the office.
1:55 pm
The President posed for pictures in his office,
taken by Abbie Rowe, White House photographer.
THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1956
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2:11 - 2:15 pm
Hon. Bryce Harlow
2:15 - 2:22 pm
Hon. Gerald Morgan
2:22 - 2:30 pm
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
2:30 - 3:24 pm
(Hon. John M. Vorys, Ohio)
(Hon. Bryce Harlow)
OFF THE RECORD
3:24 - 3:34 pm
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
3:58 pm
The President went to the South Grounds to hit golf balls.
4:41 pm
Returned to the office.
4:43 - 4:45 pm
Hon. Gerald Morgan
4:50 pm
The President departed the office and went to the Mansion.
5:32 pm
The President, accompanied by Hon. James Hagerty,
departed the White House and motored to Walter
Reed Hospital.
5:55 pm
Arrived at Walter Reed. Here the President was greeted
by Major General Leonard Heaton, who escorted the
President to Ward #8, the Presidential Suite.
(During the next two days, the President underwent
a complete "head-to-toe" examination).
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
FRIDAY, MAY 11, 1956
WALTER REED HOSPITAL
During the day, the President underwent various
examinations and laboratory tests at the Hospital.
3:28 pm
The President departed his Suite and walked to the
Childrens' Wards Nos. 16 and 17, and greeted
the children there. Upon arrival at the Ward
he was greeted by:
Major Frank Miller
Captain R. H. Wiggins
Captain Ann Fred
Captain Alliene Ehalt
3:50 pm
The President went to Room #5, Ward 8, and visited with
Major General Frank S. Cochieu, Retired.
4:00 pm
The President went to Room #3 and visited with
Lt. General Carter B. Magruder
Deputy Chief of Staff, Logistics Department
4:05 pm
The President went to Room #2 and visited with
General Carlos Romulo of the Philippines.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
SATURDAY, MAY 12, 1956
11:53 am
The President departed Walter Reed Hospital upon
completion of his physical examination. As
he was leaving he shook hands with two small girls:
Dorothy and Sandra Pollock
The President motored to Burning Tree Country Club.
12:17 pm
Arrived at Burning Tree Country Club.
12:27 pm
The President teed off with the following:
Congressman Charles Halleck
Mr. John McClure
Colonel Thomas Belshe
(From 1:58 until 2:30 pm, the golfing party returned
to the Clubhouse due to heavy rains).
2:30 pm
Golf game resumed.
4:05 pm
Eighteen holes of golf completed.
4:20 pm
The President departed the Burning Tree Country Club
and motored to the White House.
6:35 pm
The President departed the White House and motored to
the Statler Hotel to attend the Gridiron Club Dinner.
11:40 pm
Departed the Statler Hotel and motored to the White House.
11:43 pm
Arrived at the White House.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
SUNDAY, MAY 13, 1956
GETTYSBURG, PA.
8:15 am
The President, accompanied by Dr. Milton Eisenhower,
departed the White House and motored to MATS
Terminal.
8:23 am
Arrived at MATS Terminal and boarded the Aero
Commander which was airborne at 8:30 am
for the Gettysburg Airport.
9:03 am
Arrived at Gettysburg Airport. The President and
Dr. Milton Eisenhower motored to the Farm.
9:20 am
Arrived at the Farm.
9:30 am
The President and Dr. Milton Eisenhower inspected the
grounds near the house.
10:10 am
The President and the First Lady, Colonel and Mrs. Moore,
walked around the house and inspected the grounds
and the small cottage on the driveway.
10:37 am
The President and the First Lady, Colonel and Mrs. Moore,
took a drive on Waterworks Road to the Neuman Farm,
stopping briefly to inspect the grounds. They then
motored to the new cottage (formerly the old school)
then on to the Feaster Farm. They then returned to
the President's Farm.
2:15 pm
The President, accompanied by Chief West, toured the
fields of the Main Farm, returning to the house at
3:07 pm.
4:00 pm
The President, General Arthur Nevins, Mr. George Allen,
Mr. Billy G. Byars, departed the Farm and made a
tour of the surrounding farms.
5:30 pm
Re turned to the Farm.
No further activity this date.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
MONDAY, MAY 14, 1956
7:55 am
The President, accompanied by Dr. Walter Tkach,
departed the Farm and motored to the Gettysburg
Airport.
8:05 am
Arrived at the Gettysburg Airport. The Aero Commander
was airborne for Washington, D. C.
8:35 am
Arrived at MATS Terminal.
8:51 am
Arrived at the White House.
The President went
to his office.
8:53 am
Hon. Gerald Morgan
8:56 - 9:06 am
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
9:06 - 9:24 am
Hon. Kevin McCann
9:24 - 9:30 am
Hon. James P. Mitchell
9:33 - 9:41 am
Hon. Percival Brundage
10:30 - 10:34 am
Hon. George Christopher
Mayor of San Francisco, California
Hon. Sherman Adams
10:35 - 10:55 am
Sir Edwin Plowden
Head of the British Atomic Energy Authority
Hon. Lewis L. Strauss
Hon. J. E. Coulson
Minister, British Embassy
10:55 - 10:58 am
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
11:00 - 11:20 am
Hon. Arthur B. Langlie
Governor of the State of Washington
Hon. Sherman Adams
11:40 am
The President, accompanied by Governor Arthur B. Langlie
and Hon. James Hagerty, departed the White House
and motored to Constitution Hall where he addressed
the Conference on Occupational Safety.
MONDAY, MAY 14, 1956
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11:55 am
The President returned to the office.
11:55 - 11:58 am
Hon. James Hagerty
12:05 pm
The President departed the office and went to the Mansion.
1:00 pm
(LUNCH)
1:45 pm
The President returned to the office.
1:55 - 2:12 pm
Hon. Sherman Adams
2:14 - 2:32 pm
Mr. G. D. Birla
Birla Brothers, Ltd., India
Hon. Sherman Adams
2:35 - 3:20 pm
Dr. James R. Killian
President, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dr. James B. Fisk
Vice President, Bell Telephone Laboratories
Dr. Arthur Flemming
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
(Re Science Advisory Committee to ODM)
3:20 - 3:45 pm
Mr. Ogden Reid
New York Herald Tribune
3:45 - 4:25 pm
Hon. Arthur Radford
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
4:30 - 4:45 pm
Hon. Julius C. Holmes
U. S. Minister to Morocco
Hon. Fred Seaton
4:45 - 5:17 pm
Hon. Herbert Brownell
5:25 - 5:30 pm
Hon. James Hagerty
5:30 pm
The President departed the office and went to the Mansion.
5:30 pm
Hon. John Foster Dulles (At the Mansion)
6:00 pm
Hon. Walter F. George
Hon. John Foster Dulles (At the Mansion)
6:50 pm
The President returned to the office.
7:10 pm
Departed the office and went to the Mansion.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
TUESDAY, MAY 15, 1956
7:50 am
The President arrived at the office.
8:15 - 8:34 am
Hon. James P. Mitchell
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Gerald Morgan
Hon. I. Jack Martin
Hon. Frederick H. Meuller, Assistant Secretary of Commerce
8:34 - 8:41 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Gerald Morgan
Hon. Bryce Harlow
Hon. I. Jack Martin
8:45 - - 8:50 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Bryce Harlow
8:52 - 8:54 am
Hon. Gerald Morgan
8:54 - 8:58 am
Mr. William J. Hopkins
9:00 - 10:30 am
LEGISLATIVE LEADERS
The Vice President
Senator William F. Knowland
Senator Leverett Saltonstall
Congressman Joseph W. Martin
Congressman Charles E. Halleck
Congressman Leslie Arends
Hon. Percival Brundate
Mr. Robert Merriam
Hon. James P. Mitchell
Hon. Roswell Perkins
Hon. Bradshaw Mintner
Hon. Frederick Henry Mueller
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
Hon. James Hagerty
Hon. Gerald Morgan
Hon. Fred Seaton
Hon. Howard Pyle
Hon. Bryce Harlow
Hon. Earle Chesney
Hon. Homer Gruenther
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
TUESDAY, MAY 15, 1956
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10:34 - 10:57 am
Mr. Rudolph G. Pesata, Berwyn, Illinois
National Commander, AMVETS
Mr. Alvin M. Keller, National Program Director, AMVETS
Mr. John R. Holden, National Service and Legislative
Director, AMVETS
Mr. Norman S. Carroll, Business Manager, National
Service Foundation, AMVETS
Mr. P. E. Howard, Assistant National Executive Director,
AMVETS
Mr. David F. Schlothauer, National Executive Director,
AMVETS (did not go into the President's Office)
Mr. Venlo Walfsohn, Public Relations Director, AMVETS
(did not go into the President's office)
Hon. Bryce Harlow
Hon. Earle D. Chesney
10:57 - 11:06 am
Hon. Harold Stassen
11:06 - 11:07 am
Hon. Percival Brundage
11:07 - 11:25 am
Hon. Eric Johnston
Chairman, International Development Advisory Board
11:25 - 11:30 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
11:30 - 11:34 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
11:37 am
The President departed the office and went to the Mansion.
12:30 pm
The President had a Luncheon for a group of former
West Point Classmates, in the Washington Area,
at the White House:
Brig. General Frederic W. Boye, USA Ret.
Maj. Gen. John S. Bragdon, USA Ret.
Brig. Gen. Charles M. Busbee, USA Ret.
Brig. Gen. John F. Conklin, USA Ret.
Brig. Gen. John F. Davis, USA Ret.
Col. E. DeTreville Ellis, USA Ret.
Maj. Gen. Vernon Evans, USA Ret.
Col. Earl E. Gesler, USA Ret.
Brig. Gen. A. Howard Gilkeson, USAF Ret.
Col. Douglas H. Gillette, USA Ret.
(continued)
TUESDAY, MAY 15, 1956
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12:30 pm
Luncheon, given by the President, for a group of
former West Point classmates (continued):
Mr. Sidney C. Graves
Maj. Gen. T. J. Hanley, Jr., USAF Ret.
Col. John Easter Harris, USAF Ret.
Brig. Gen. Walter Wood Hess, Jr. USA Ret.
Col. John F. Kahle, USA Ret.
Maj. Gen. Edwin Bowman Lyon, USAF Ret.
Col. Raymond Marsh, USA Ret.
Brig. Gen. Lehman W. Miller, USA Ret.
Cdr. Edward Moale, USN Ret.
Maj. Gen. Paul J. Mueller, USA Ret.
Brig. Gen. George H. Peabody, USAF Ret.
Maj. Gen. Henry B. Sayler, USA Ret.
Lt. Gen. Joseph M. Swing, USA Ret.
Maj. Gen. William F. Tompkins, USA Ret.
Brig. Gen. Edward C. Wallington, USA Ret.
Maj. Robert B. Lorch
1:52 pm
The President departed the White House and motored to
Burning Tree Country Club.
2:16 pm
Arrived at Burning Tree.
2:40 pm
The President teed off with the following:
Colonel Thomas E. Belshe
Mr. George Bunker
Mr. Robert Learned
5:41 pm
Golf game completed.
6:12 pm
The President departed Burning Tree and motored to
the White House.
6:36 pm
Arrived at the White House and went to the office.
7:05 pm
The President departed the office and went to the Mansion.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 1956
7:50 am
The President arrived at the office.
8:00 - 8:05 am
Mr. Robert Montgomery
8:06 - 8:15 am
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
8:16 - 8:27 am
Mrs. Ann Whitman
8:27 - 8:33 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
8:33 - 9:02 am
Hon. Theodore Streibert
Mr. Abbott Washburn
Mr. Conger Reynolds
In charge, Office of Private Cooperation
Hon. James Hagerty
9:00 - 10:55 am
CABINET MEETING
The President
Hon. Richard T. Nixon
Hon. John Foster Dulles
Hon. Randolph Burgess, Under Secretary of the Treasury
Hon. Charles S. Thomas
Hon. Herbert Brownell, Jr.
Hon. Arthur Summerfield
Hon. Clarence A. Davis, Acting Secretary of the Interior
Hon. Ezra Taft Benson
Hon. Sinclair Weeks
Hon. James P. Mitchell
Hon. Marion Folsom
Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
Hon. Harold E. Stassen
Hon. Percival Brundage
Hon. Arthur Flemming
Hon. Arthur Burns
Hon. Philip Young (for first item only)
Mr. Raymond J. Saulnier, Council of Economic Advisers
Hon. Frederick H. Mueller, Assistant Secretary of
Commerce
Hon. John Potts Barnes, Assistant General Counsel,
Treasury Department
Hon. Wendell Barnes, Small Business Administration
Hon. Thomas B. Pike, Assistant Secretary of Defense
(continued)
WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 1956
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9:00 am
CABINET MEETING (continued):
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon, Bernard M. Shanley
Hon. Gerald Morgan
Hon. Fred Seaton
Hon. Bryce Harlow
Hon. Willian H. Jackson
Hon. Bradley Patterson
Hon. Murray Snyder
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
The following were absent:
The Secretary of the Treasury
The Secretary of Defense
10:55 - 11:03 am
Hon. Kevin McCann
11:03 - I1:38 am
Hon. Dillon Anderson
Hon. James S. Lay
11:38 - 11:41 am
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
11:43 am
The President departed the office and went to the Mansion.
1:15 pm
The following attended the Luncheon the President gave
in honor of His Excellency Dr. Sukarno, President
of the Republic of Indonesia:
H. E. The President of the Republic of Indonesia
H. E. The Minister for Foreign Affairs of the
Republic of Indonesia (Roeslan Abdulgani)
H. E. The Ambassador of the Republic of Indonesia
The Hon. Zainul Arifin - First Deputy Chairman,
Parliament of the Republic of Indonesia
The Hon. The Chief Justice of the Republic of
Indonesia (Dr. Wirjono Prodjodikoro)
The Hon. A. K. Pringgodigdo, Chief of President's
Cabinet, Republic of Indonesia
The Hon. The Governor of West Java
(Sanusi Hardjadinata)
The Hon. Vice Air Marshal Suryadarma, Chief
of Staff, Air Force of the Republic of Indonesia
The Hon. Suwirjo, President Director of the
Indonesian Industrial Bank
The Hon. Dr. Johannes Leimena, Member of
Parliament of the Republic of Indonesia
WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 1956
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1:15 pm
Luncheon in honor of the President of Indonesia (continued):
The Hon. Sutarto Hadisudibjo, Member of
Parliament of the Republic of Indonesia
The Hon. Colonel Nazir, Commander of Naval Bases
in Java
The Hon. Colonel J. F. Warrouw, Commander,
Seventh Army Division of Republic of Indonesia
The Hon. Dr. Ouw Eng Liang, Physician to the
President of the Republic of Indonesia
Lt. Col. Sugandhy, Aide-de-Camp to the President
of the Republic of Indonesia
Hon. Richard T. Nixon
Chief Justice Earl Warren
Hon. Sam Rayburn
Hon. John Foster Dulles
Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
Hon. Sinclair Weeks
Hon. James P. Mitchell
Hon. Marion B. Folsom
Hon. Percival Brundage
Senator Walter F. George
Senator H. Alexander Smith
Senator William F. Knowland
Senator Lyndon B. Johnson
Rep. Joseph W. Martin, Jr.
Rep. Walter H. Judd
Rep. Clement J. Zablocki
Hon. Louis S. Rothschild
Hon. Herold C. Hunt
Admiral Arthur W. Radford
Hon. Lewis L. Strauss
Hon. Allen W. Dulles
Hon. John B. Hollister
Hon. Herbert V. Prochnow
Hon. Walter S. Robertson
Hon. Robert R. Bowie
Hon. Felix E. Wormser
Hon. J. Ernest Wilkins
Hon. Hugh S. Cumming, Jr.
Hon. Theodore C. Streibert
Hon. Robert E. McLaughlin
Hon. David B. Karrick
Brig. Gen. Thomas A. Lane
Hon. Dillon Anderson
Hon. William H. Jackson
WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 1956
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1:15 pm
Luncheon in honor of the President of Indonesia (continued):
Hon. Lynn U. Stambaugh
Hon. E. Frederick Morrow
Mr. Floyd D. Akers
Dr. Hurst R. Anderson
Very Reverend Edward B. Bunn, S. J.
Mr. Robert V. Fleming
Mr. W. Alton Jones
Dr. Cloyd H. Marvin
Most Reverend Bryan J. McEntegart
Mr. Charles H. Tompkins
Maj. Gen. Gordon B. Rogers
U. S. Military Aide to the President of Indonesia
3:05 pm
The President made remarks over closed-circuit
television in connection with the dedication of the
General Motors Technical Center.
3:17 pm
The President returned to the office,
3:21 - 3:47 pm
Mr. Edward P. Curtis
3:47 - 4:15 pm
Mr. Justus B. L. Lawrence
4:25 pm
The President went to the South Grounds to hit golf balls.
5:10 pm
The President returned to his office.
5:25 pm
The President departed the office and went to the Mansion.
THE PRESIDENT' S APPOINTMENTS
THURSDAY, MAY 17, 1956
8:11 am
The President arrived in the office.
8:14 - 8:17 am
Mr. William J. Hopkins
8:17 - 8:23 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
8:23 - 8:29 am
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
8:43 - 8:55 am
Lt. General Floyd L. Parks, USA, Retired
Colonel Louis F. Lucas
Deputy Executive Director, National Rifle Association
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
(The President was presented a life membership
in the National Rifle Association).
9:00 - 11:30 am
NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL
The President
Hon. Richard T. Nixon
Hon. John Foster Dulles
Hon. Charles E. Wilson
Hon. Arthur Flemming
Hon. George M. Humphrey
Hon. Herbert Brownell
Hon, Harold E. Stassen
Hon. Percival Brundage
Hon. Lewis L. Strauss
Hon. John B. Hollister
Hon. Theodore Streibert
Hon. Arthur Radford
Hon. Allen Dulles
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Dillon Anderson
Hon. Joseph Dodge
Hon. William Jackson
Hon. Herbert Hoover
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
Hon. Robert Bowie
Hon. James Lay
Hon. Everett Gleason
11:30 - 11:50 am
Hon. Herbert Brownell
Hon. Sherman Adams
THURSDAY, MAY 17, 1956
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11:50 - 11:52 am
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
12:00 Noon
The President departed the office and went to the Mansion.
1:00 pm
(LUNCH)
1:43 pm
The President arrived at the office.
2:10 - 2:26 pm
Hon. Allen Dulles
2:55 - 3:00 pm
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
3:20 - 3:45 pm
Hon. Kevin McCann
Mrs. Ann Whitman
3:47 - 4:10 pm
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Bryce Harlow
4:25 pm
The President went to the South Grounds to hit golf balls.
6:00 pm
Returned to the office.
6:05 pm
Departed the office and went to the Mansion.
7:40 pm
The President and Mrs. Eisenhower departed the
White House and motored to the Statler Hotel
where they attended the Women's National
Press Club's Annual Dinner.
10:35 pm
Departed the Statler Hotel and motored to the White House.
10:40 pm
Arrived at the White House.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
FRIDAY, MAY 18, 1956
7:51 am
The President arrived at the office.
7:58 - 8:08 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Bryce Harlow
8:15 - 8:30 am
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
8:20 - 8:25 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Bryce Harlow
8:30 - 8:53 am
Congressman Joseph W. Martin, Jr.
8:54 - 9:03 am
Hon. Bryce Harlow
9:05 - 9:09 am
Hon. James Hagerty
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
9:09 - 10:31 am
Hon. Charles E. Wilson
Colonel Carey A. Randall
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
9:30 - 9:39 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. I. Jack Martin
(Joined Secretary Wilson)
10:33 - 11:01 am
Major General John S. Bragdon
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
11:02 - 11:13 am
The President greeted the following group of
Presbyterian Church Leaders from foreign countries:
Edward Adams
Korea
Kwang Kook Ahn
Korea
Jose dos Santos Borges, Jr.
Brazil
Ibrahim Daghir
Syria - Lebanon
Edward L. R. Elson
Washington, D. C.
Donald R. Fletcher
Representative from
Mexico, Colombia,
Guatemala, Venezuela
Kyung Chik Han
Korea
Josepha Illano
Manila
Roberto Irwin
Venezuela
Do-Yup Kim
Korea
Benjamin Lall
India
FRIDAY, MAY 18, 1956
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11:02 - 11:13 am
Presbyterian Church Leaders from Foreign Countries:
Alfonso Lloreda
Caracas
Ralph K. Merker
Washington, D. C.
Matthias Meye
West Africa
Mrs. Kazuke Mijagi
Tokyo, Japan
Israel Matta Morales
Guatemala
Eliezer L. Moreno
Morelos, Mexico
Takeshi Muto
Tokyo, Japan
Sudir K. Roy
India
Horace W. Ryburn
Thailand
Polus Sahda
Iran
Enrique C. Sobrepena
Philippines
Leck Taiyong
Thailand
Andrew Thakur Das
Pakistan
Mr. and Mrs. Gilberto
Gutierrez Torres
Colombia
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin E.
Walline
Hong Kong
John B. Weir
India
Yan Chiu Wong
Hong Kong
George Yount
Washington, D. C.
Kyoji Buma
New York
John Corbin
New York
John Rosengrant
New York
11:15 - 11:19 am
Hon. Gerald Morgan
11:19 - 11:45 am
Hon. Arthur Burns
11:45 - 11:52 am
Hon. Gerald Morgan
11:52 - 11:55 am
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
11:57 pm
The President departed the office and went to the
Mansion.
1:00 pm
(LUNCH)
1:24 pm
The President, accompanied by Mr. John E. McClure,
departed the White House and motored to
Burning Tree Country Club.
1:47 pm
Arrived at Burning Tree.
FRIDAY, MAY 18, 1956
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2:08 pm
The President teed off with Mr. John McClure.
4:11 pm
Completed 18 holes of golf.
4:41 pm
Departed Burning Tree with Mr. McClure. Enroute
to the White House, the President dropped
Mr. McClure off at his home.
5:10 pm
Arrived at the White House.
8:00 pm
The President and Mrs. Eisenhower departed the
White House and motored to the Mayflower Hotel
to attend a dinner given in their honor by the
President of Indonesia, Sukarno.
8:05 pm
Arrived at the Mayflower Hotel.
11:26 pm
The President and Mrs. Eisenhower departed the
Mayflower Hotel and motored to the White House.
11:30 pm
Arrived at the White House.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
SATURDAY, MAY 19, 1956
8:06 am
The President arrived at the office,
9:00 - 9:42 am
Major Gen. John S. Bragdon
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Fred Seaton
9:45 - 9:50 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
10:02 - 10:40 am
Hon. Arthur Radford
Admiral Felix Stump
10:42 - 10:52 am
Commander Edward L. Beach
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
11:05 - 11:10 am
Hon. Gerald Morgan
11:15 - 11:28 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
11:53 am
The President departed the office and went to the Mansion.
1:00 pm
(LUNCH)
1:40 pm
The President, accompanied by Major John Eisenhower,
departed the White House and motored to Burning Tree.
2:04 pm
Arrived at Burning Tree.
2:32 pm
The President teed off with the following:
Major John Eisenhower
Colonel Thomas Belshe
Mr. John E. McClure
6:22 pm
The President and Major John Eisenhower departed
Burning Tree Country Club and motored to the
White House.
6:43 pm
Arrived at the White House.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
SUNDAY, MAY 20, 1956
10:49 am
The President and Mrs. Eisenhower, accompanied by
David, Barbara Ann, and Susan Eisenhower,
motored to the National Presbyterian Church.
10:55 am
Arrived at the Church.
(David and Barbara Ann sat with the President
and Mrs. Eisenhower while Susanne attended the
kindergarten class).
12:11 pm
The President and Mrs. Eisenhower and the three
grandchildren departed the Church and motored
to the White House.
12:16 pm
Arrived at the White House,
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
MONDAY, MAY 21, 1956
8:00 am
The President arrived in the office.
8:15 - 8:50 am
Hon. Kevin McCann
(Worked on the Baylor Speech)
9:05 - 9:26 am
Hon. Dillon Anderson
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
9:26 - 10:05 am
Hon. Dillon Anderson
10:15 - 10:25 am
Hon. Saddigh Muntasser, Ambassador from Libya
(Came to see the President prior to returning to
Libya)
10:43 - 10:52 am
Hon. Cecil B. Lyon
Newly appointed Ambassador to Chile
11:00 - 11:15 am
Captain Margaret Williams, U. S. Army Nurses Corps
(One of the President's nurses in Fitzsimons Army
Hospital following his attack)
11:25 - 11:35 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
11:35 am
The President departed the office and went to the Mansion.
1:00 pm
(LUNCH)
1:38 pm
The President returned to the office.
1:42 - 1:52 pm
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
1:57 - 2:40 pm
Hon. Herbert Brownell, Jr.
2:42 pm
The President departed the office and went to the
Mansion.
3:05 pm
The President and Mrs. Eisenhower went to the South
Grounds where they received hospitalized veterans in
Government Hospitals in Washington, at a Garden Party
in their honor. They first shook hands with all the
veterans attending, then moved around the Grounds
among the guests.
MONDAY, MAY 21, 1956
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4:04 pm
The President returned to the office,
4:15 pm
Departed the office and went to the Mansion.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
TUESDAY, MAY 22, 1956
8:12 am
The President arrived at the office accompanied by
General Alfred M. Gruenther. General Gruenther
remained with the President until 8:32 am.
8:33 - 8:35 am
Mr. William J. Hopkins
8:34 - 8:43 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
Hon. Philip Young
Hon. I. Jack Martin
8:44 - 8:50 am
Senator Ralph E. Flanders
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
8:50 - 8:52 am
Hon. Sinclair Weeks
8:52 - 9:00 am
Mrs. Ann Whitman
9:00 - 10:45 am
LEGISLATIVE LEADERS
The President
Hon. Richard T. Nixon
Senator William F. Knowland
Senator Styles Bridges
Senator Leverett Saltonstall
Senator Edward Martin
Senator Clifford P. Case
Senator Frank Carlson
CongressmanJoseph W. Martin, Jr.
Congressman Charles Halleck
Congressman Leslie Arends
Congressman Leo Allen
Hon. Sinclair Weeks
Hon. Philip Ray, General Counsel, Commerce
Hon. Marion B. Folsom
Hon. Roswell Perkins
Hon. George M. Humphrey
Hon. Philip Young
Hon. Percival Brundage
Hon. Clarence Davis
Mr. Elmer Bennett, Department of Interior
(continued)
MAY 22, 1956
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9:00 - 10:45 am
LEGISLATIVE LEADERS
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
Hon. Gerald Morgan
Hon. Fred Seaton
Hon. I. Jack Martin
Hon. Bryce Harlow
Hon. Earle D. Chesney
Hon. Murray Snyder
Hon. Homer Gruenther
10:46 - 11:08 am
The Right Honorable Hugh Gaitskell
Leader of the British Labor Party
Sir Roger Makins
British Ambassador
Mr. C. Burke Elbrick
Acting Assistant Secretary for European Affairs
U. S. Department of State
11:08 - 11:50 am
Hon. Charles E. Wilson
Hon. Arthur Radford
Colonel Carey Randall
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
Hon. Fred Seaton
11:50 - 11:52 am Hon. Murray Snyder
11:52 - 12:00 noon Hon. Gerald Morgan
12:00 noon
Mr. Aksel Nielsen joined the President in his office
and they went to the swimming pool.
12:30 pm
Departed the pool and went to the Mansion.
1:00 pm
(LUNCH)
2:15 - 2:25 pm
The President returned to the office accompanied by
Mrs. W. Alton Jones
2:36 - 2:41 pm
Hon. Sherman Adams
2:41 - 2:44 pm
Hon. Gerald Morgan
TUESDAY, MAY 22, 1956
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2:44 - 2:46 pm
Mr. William J. Hopkins
3:10 pm
The President went to the South Grounds to hit golf balls,
3:36 pm
The President returned to the office.
3:37 pm
Dr. Milton Eisenhower
4:05 pm
The President departed the office and went to the Mansion.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 1956
8:32 am
The President arrived in the office with General
Alfred M. Gruenther. General Gruenther
remained with the President until 8:42 am).
8:42 - 8:45 am
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
8:45 - 9:00 am
The following group came to the White House to
present the President tickets for the annual
Republican-Democratic ball game:
Congressman Glenn R. Davis, Wisconsin
Congressman A. S. Herlong, Jr., Florida
Congressman Olin Teague, Texas
Congressman Thor Tollefson, Washington
Mr. William Bailey, The Washington Evening Star
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
Hon. Bryce Harlow
(Pictures were taken during the presentation).
9:00 - 9:10 am
Mr. William P. Goldman, New York, N. Y.
9:10 - 9:15 am
Hon. Percival Brundage
10:00 - 10:30 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
Hon. Gerald Morgan
Hon. Gabriel Hauge
Hon. Bryce Harlow
Hon. I. Jack Martin
Hon. Fred Seaton
Hon. Murray Snyder
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
(Pre-Press Conference briefing)
10:30 - 11:05 am
PRESS CONFERENCE
11:08 - 11:25 am
Hon. Sinclair Weeks
11:25 - 11:30 am
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
11:30 am
The President departed the office and went to the
Mansion.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 1956
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12:30 pm
The President gave a Luncheon for a group of
Congressmen and former Congressmen who signed
letter urging the President to return from NATO
Command and run for the Presidency. The following
attended:
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. James C. Auchincloss
Mr. Claude Bakewell
Hon. Clifford P. Case
Hon, Albert M. Cole
Hon. W. Sterling Cole
Hon. Norris Cotton
Hon. Harmar D. Denny
Hon. Gerald R. Ford, Jr.
Hon. Christian Herter
Hon. Clifford R. Hope
Hon. Jacob K. Javits
Hon. Walter H. Judd
Hon. Robert W. Kean
Hon. Thruston B. Morton
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
Hon. Winston L. Prouty
Hon. R. Walter Riehlman
Hon. Hugh Scott
Hon. Edward L. Sittler, Jr.
Hon. Thor C. Tollefson
2:26 pm
The President departed the White House and motored to
Burning Tree Country Club.
3:00 pm
Arrived at Burning Tree.
3:10 pm
The President played eighteen holes of golf with
Major General Edward Peck Curtis
Colonel Thomas Belshe
5:35 pm
Mr. Clifford Roberts arrived at Burning Tree and joined
the President on the 18th fairway.
6:25 pm
The President, accompanied by Mr. Clifford Roberts,
departed the Club and motored to the White House.
6:50 pm
Arrived at the White House,
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
THURSDAY, MAY 24, 1956
8:15 am
The President arrived in the office.
8:16 - 8:32 am
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
8:30 - 8:38 am
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
(joined Colonel Goodpaster in the President's office).
8:38 - 9:00 am
Mrs. Ann Whitman
8:56 - 9:00 am
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
9:10 - 9:15 am
The President presented to Senator John Marshall Butler
The American Legion's Robert L. Hague Maritime
Award for 1956 of which he is the recipient. The
following attended the ceremony:
Senator John Marshall Butler
Mr. Henry C. Parke
Chairman, National Merchant Marine
Committee, The American Legion
Mr. Oliver D. Colvin
Commander, Robert L. Hague Merchant
Marine Industries Post, The American Legion
Mr. Sheldon H. Ridder
Chairman, Trophy Committee,
The American Legion
Mr. John Carroll, Past Commander,
Robert L. Hague Merchant Marine Industries
Post, The American Legion
Mr. David L. Brigham, Commander, Department
Maryland, The American Legion
Mr. Edwin Murray Hood, Administrative
Assistant to Senator John Marshall Butler
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
Hon. I. Jack Martin
Hon. Murray Snyder
(Pictures were taken during the presentation).
9:15 - 9:41 am
Hon. William Jackson
Special Assistant to the President to coordinate
Foreign Policy Actions
9:41 - 10:02 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
THURSDAY, MAY 24, 1956
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10:02 - 10:30 am
Hon. Dillon Anderson
Hon. James Lay
10:32 - 11:37 am
(General Maxwell D. Taylor)
(Admiral Arthur W. Radford)
OFF THE RECORD
11:37 - 11:39 am
Congressman Patrick J. Hillings
11:40 - 11:44 am
The following winners of the 1956 Pennsylvania Junior
Chicken-of-Tomorrow Contest called on the President
and presented him with packages of broiler chickens:
George Fachet, Kintersville, Pa. (First winner)
Ronald Shaffer, Dover, Pa., (runnerup)
The following finished among the first ten:
Robert Rodgers, Butler, Pa.
Robert Wagle, Valencia, Pa,
Charles Delu, Butler, Pa.
Leverne Hendricks, Souderton, Pa.
Shirley Ann Ream, Lebanon, Pa.
James Clanton, Kenneth Square, Pa.
Raymond Winters, Conestoga, Pa.
Sarah Ann Herr, Rohrerstown, Pa.
The winners were accompanied by:
Mr. and Mrs. Leslie S. Hubbard
Mr. and Mrs. Walter S. Shearer
Mr. and Mrs. Harry H. Kauffman
Miss Florence Seiple
Mr. William A. Staempfli, Jr.
12:00 Noon
The President departed the White House and went to
the Mansion.
1:00 pm
(LUNCH)
1:32 pm
The President returned to the office.
1:35 - 1:38 pm
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
2:00 - 2:03 pm
Admiral Richard E. Byrd
Hon. Sherman Adams
2:03 - 2:07 pm
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
2:20 - 3:12 pm
Hon. John Foster Dulles
THURSDAY, MAY 24, 1956
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3:12 - 4:02 pm
Hon. Clarence E. Davis, Under Secretary of the Interior
Hon. George H. Roderick, Assistant Secretary of the Army
Hon. Ervin L. Peterson, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture
Major General John Bragdon
Mr. Robert Merriam, Bureau of the Budget
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Fred Seaton
(re water resources)
4:45 pm
The President went to the South Grounds of the White
House to hit golf balls.
5:25 pm
Returned to the office.
5:27 - 5:34 pm
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
5:35 - 5:40 pm
Mrs. Ann Whitman
5:45 pm
The President departed the office and went to the
Mansion,
6:45 pm
The President departed the White House and motored
to the Sheraton Park Hotel to attend the White House
Correspondents Dinner.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
FRIDAY, MAY 25, 1956
WACO, TEXAS
6:39 am
The President, accompanied by Captain Richard W. Streiff,
departed the White House and motored to MATS Terminal.
6:47 am
Arrived at MATS Terminal.
6:55 am
The President boarded the Columbine and was airborne for
Waco, Texas, Those accompanying him were:
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
Hon. Dillon Anderson
Congressman Bruce Alger
General Howard McC. Snyder
Mr. Ralph Pittman
Hon. Kevin McCann
Hon. Murray Snyder
Colonel William Draper
Mr. Jack Romangna
9:45 am
The President arrived at the James Connally Air Force Base,
(CST)
Waco, Texas. He was greeted by:
Major General G. P. Disosway
Commanding General of Flying-Training Air Force Base,
Waco, Texas
Hon. Allan Shivers, Governor of the State of Texas
Dr. William H. White
President of Baylor University
After this exchange of greetings, Dr. White presented the
following to the President:
Hon. Oveta Culp Hobby
Congressman W. R. Poage
Congressman O. Clark Fisher
Mr. Sid Richardson
Mr. Grady Yates
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Blakley
Mr. H. J. Porter
Hon. J. E. Hickman
Mr. Howard Hambleton
Mr. Harlan Fentress
Mr. D. T. Hicks, Jr.
Mrs. Allan Shivers
Mr. and Mrs. William Francis
10:00 am
The President and his party proceeded to the Heart O'Texas
Coliseum, a distance of 12. 5 miles.
FRIDAY, MAY 25, 1956
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WACO, TEXAS
10:35 am
Arrived at the Coliseum, The President proceeded to the
speaker's platform where he was greeted by the following:
Hon. Oveta Culp Hobby
Dr. L. W. Courtney
Hon. Joe Sheehy
Dr. M. L. Fergeson
Hon. John B. Sheppard
Mr. Frank Mayborn
Hon. Joe Estes
Mr. Don Berry
Mr. William F. Fleming
Miss Dorothy Miller
Dr. W. T. Gooch
Dr. Monroe Carroll
10:45 am
The Baylor University Commencement Exercises began.
Invocation by A. Hamilton Reid
Executive Secretary, Baptist Executive Board of Alabama
Greetings by Dr. William Richardson White
President of Baylor University
The President delivered the Convocation Address.
The President was presented the Degree of Doctor of Laws
by Dr. William Walter Melton, Chairman of the Board of
Trustees of Baylor University.
The President extended greetings to the Graduates of the
Air Force Reserve Officers Training Corps.
Benediction by Reverend W. Lowrey Cooper
Missionary to Argentina, South America
11:50 am
Program concluded.
Dr. William White presented the following to the President:
Mrs. William White
General and Mrs. Paxton
Mr. and Mrs. Mead
(The above are friends of Dr. White, and guests
on the occasion).
11:55 am
The President departed the platform and went to his suite
to remove his cap and gown. He was assisted by:
Dr. W. T. Gooch
Dr. L. W. Courtney
Dr. Mr. L. Fergeson
FRIDAY, MAY 25, 1956
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WACO, TEXAS
12:00 Noon
The President departed the Coliseum and motored to the
James Connally Air Force Base:
12:15 pm
Arrived at the Air Force Base. The President proceeded to
Building 7-5, and entered the briefing room where he met
with the following members of the Texas Republican State
Committee:
Mrs. John R. Black, National Committeewoman, Dallas, Texas
Mrs. Bette Simpson Buhler, State Vice Chairman,
Victoria, Texas
Mrs. McClelland Wallace, Houston, Texas
Mr. John Q. Adams, State Chairman, Harlingen, Texas
Mr. H. J. Porter, National Committeeman, Houston, Texas
Mrs. H. J. Porter
Mr. James W. Porter (son)
Mr. W. H. Francis, Jr., State Finance Chairman and
Member Finance Committee, Houston, Texas
Mrs. W. H. Francis, Jr.
Mr. Jake L. Hamon, Dallas, Texas
Mr. Earl Hollandsworth, Longview, Texas
Mr. Arnold O. Morgan, Corpus Christi, Texas
Mr. J. D. Metz, Member, State Executive Committee,
Waco, Texas
Mr. J. R. Milam, Republican County Chairman,
McLennan County, Waco, Texas
Mr. Fred King, Wichita Falls, Texas
Mr. R. E. Smith, Houston, Texas
Hon. Oveta Culp Hobby, Houston, Texas
Mr. Harris Gregg, State Treasurer, Houston, Texas
Mr. John Blaffer, Houston, Texas
Dr. Hampton Robinson, Houston, Texas
Mr. Ray Sheaffer, Fort Worth, Texas
Mr. Walter Fleming, Dallas, Texas
Mr. R. S. Brennand, Midland, Texas
Mr. W. J. Goldston, Houston, Texas
Mr. J. A. Gooch, Fort Worth, Texas (Keynoter of convention)
Mr. Price Campbell, Abilene, Texas
Mr. Walter Taber, Corpus Christi, Texas
12:35 pm
The President departed Building 7-5 and motored to the
James Connally Air Force Base.
12:50 pm
The President and his party were airborne for Washington, D. C.
(C.S.T.)
FRIDAY, MAY 25, 1956
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7:05 pm
The President arrived at MATS Terminal.
(E.D.S.T.)
7:14 pm
The President, accompanied by General Howard McC. Snyder,
entered his Aero-Commander plane USAF #1, and was
airborne for Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
7:40 pm
Arrived at the Gettysburg Airport. He motored from the
Airport to the Gettysburg Farm.
7:55 pm
Arrived at the Gettysburg Farm.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
SATURDAY, MAY 26, 1956
GETTYSBURG, PA.
9:12 am
The President, accompanied by Mr. George Allen,
departed the Farm and motored to the Gettysburg Country
Club.
9:12 am
The President teed off with the following:
Mr. George Allen
Mr. Richard (Dick) Sleichter
golf pro at Gettysburg Country Club
1:00 pm
Completed 27 holes of golf.
1:05 pm
The President and Mr. Allen departed the Club and
motored to the Farm.
1:10 pm
Arrived at the Farm.
2:40 pm
The President and Mr. George Allen departed the Farm and
motored to the residence of Mr. Floyd Akers, Thurmont,
Maryland, (Little Hunting Creek Lodge), where the President
did some trout fishing.
6:05 pm
The President and Mr. George Allen departed Little Hunting
Creek Lodge and motored to the Farm.
6:45 pm
Arrived at the Farm.
No further activity this date.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
SUNDAY, MAY 27, 1956
GETTYSBURG, PA.
10:19 am
Mr. and Mrs. George Allen, and Mrs. Cane, Mrs. Allen's
mother, visited at the Farm.
10:37 am
The President, accompanied by General Howard McC. Snyder,
and Mr. George Allen, made a tour of the Farm in the Station
Wagon.
11:26 am
Returned to the Farm.
3:30 pm
The President toured the Feaster Farm until 4:00 pm.
No further activity this date.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
MONDAY, MAY 28, 1956
9:15 am
The President, accompanied by General Howard McC. Snyder,
departed the Farm and motored to the Gettysburg Airport
where they boarded the Aero-Commander, USAF # 1, and
were airborne for MATS Terminal at 9:30 am.
10:00 am
Arrived at MATS Terminal, Washington, D. C.
10:03 am
Departed MATS Terminal and motored to the White House.
10:12 am
Arrived at the White House. The President went to his office.
10:15 - 10:18 am Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
10:18 - 10:30 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
10:30 - 10:35 am
Mr. William J. Hopkins
10:40 - 10:58 am
Mr. Philip S. Hitchcock
Hon. Howard Pyle
11:00 - 11:50 am
Hon. Allen Dulles
Hon. Arthur Radford
General Nathan Twining
Hon. Herbert Hoover, Jr.
11:50 - 12:00 am
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
12:04 pm
The President departed the office and went to the Mansion.
1:00 pm
(LUNCH)
1:35 pm
The President returned to the office.
1:37 - 2:33 pm
Hon. James Hagerty
1:40 - 2:33 pm
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
Mr. James Rowley
(Joined Mr. Hagerty in the President's office).
2:35 - 2:45 pm
Midshipman R. E. Smith
Midshipman R. D. Roberts
Commander Edward L. Beach
Lt. John Kenneth Ryder
(Presented the President with a copy of "The Lucky Bag",
the Naval Academy Yearbook)
MONDAY, MAY 28, 1956
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2:45 - 3:00 pm
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
3:04 - 3:53 pm
Mr. Henry Luce
3:53 - 4:05 pm
Hon. Gerald Morgan
4:02 - 4:07 pm
Hon. Sherman Adams
4:07 - 4:29 pm
Hon. Arthur Larson
Under Secretary of Labor
Hon. Sherman Adams
4:29 - 4:31 pm
Hon, Murray Snyder
4:49 - 4:52 pm
The President signed the Farm Bill. Those present were:
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
Hon. Gerald Morgan
Hon. Murray Snyder
5:00 - 5:05 pm
Hon. James Hagerty
5:08 pm
The President went to the South Grounds to hit golf balls.
6:25 pm
The President returned to the office.
6:50 pm
Departed the office and went to the Mansion.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
TUESDAY, MAY 29, 1956
8:04 am
The President arrived in the office, accompanied by
Captain Richard W. Streiff.
8:05 - 8:45 am
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
8:45 - 9:00 am
Hon. Ezra Taft Benson
Hon. Gabriel Hauge
9:00 - 9:15 am
Hon. Lewis L. Strauss
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
9:20 - 10:03 am
H. E. Gaganvihari Lallubhai Mehta
Ambassador of India
Miss Rajkumari Amrit Kaur
Indian Minister for Health
Hon. Bradshaw Mintener
Assistant Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare
10:03 - 10:21 am
Senator H. Alexander Smith
10:23 - 10:28 am
The President received the Teacher of the Year.
The following were present:
Mr. Richard Nelson - Teacher of the Year
Science Teacher from Kalispell, Montana
Mr. Everett O'Hare (student)
Mr. Gerald Miller (student)
Hon. Herold C. Hunt, Under Secretary of H. E. W.
Dr. S. M. Brownell, Commissioner of Education
Mr. Carroll Hanson, Director, Publications
Services, Office of Education
Miss Blanche Crippen, National Education Association,
Representing the Council of Chief State School
Officers
Mr. Otis Wiese, Editor and Publisher, McCall's
Magazine, New York City
Mr. Henry Ehrlich, McCall's Editorial Department,
New York City
Mr. Frank Hogen, McCall's Staff, New York City
Miss Christine Sadler, McCall's Washington Staff
Mrs. Adele Penterman Reed, Interviewer of the
Teacher of the Year Nominees
10:28 - 10:34 am
Hon. Kevin McCann
TUESDAY, MAY 29, 1956
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10:30 - 10:35 am
Hon. James Hagerty
10:35 - 10:50 am
The following members of the Board of Directors of
The Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge called on
the President:
Dr. Raymond B. Allen
Chancellor, University of California, Los Angeles
Mr. George D. Bailey
Partner, Touche, Niven, Bailey and Smart,
Detroit, Michigan
Major General Milton G. Baker, Valley Forge
Mr. Don Belding
Chairman, Foote, Cone and Belding, Los Angeles
General Omar Bradley, Los Angeles
Mr. William Herbert Carr
Executive Vice President, California Packing
Corporation, San Francisco, California
Mr. James Cope
Vice President, Chrysler Corporation, Detroit
Mr. Roger S. Firestone
President Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, Pa.
Dr. John Robbin Hart
George Washington Memorial Chapel, Valley Forge
Mr. Charles R. Hook
Chairman, Armoc Steel Corporation, Middletown, O.
Dr. Raymond E. Jackson
Past Imperial Potentate, Masonic Shrine,
Buffalo, New York
Dr. Robert L. Johnson
President, Temple University, Philadelphia
Hon. Kevin McCann
Mr. William C. McCord
Chairman, National U. S. Radiator Corporation,
Dallas, Texas
Mr. Graham Patterson
Publisher, Town Journal, Philadelphia, Pa.
Mrs. J. Howard Pew
Philadelphia, Pa.
Dr. Norman Salit, New York, N. Y.
Mr. Faustin J. Solon
Vice President, Owens-Illinois Glass Company
Toledo, Ohio
Dr. Kenneth D. Wells
President, Freedoms Foundation, Valley Forge
TUESDAY, MAY 29, 1956
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10:35 - 10:50 am
Members of the Board of Directors of Freedoms Foundation
(continued):
Mr. Charles M. White
President, Republic Steel Company, Cleveland, O.
Mrs. Clifford F. Hood
Pittsburgh, Pa.
Maj. General Harlan N. Hartness
Executive Vice President, Freedoms Foundation
Mr. Richard Foltz
Vice President, Freedoms Foundation, Va lley Forge
Mr. Richard Funk
Freedoms Foundation, Valley Forge
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
Hon. Murray Snyder
10:50 - 10:53 am
Hon. Gerald Morgan
11:05 - 11:15 am
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
11:40 am
The President departed the office and went to the Mansion.
1:00 pm
Departed the White House and motored to MATS Terminal.
1:15 pm
The President was airborne for Gettysburg, Pa.
1:45 pm
Arrived at the Gettysburg Airport, and motored to the
Farm.
1:58 pm
Arrived at the Gettysburg Farm.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
WEDNESDAY, MAY 30, 1956
MEMORIAL DAY
8:11 am
The President, accompanied by Lt. Colonel Walter Tkach,
departed the Farm and motored to the Gettysburg Airport.
8:21 am
Arrived at the Gettysburg Airport, boarded USAF # 1,
and were airborne for Washington, D. C.
8:52 am
Arrived at MATS Terminal. The President motored to the
White House.
9:05 am
Arrived at the White House.
9:18 am
The President arrived at his office.
9:50 - 10:00 am
Hon. James Hagerty
10:00 - 10:05 am
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
Hon. James Hagerty
10:05 - 10:55 am
Hon, Charles E. Wilson
Hon. George M. Humphrey
Hon. Donald Quarles
Hon. James Hagerty (left meeting at 10:15 am)
10:55 am
The President, accompanied by Secretaries Wilson,
Quarles, and Humphrey, departed the White House and
walked to St. John's Episcopal C hurch.
11:00 am
Arrived at St. John's where they were greeted by
Reverend Frank Wilson who escorted them into the Church.
They remained approximately ten minutes in silent meditation.
11:10 am
Departed the Church and motored to the White House.
11:15 am
The President returned to the office.
11:15 - 11:26 am
Hon. Charles E. Wilson
Hon. George M. Humphrey
11:26 - 11:30 am
Congressman Frank Craig Osmers
Hon. Bryce Harlow
11:30 - 11:48 am Hon. Dillon Anderson
Hon. James Lay (left at 11:43 am)
WEDNESDAY, MAY 30, 1956
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11:48 - 12:15 pm
(Miss Eleanor Harris)
(Hon. James Hagerty) OFF THE RECORD
(Miss Harris is preparing a story for American Weekly)
12:15 - 12:55 pm
Hon. Arthur Burns
Hon. Gabriel Hauge
12:40 - 1:00 pm
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
1:00 pm
The President departed the office and went to the Mansion.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
THURSDAY, MAY 31, 1956
7:50 am
The President arrived at the office accompanied by
Captain Richard W. Streiff.
8:10 - 8:15 am
Hon. Kevin McCann
8:27 - 8:29 am
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
8:30 - 8:45 am
Dr. Gabriel Hauge
8:46 - 8:48 am
Mr. H. Chapman Rose
Hon. Sherman Adams
8:55 - 9:19 am
The President departed the White House and motored to
the Statler Hotel where he addressed the Citizens for
Eisenhower Committee. Those who accompanied him
were:
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
Hon. James Hagerty
9:22 am
Returned to the White House.
9:34 - 9:45 am
The following West Point Cadets presented the President
with a copy of the 1956 HOWITZER, the yearbook of the
U. S, Military Academy:
2nd Lt. Robert G. Farris
Cadet Brigade Commander
2nd Lt. Michael J. Conrad
Class President, Class of 1956
2nd Lt. Roger R. Redhair
Editor of the Howitzer
Hon. James Hagerty
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
9:45 - 11:30 am
NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL (286th Meeting)
The President
Hon. Richard T. Nixon
Hon. Herbert Hoover, Jr.
Hon. Charles E. Wilson
Hon. Arthur S. Flemming
Hon. George M. Humphrey
Hon, Sinclair Weeks
Hon. Harold E. Stassen
(continued)
THURSDAY, MAY 31, 1956
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9:45 - 11:30 am NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL (continued)
Hon. Percival Brundage
Hon. Lewis L. Strauss
Hon. Val Peterson
Hon. Theodore C. Streibert
Hon. Alan T. Waterman
Admiral Arthur W. Radford
Hon. Allen W. Dulles
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
Hon. Dillon Anderson
Hon. Joseph M. Dodge
Hon. William H. Jackson
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
Hon. James S. Lay, Jr.
Hon. S. Everett Gleason
Additional Personnel giving or assisting in presentation to NSC:
Dr. C. C. Furnas, Department of Defense
Mr. Samuel E. Clements, Department of Defense
Mr. Richard Park, Department of Defense
Corporal Philip Kerber, Department of Defense
Sgt. Brading
Mr. Richard Peters
Dr. Samuel Brownell, Director, Office of Education, HEW
Mr. Neal Caruthers, National Science Foundation
Mr. Robert Bowie, Department of State
Mr. Sherman Kent, Central Intelligence Agency
11:30 - 11:40 am
Hon. Richard T. Nixon
Hon. Sherman Adams
11:40 - 11:53 am
Hon. Arthur Summerfield
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
11:53 - 11:55 am
Hon. Arthur Summerfield
11:58 am
The President departed the office and went to the Mansion.
12:30 pm
(LUNCH)
1:02 pm
The President departed the White House and motored to
Burning Tree Country Club.
1:19 pm
Arrived at Burning Tree.
THURSDAY, MAY 31, 1956
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1:40 pm
The President teed off with the following:
Colonel Thomas Belshe
Mr. John McClure
Mr. Robert (Bob) Hatcher
4:57 pm
Completed 18 holes of golf.
5:20 pm
The President departed Burning Tree Country Club and
motored to the White House.
5:44 pm
Arrived at the White House.
6:00 pm
Hon. George M. Humphrey
(Saw the President at the Mansion).
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
FRIDAY, JUNE 1, 1956
8:15 am
The President arrived in the office accompanied by
Captain Richard W. Streiff.
8:20 - 8:28 am
Senator Edward J. Thye
Miss Ruth Marie Peterson
8:29 - 8:33 am
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
8:31 - 8:45 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
8:46 - 8:48 am
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
8:49 - 9:00 am
Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
9:00 - 10:33 am
CABINET MEETING
The President
Hon. I. W. Carpenter, Assistant Secretary of State
Hon. George M. Humphrey
Hon. Charles E. Wilson
Hon. William P. Rogers, Deputy Attorney General
Hon. Arthur Summerfield
Hon. Fred Aandahl, Assistant Secretary of the Interior
Hon. True D. Morse, Under Secretary of Agriculture
Hon. Sinclair Weeks
Hon, James P. Mitchell
Hon. Herold C. Hunt, Under Secretary of HEW
Hon, Percival Brundage
Hon. Arthur Flemming
Hon. Philip Young
Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
Hon. Arthur Burns
Hon, Sherman Adams
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
Hon. Harold Stassen
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
Hon. Gerald Morgan
Hon. Fred Seaton
Hon. Dillon Anderson
Hon. James Hagerty
Hon. Gabriel Hauge
Hon, I. Jack Martin
Hon. Murray Snyder
(continued)
FRIDAY, JUNE 1, 1956
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9:00 - 10:33 am
CABINET MEETING (continued)
Hon. Maxwell M. Rabb
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
Hon. Arthur Minnich
Hon. Bradley Patterson
10:33 - 10:35 am
Hon. James Hagerty
10:40 - 10:45 am
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
10:45 - 10:55 am
Hon. Clarence Randall
Hon. Sherman Adams
11:00 - 11:15 am
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
11:25 - 11:31 am
Mr. William J. Hopkins
11:40 am
The President departed the office and went to the Mansion.
12:30 pm
(LUNCH)
1:12 pm
The President, accompanied by Colonel Walter Tkach,
departed the White House and motored to the Gettysburg
Farm.
3:06 pm
Arrived at the Farm.
3:20 pm
The President, accompanied by Colonel Walter Tkach,
departed the Farm and motored to Little Hunting Creek
Lodge, estate of Mr. Floyd Akers at Thurmont, Md.
4:00 pm
Arrived at Little Hunting Creek Lodge. The President
fished until 6:20 pm, catching three fish.
6:55 pm
The President and Colonel Tkach arrived at the Farm.
8:50 - 9:10 pm
The President and Mrs. Eisenhower walked about the
yard and gardens until 9:10 pm.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 1956
GETTYSBURG, PA.
11:30 am
The President and Mrs. Eisenhower departed the Farm and
motored to the home of General and Mrs. Arthur Nevins,
arriving there at 11:47 am.
12:12 pm
The President and Mrs. Eisenhower departed the home of
General and Mrs. Arthur Nevins and motored to their Farm.
12:28 pm
Arrived at the Farm.
3:15 pm
The President received two quarter horses from the American
Quarter Horse Association. Those who were present were:
Mr. Lester Goodson, President of the American
Quarter Horse Association
Mr. C. W. Cascio, J-3 Ranch, Magnolia, Texas
(The horse presented to the President is named
"Doodle De Doo"; the horse presented for David
Eisenhower is named "Sporty Miss". Also
presented were two saddles, two halters, two
blankets, two pads, two curry combs and brushes,
a hoff clipper and hoof file.)
(Pictures were taken on the occasion).
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
SUNDAY, JUNE 3, 1956
GETTYSBURG, PA.
9:00 am
The President rode his horse "Doodle De Doo" until 9:15.
10:50 am
The President walked about the farm until 11:25 am.
1:55 pm
The President chipped golf balls until 2:15 pm.
2:37 pm
Mrs. Kendall Lynch, Mrs. A. A. Hansen, and daughter
Sue Ann Hansen were guests at the Farm.
3:56 pm
Mrs. George Allen, Mrs. Cane, and Mrs. Helen Brewer
were guests at the Farm,
4:12 pm
General and Mrs. Arthur Nevins were guests at the Farm.
4:45 pm
The President and General Nevins walked from the house to
the pond, returning at 5:17 pm. They then inspected the barn
until 6:20 pm, when they returned to the house.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
MONDAY, JUNE 4, 1956
8:06 am
The President departed the Gettysburg Airport
and was airborne for Washington, D. C.
8:45 am
The President arrived at his office at the White House.
8:48 - 8:53 am
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
8:53 - 8:59 am
Mr. William J. Hopkins
9:00 - 9:08 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
9:20 - 9:35 am
Hon. James Hagerty
9:55 - 10:06 am
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
10:07 - 10:14 am
The President received a birthday cake in recognition of
the National School Lunch Program from the following:
Irene Cromer
7th grade student from the Fairview Elementary
School, Fairfax County, Virginia
Jimmie Adcock
6th grade student from the Fairview Elementary
School, Fairfax County, Virginia
The following accompanied the two students:
Mr. Todd Shirley
Principal, Fairview Elementary School
Hon. True D. Morse, Under Secretary of Agriculture
Mr. Roy W. Lennartson, Deputy Administrator,
Agricultural Marketing Service, Department of
Agriculture
Mr. Martin Garber, Director, Food Distribution Division,
Agricultural Marketing Service
(The presentation was in the Conference Room)
10:24 - 10:44 am
Lord Home
British Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations
Ambassador Roger Makins
(Lord Home made a courtesy call on the President).
10:44 - 10:52 am
Rear Admiral Harley Cope, USN (Ret.)
MONDAY, JUNE 4, 1956
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10:52 am
The President departed the White House and motored
to the new AFL-CIO Building where he made an address
on the occasion of the dedication of the new building.
Accompanying the President were:
Hon. James P. Mitchell
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
Hon. James Hagerty
Upon arrival at the AFL-CIO Building, the President was
greeted by the following:
Mr. George Meany, President AFL-CIO
Mr. Harry C. Bates, Vice President AFL-CIO
Mr. Maurice A. Hutcheson, Vice President AFL-CIO
Mr. Jacob Potofsky, Vice President AFL-CIO
Mr. William Schnitzler, Secretary-Treasurer, AFL-CIO
The President was escorted to the speaker's stand by
Mr. George Meany.
Following the President's address, he inspected the large
mural in the lobby of the building, then made an inspection
of the offices on the 8th floor and the Conference Room.
In addition to the above gentlemen, the President was
accompanied by
Mr. Walter Reuther, Vice President, AFL-CIO
Mr. David Dubinsky, Vice President, AFL-CIO
11:35 am
The President returned to the office in the White House.
11:45 am
The President departed the office and went to the Mansion.
1:00 pm
(LUNCH)
1:50 pm
The President returned to the office.
1:50 - 2:00 pm
The President posed for pictures in his office, taken by
Paul Begley, PHC, USN.
2:00 - 2:05 pm
Hon. James Hagerty
2:05 - 2:47 pm
Hon. Dan thornton
2:45 - 2:47 pm
Hon. Sherman Adams
(Joined Governor Thornton in the President's office)
2:48 - 3:00 pm
Hon. Gerald Morgan
MONDAY, JUNE 4, 1956
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3:58 - 4:08 pm Hon. Wilton B. Persons
4:24 - 4:27 pm
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
4:50 pm
The President went to the South Grounds to hit golf balls.
5:34 pm
The President returned to the office.
6:15 pm
Departed the office and went to the Mansion.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
TUESDAY, JUNE 5, 1956
8:02 am
The President arrived at the office.
8:06 - 8:08 am
Mr. William J. Hopkins
8:30 - 8:54 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
Hon. Bryce Harlow
Hon. I. Jack Martin
Hon, Arthur Summerfield
Hon. Gerald Morgan
8:54 - 8:56 am
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
9:00 - 10:40 am
LEGISLATIVE LEADERS
Hon. William F. Knowland
Hon. Styles Bridges
Hon. Leverett Saltonstall
Hon. Frank Carlson
Hon. Joseph W. Martin, Jr.
Hon. Charles A. Halleck
Hon. Leslie Arends
Hon. Leo E. Allen
Hon. Edward H. Rees
Hon. Arthur Summerfield
Hon. Percival Brundage
Hon. Herbert Hoover, Jr.
Hon. John B. Hollister
Hon. Robert Hill, Assistant Secretary of State
Hon. E. Perkins McGuire
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Mutual
Defense Assistance Programs
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
Hon. James Hagerty
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
Hon. Gerald Morgan
Hon. I. Jack Martin
Hon. Bryce Harlow
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
Hon. Earle Chesney
Hon. Homer Gruenther
Hon. Murray Snyder
Hon. Edward McCabe
TUESDAY, JUNE 5, 1956
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10:42 - 11:08 am
Mr. Timothy J. Murphy
Commander-in-Chief, Veterans of Foreign Wars
Mr. Omar B. Ketchum
Director, National Legislative Service, Veterans of
Foreign Wars
Mr. Matthew J. Kane
Personal Representative of Mr. Murphy in Eastern Area
Hon. Earle Chesney
11:08 - 11:09 am
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
11:09 - 11:26 am
Hon. Dillon Anderson
Hon. James Lay (out at 11:17 am)
11:26 - 11:34 am
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
11:40 am
The President departed the office and went to the Mansion.
12:30 pm
(LUNCH)
1:02 pm
The President, accompanied by General Howard McC. Snyder,
departed the White House and motored to Burning Tree
Country Club.
1:23 pm
Arrived at Burning Tree.
1:45 pm
The President teed off with the following:
Congressman Leslie Arends
Congressman Charles Halleck
Colonel Thomas Belshe
5: 2 pm
The President departed Burning Tree and motored
to the White House. He was accompanied by General Snyder.
5:35 pm
Arrived at the White House.
6:00 - 7:30 pm
The following met with the President in the Cabinet Room
re Mutual Security Program:
(HOUSE BI-PARTISAN
Hon. John Foster Dulles
MEETING)
Hon. Robert C. Hill, Assistant Secretary of State for
Congressional Relations
Hon. Arthur Radford
Hon. John Hollister
Hon. E. Perkins McGuire, Deputy Assistant Secretary
of Defense for Mutual Defense Assistance Programs
(continued)
TUESDAY, JUNE 5, 1956
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6:00 pm
Meeting in the Cabinet Room re Mutual Security Program
(Continued):
Hon. Carl Albert
Hon. Leslie Arends
Hon. Robert Chiperfield
Hon. Thomas S. Gordon
Hon. Charles Halleck
Hon. Joseph Martin
Hon. John McCormack
Hon. Sam Rayburn
Hon. James Richards
Hon. John Vorys
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon, Wilton B. Persons
Hon. James Hagerty
Hon. Bryce Harlow
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 1956
8:15 am
The President arrived in the office, accompanied by
Captain Richard W. Streiff.
8:15 - 8:17 am
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
Hon. Murray Snyder
8:17 - 8:20 am
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
8:20 - 8:23 am
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
Hon. James Hagerty
8:23 - 8:26 am
Hon. James Hagerty
8:29 - 8:31 am
Hon. Dillon Anderson
8:31 - 9:03 am
Hon. Arthur Radford
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
9:08 - 9:15 am
H. E. Dr. Hollington K. Tong, newly appointed
Chinese Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Hon. Victor Purse
(Ambassador Tong presented his credentials to the
President)
9:15 - 9:27 am
Hon. Gabriel Hauge
9:30 - 9:42 am
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
9:50 - 10:29 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
Hon. Gerald Morgan
Hon. James Hagerty
Hon. Gabriel Hauge
Hon. Bryce Harlow
Hon. I. Jack Martin
Hon. Howard Pyle
Hon. Murray Snyder
(Pre-Press Conference Briefing)
10:30 - 11:09 am
PRESS CONFERENCE
11:18 am
The President departed the office and went to the Mansion.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 1956
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12:00 Noon
The President and Mrs. Eisenhower greeted the
following group of Young Republican leaders who
came to Washington to attend a Young Republican
Leadership School:
ARIZONA
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Neil J. DiCapua
William B. Seaton
Charles P. Smith
Evelyn De Jong
Richard A. Kleindient
Lollie E. Porterfield
Betty Rockwell
Donald Duvall
Ann Holt
ALABAMA
Margaret Taylor
Homer A. Jackson, Jr.
Randy Russell
Roy E. Williams
Ann Fadley
Betty Fadley
CALIFORNIA
James Stenger
D. Sumner Mann
Paul W. Schuck
Lyman Johnson
William B. Seaton
F. Ray Bryant
Grace Werner
James Aller Hurst
Tim Hay
FLORIDA
Virginia Savell
John Palmer
Robert S. Phillips
John Rousselot
GEORGIA
Tom E. Smith
Carl J. Woolf
Harbin M. King
COLORADO
Elsie F. Gilham
Bob Avrett
Roy Foster
Louann Eakins
Joyce I. Bovik
IDAHO
Lawrence L. Fenton
Nancy Jane Leek
John D. Farr
Charles D. Byrne
ILLINOIS
Sherman T. Brown
Robert Michel
Roy M. Bistline
Raymond W. Seefeldt
Mrs. Roy M. Bistline
Dale McAllister
Ernest P. Abelson
CONNECTICUT
Charles E. Gaines
Janice M. Erdin
Sue Minas
Wilma M. Older
Joyce M. Congua
Judy Jean Metricles
DELAWARE
Arthur J. Patterson
Leonard W. Brinton, Sr.
Glen L. Peglau
Frank D. Kenney
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 1956
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12:00 Noon
Young Republican Leaders (continued):
ILLINOIS (continued)
MICHIGAN (continued)
Cynthia Monroe
Douglas Brown
George Hansen
Dan Jackson
Elroy C. Sandquist, Jr.
Calvin A. Campbell, Jr.
Virginia B. Kenney
Charmaine Mohr
MINNESOTA
Maurice W. Coburn
George Hansen
Marian G. Davidson
INDIANA
John C. Mowrer
MISSOURI
Loren W. Wells
IOWA
Clarold E. Rogers
NEBRASKA
Frances R. Hawler
KANSAS
Barbara Botsch
Philip K. Kline
Don A. Boyd
KENTUCKY
NEW HAMPSHIRE
Dorothy M. Jennings
Richard G. Slayton
Winfield G. Leathers
Walter R. Peterson, Jr.
Janice E. Shuffett
NEW JERSEY
MARYLAND
William T. Kendall
Georgia LeGrand Johnson
Jack H. Van Gelder
Mrs. Betty Crouch
Donald T. Burger
Shirley A. Camus
Ruth H. Porter
Barbara J. Burger
MASSACHUSETTS
Florence M. Cope
Harry M. Olsen, Jr.
Kathryn C. Webber
John R. Thomson
William A. Snyder
Joseph W. Young, III
Janet Maryott
Mrs. Pauline C. Quinn
MICHIGAN
Mary Bosco
NEW YORK
Suzette Dauch
John R. Ahlgren
Dave Ziegenbein
Walter H. Blume
John Patrick Nazer
Robert H. Chodrsch
John A. Gibbs
Herbert B. Greene
Betty Hillcoat
Kenneth E. Roberts
Charles A. Nuttall
Robert C. Rosenberg
Mary Kathleen McLean
Gene Weber
Roger D. Buston
Thomas J. Hall
Fred Lichtman
Molly Mae Price
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 1956
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12:00 Noon
Young Republican Leaders (continued):
NEW YORK (continued)
PENNSYLVANIA
Edna G. Sessons
Lamar E. Chamberlain
Rachel G. Sessons
Robert L. Chamberlain
Nancy Saxton
Glen T. Edwards
Mr. and Mrs. A.J. Calace
Donald E. Frankenfield
Roland T. Nelson
David R. Scott
Ann Ecker
Randall Shores
William P.T. Grady
OKLAHOMA
NEW MEXICO
Larry Stauber
Tom R. DeGregori
SOUTH DAKOTA
NORTH CAROLINA
W. L. Jorgenson
Mona Eileen Abbott
TENNESSEE
OHIO
Lester H. Brenner
John M. Ashbrook
William C. Carter, Jr.
John P. Courtright, Jr.
Ira T. Collins, Jr.
Dorothy Jean Schroeppl
Jerry Kent
Robert A. Sherman
W. K. Moody
John J. Waldeck
Lee N. Ruch
Don P. Baker
O. M. Spence
Robert G. Bayley
James M. Bane, Jr.
UTAH
Vivian J. DeLisa
Belva Barlow
Nanette C. Emery
W. R. Petersen
John R. Evans
John J. Grasso
VERMONT
Paul Hanke
C. Douglas Cairns
Janet E. Hill
Warren E. Myers
VIRGINIA
Ethel E. Parker
John A. Finken
Clareda A. Prose
Dianna Euksuzian
Shirley Schley
Sandra Howell
Harry W. Stroud
Paul Johnson
Sandra Luck
OREGON
Philip Wade
Donald H. Pearlman
Duane L. Patterson
Curtis R. Layne
PENNSYLVANIA
Margaret Ann Masters
WASHINGTON
Robert P. Turnley
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 1956
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12:00 Noon
Young Republican Leaders (continued):
WEST VIRGINIA
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
John Jacobs
(additional names)
Thomas R. Broyles
Mary Gesler
June S. Stout
Fred Dixon
Mrs. John L. McIntire
Al Rojohn
Mr. John L. McIntire
Nancy Fisher
Ann Rutherford
Walter Jubien
Tom Wilkinson
Sandra Winne
Jack Mankey
WYOMING
William H. Budd, Jr.
12:15 pm
Hon. Gerald Morgan
(Went to the Mansion to have Bills signed)
12:46 pm
The President, accompanied by General Howard McC. Snyder,
departed the White House and motored to MATS Terminal.
1:00 pm
Arrived at MATS Terminal.
1:06 pm
The President and General Snyder were airborne for
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
1:31 pm
Arrived at the Gettysburg Airport, then motored to the Farm.
1:45 pm
Arrived at the Farm where the President greeted the
following guests:
General Arthur Nevins
Mr. Allan Ryan
Mr. Lee Leechman
Mr. P. Harry Bailey
Mr. George Currie
The President and his guests entered the station wagon and
toured the Farm.
2:55 pm
Arrived back at the main residence,
3:40 pm
The President, accompanied by General Howard McC. Snyder,
departed the Farm and motored to the Gettysburg Airport.
3:56 pm
Airborne for Washington, D. C.
4:24 pm
The President and General Snyder arrived at MATS Terminal.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 1956
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4:38 pm
The President returned to the office at the White House,
4:43 - 4:51 pm Hon. James Hagerty
5:05 pm
The President went to the Mansion.
7:00 pm
(The President and Mrs. Eisenhower had the following
personal friends for dinner at the White House) :
(Mr. and Mrs. Louis Marx
)
(Mr. and Mrs. David Marx
)
OFF THE RECORD
(Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Schoo)
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 1956
7:57 am
The President arrived in the office.
8:05 - 8:15 am
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
8:15 - 8:20 am
Mr. William J. Hopkins
8:30 - 8:56 am
Hon. Herbert Brownell, Jr.
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Gerald Morgan
9:00 - 10:55 am
NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL
The President
Hon. Richard T. Nixon
Hon. John Foster Dulles
Hon. Reuben Robertson, Jr., Acting Secretary of Defense
Hon. Arthur S. Flemming, Director, ODM
Hon, George M. Humphrey, Secretary of the Treasury
Hon. Herbert Hoover, Jr., Department of State
Hon. Herbert Brownell, Jr., the Attorney General
Hon, Harold E. Stassen, Sepcial Assistant to the
President for Disarmament
Hon. Percival Brundage, Director, Bureau of the Budget
Hon. Lewis L. Strauss, Chairman, AEC
Hon. Theodore C. Streibert, Director, USIA
Admiral Arleigh A. Burke, Chief of Naval Operations
General Nathan B. Twining, Chief of Staff, U. S. Air Force
General Randolph McC. Pate, Commandant,
U. S. Marine Corps
Hon. Wilbur M. Brucker, Secretary of the Army
Hon. Charles S. Thomas, Secretary of the Navy
Hon. Donald A. Quarles, Secretary of the Air Force
Hon. Robert R. Bowie, Department of State
Hon. Walter S. Robertson, Department of State
Hon. Gordon Gray, Department of Defense
Mr. Jarold A. Kieffer, ODM
Mr. Andrew H. Overby, Department of the Treasury
Mr. William E. Foley, Department of Justice
Mr. C. E. Nelson, Atomic Energy Commission
Maj. Gen. F. W. Farrell, USA, Joint Chiefs of Staff
Mr. Robert Amory, Jr., CIA
Hon. Allen W. Dulles, Director, CIA
(continued)
THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 1956
Page 2
9:00 - 10:55 am
NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL (continued):
Mr. Edmond C. Hutchinson, Bureau of the Budget
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
Hon. Dillon Anderson
Hon. William H. Jackson
Hon, James S. Lay, Jr.
Hon. S. Everett Gleason
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
10:55 - 11:04 am
Hon. Reuben Robertson
11:05 - 11:17 am
Hon. Herbert Brownell, Jr.
11:20 - 11:30 am
Mr. Clarence J. Schoo
11:35 - 11:41 am
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
11:43 am
The President departed the office and went to the Mansion.
1:00 pm
(LUNCH)
1:20 - 1:32 pm
The President returned to the office.
1:32 - 1:37 pm
Hon. James Hagerty
1:45 - 2:25 pm
Colonel George Lincoln
Professor of Social Sciences, U. S. Military Academy
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
2:30 - 3:05 pm
Hon. Harold Stassen
Hon. Sherman Adams
3:05 - 3:12 pm
Hon. James Hagerty
3:00 - 3:30 pm
Dr. Charles Mayo
3:22 - 3:24 pm
Hon. James Hagerty
(Joined Dr. Mayo in the President's office)
3:33 - 4:15 pm
Hon. Harry Cain
Subversive Activities Control Board
Hon. Gerald Morgan
THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 1956
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4:15 - 4:24 pm
Hon. Percival F. Brundage
Mr. A. R. Jones, Bureau of the Budget
4:20 - 4:21 pm
Hon. James Hagerty
4:35 - 5:05 pm
Hon. John Foster Dulles
5:05 - 5:12 pm
Hon. Gerald Morgan
5:15 - 5:35 pm
The President and Mr. Clarence J. Schoo
hit golf balls on the South Grounds.
5:35 pm
The President returned to the office.
5:40 pm
Departed the office and went to the Mansion.
6:55 pm
The President departed the White House and
motored to the Sheraton Park Hotel to attend the
dinner of the White House News Photographers
Association,
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
FRIDAY, JUNE 8, 1956
All appointments cancelled this date
due to the President's illness.
1:28 pm
The President departed the White House and
went via ambulance to the Walter Reed Army
Hospital.
SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 1956
The President underwent an operation for Ileitis at
approximately 2:00 A. M., Saturday, June 9, 1956,
at Walter Reed Army Hospital, Washington, D. C.
BI-PARTISAN LEGISLATIVE LEADERS MEETING
JUNE 12, 1956 - 8:30 - 10:10 A. M.
(TUESDAY)
Senator William F. Knowland
Senator Harry F. Byrd
Senator Styles Bridges
Senator Leverett Saltonstall
Senator H. Alexander Smith
Senator Lyndon B. Johnson
Senator Richard B. Russell
Senator Walter F. George
Senator Theodore F. Green
Hon. John Foster Dulles
Admiral Arthur Radford
Hon. John B. Hollister
Mr. R. Ammi Cutter, Consultant to the Director of ICA
Mr. E. Perkins McGuire, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense
for Mutual Defense Assistance Programs
Assistant Secretary of Defense W. J. McNeil
Mr. Robert C. Hill, Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional
Relations
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
Hon. I. Jack Martin
Hon. Bryce Harlow
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
Hon. Murray Snyder
Hon. Gerald Morgan
Hon. Homer Gruenther
Hon. Earle D. Chesney
(The meeting was re Mutual Security)
NOTE:
This meeting had been scheduled prior to the President's illness.
In the President's absence, Governor Adams presided.
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
TUESDAY, JUNE 12, 1956
WALTER REED HOSPITAL
10:53 - 11:02 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 1956
11:07 - 11:31 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Gerald Morgan
Hon. James Hagerty
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
11:12 - 11:31 am
Mrs. Ann Whitman
THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 1956
9:50 - 10:01 am
H. E. Konrad Adenauer
Chancellor of the West German Federal Republic
Hon. John Foster Dulles
Mr. Eugene Weber
Hon. James Hagerty
Colonel Robert L. Schulz
FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 1956
10:02 - 10:18 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. James Hagerty
Dr. Howard McC. Snyder
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
Colonel Robert L. Schulz
SATURDAY, JUNE 16, 1956
No appointments. Only family and members of Hospital Staff.
NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL
(288th Meeting)
JUNE 15, 1956, 9:15 am (FRIDAY)
THE VICE PRESIDENT PRESIDING
Hon. John Foster Dulles, The Secretary of State
Hon. Reuben B. Robertson, Acting Secretary of Defense
Hon. Arthur S. Flemming, Director, Office of Defense Mobilization
Hon. George M. Humphrey, Secretary of the Treasury
Hon. Herbert Brownell, Jr., the Attorney General
Hon. Harold E. Stassen, Special Assistant to the President
for Disarmament
Hon. Percival Brundage, Director, Bureau of the Budget
Hon. Lewis L. Strauss, Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission
Hon. Ralph E. Spear, for the Federal Civil Defense Administrator
Hon, Abbott Washburn, Acting Director, U. S. I. A.
Hon. John B. Hollister, Director, International Cooperation
Administration
Hon, J. Edgar Hoover, Jr., Chairman Indepartmental Intelligence
Conference
Hon. J. Walter Yeagley, Chairman, Indepartmental Committee on
Internal Security
Hon. Robert Bowie, U. S, Department of State
Hon. Wilbur M. Brucker, Secretary of the Army
Hon. Charles S. Thomas, Secretary of the Navy
Hon. Donald A. Quarles, Secretary of the Air Force
Admiral Arthur W. Radford, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
General Maxwell D. Taylor, Chief of Staff, U. S. Army
Admiral Arleigh A. Burke, Chief of Naval Operations
General Nathan B. Twining, Chief of Staff, U. S. Air Force
General Randolph McC. Pate, Commandant, U. S. Marine Corps
Hon. Allen W. Dulles, Director of Central Intelligence
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
Hon. Dillon Anderson
Hon. Joseph M. Dodge
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
Hon. James S. Lay, Jr.
Hon. S. Everett Gleason
Mr. Robert Sprague, N. S. C. Consultant
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
SUNDAY, JUNE 17, 1956
WALTER REED HOSPITAL
12:22 pm
Major and Mrs. John Eisenhower
David Eisenhower
Barbara Ann Eisenhower
Susan Eisenhower
MONDAY, JUNE 18, 1956
9:03 am
Hon. Richard T. Nixon
Hon. John Foster Dulles
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. James Hagerty
Dr. Howard McC. Snyder
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
9:22 am
Hon. Gerald Morgan
10:00 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
12:31 - 12:46 pm
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
TUESDAY, JUNE 19, 1956
9:32 - 10:24 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon, Gerald Morgan
Hon. James Hagerty
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
11:07 - 11:13 am
Chief U. E. Baughman
3:48 pm
David Eisenhower
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 1956
9:27 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Gerald Morgan
Hon. James Hagerty
Colonal Andrew J. Goodpaster
Mr. Wayne Hawks
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 1956 (continued)
9:45 am
Hon. James Hagerty
Mrs. Ann Whitman
11:21 am
French Foreign Minister Christian Pineau
Hon. John Foster Dulles
Hon. James Hagerty
THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 1956
11:42 am - 12:26 pm
Hon. Sherman Adams
11:43 am - 12:26 pm
Hon. Gerald Morgan
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
Mr. Wayne Hawks
12:15 am - 12:26 pm
Mrs. Ann Whitman
3:49 - 5:07 pm
General Alfred Gruenther
6:14 - 7:52 pm
General Alfred Gruenther
Dr. and Mrs. Leonard Heaton
Mrs. Eisenhower
Dr. Blades
FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 1956
9:40 - 10:14 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Gerald Morgan
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
Hon. Murray Snyder
Mr. Wayne Hawks
10:08 - 10: 19 am
Mrs. Ann Whitman
3:31 - 4:25 pm
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
5:35 - 7:19 pm
Dr. Milton Eisenhower
CABINET MEETING
THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 1956
9:00 A. M.
The Vice President (presiding)
Hon. Herbert Hoover, Jr., Under Secretary of State
Hon. Charles E. Wilson
Hon. Reuben Robertson, Deputy Secretary of Defense
Hon. Herbert Brownell
Hon. Arthur Summerfield
Hon. Fred Seaton
Hon. Ezra Taft Benson
Hon. James P. Mitchell
Hon. Sinclair Weeks
Hon. Marion B. Folsom
Hon. Harold E. Stassen
Hon. Percival Brundage
Mr. A. R. Jones, Deputy Director, Bureau of the Budget
Hon. Philip Young
Hon. Arthur Flemming
Hon. Arthur Burns
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
Hon. Gerald Morgan
Hon. Gabriel Hauge
Hon. I. Jack Martin
Hon. Kevin McCann
Hon. Murray Snyder
Hon. Maxwell Rabb
Hon. William Jackson
Hon. Bradley Patterson
Hon. Arthur Minnich
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 1956
WALTER REED HOSPITAL
10:05 - 11:00 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. James Hagerty
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
Hon. Murray Snyder
Mrs. Ann Whitman
Mr. Wayne Hawks
SUNDAY, JUNE 24, 1956
9:30 - 9:59 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. James Hagerty
Dr. Milton Eisenhower
General Alfred Gruenther
(Visited with the President during the afternoon)
MONDAY, JUNE 25, 1956
9:48 - 10:27 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
9:48 - 10:06 am
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
9:54 - 10:32 am
Hon. Gerald Morgan
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
Mr. Wayne Hawks
10:34 - 10:36 am
Mrs. Ann Whitman
Hon. Gabriel Hauge
TUESDAY, JUNE 26, 1956
No appointments this day.
LEGISLATIVE LEADERS MEETING
JUNE 26, 1956, 8:30 A. M.
(TUESDAY)
The Vice President
Senator William F. Knowland
Senator Leverett Saltonstall
Senator Styles Bridges
Congressman Joseph Martin
Congressman Charles Halleck
Congressman Leslie Arends
Congressman Leo Allen
Hon. Maurice Stans, Post Office Department
Mr. Harry Brookshire, Post Office Department
Hon. Marion B. Folsom
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
Hon. Gerald Morgan
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
Hon. Bryce Harlow
Hon, I. Jack Martin
Hon. Kevin McCann
Hon. Earle D. Chesney
Hon. Homer Gruenther
Hon. Murray Snyder
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27, 1956
WALTER REED HOSPITAL
9:53 - 10:33 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
Hon. Gerald Morgan
Hon. James Hagerty
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
Mr. Wayne Hawks
Mrs. Ann Whitman
THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 1956
3:48 pm
Mr. Aksel Nielsen
3:55 - 4:36 pm
Hon. Charles E. Wilson
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
Hon. James Hagerty
FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 1956
9:36 - 10:15 am
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. James Hagerty
Hon. Gerald Morgan
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
Mrs. Ann Whitman
4:33 - 4:45 pm
Hon. Richard T. Nixon
Hon. James Hagerty
4:33 - 5:16 pm
Hon. Gerald Morgan
Mr. Wayne Hawks
6:25 pm
Mrs. Paul A. Hodgson
(Widow of the President's roommate at West Point)
Major and Mrs. John Eisenhower
General and Mrs. Leonard Heaton
General and Mrs. Howard McC. Snyder
Dr. and Mrs. Ravdin
NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL
THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 1956
9:00 A. M. (289th Meeting)
The Vice President presiding
Hon. John Foster Dulles, the Secretary of State
Hon, Herbert Hoover, Jr., Under Secretary of State
Hon. Reuben Robertson, Deputy Secretary of Defense
Hon. Arthur S. Flemming, Director, Office of Defense Mobilization
Hon. George M. Humphrey, Secretary of the Treasury
Hon. Herbert Brownell, Jr., the Attorney General
Hon. Sinclair Weeks, Secretary of Commerce
Hon. Harold E. Stassen, Special Assistant to the President for Disarmament
Hon. Percival F. Brundage, Director, Bureau of the Budget
Hon. John B. Hollister, Director, ICA
Hon. Theodore C. Streibert, Director, U. S. I. A.
Hon. James R. Durfee, Chairman, Civil Aeronautics Board
Hon. J. Edgar Hoover, Chairman, Interdepartmental Intel ligence Conference
Mr. J. Walter Yeagley, Chairman, Interdepartmental Committee on
Internal Security
Mr. Victor Cooley, ODM
Admiral Arthur W. Radford, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
Hon. Allen Dulles, Director, Central Intelligence
Hon. Dillon Anderson, Special Assistant to the President
Hon. William H. Jackson, Special Assistant to the President
Hon. James S. Lay, Jr., Executive Secretary, NSC
Hon, S. Everett Gleason, Deputy Executive Secretary, NSC
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
CABINET MEETING
FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 1956
10:00 A. M.
Hon. Richard T. Nixon (Presiding)
Hon. John Foster Dulles
Hon. W. Randolph Burgess
Hon. Reuben Robertson
Hon. Herbert Brownell
Hon. Arthur Summerfield
Hon. Fred Seaton
Hon. Ezra Taft Benson
Hon. James P. Mitchell
Hon. Sinclair Weeks
Hon. Marion B. Folsom
Hon. Harold Stassen
Hon. Percival Brundage
Hon. Philip Young
Hon. Arthur Flemming
Dr. Arthur Burns
Hon. Sherman Adams
Hon. Wilton B. Persons
Hon. Maxwell Rabb
Hon. William H. Jackson
Hon. Howard Pyle
Hon. Dillon Anderson
Hon. Meyer Kestnbaum
Hon. Bernard M. Shanley
Hon. Gabriel Hauge
Hon. Murray Snyder
Hon. I. Jack Martin
Colonel Andrew J. Goodpaster
Hon. Gerald Morgan
Hon. Arthur Kimball
Mr. Jarold Kieffer
Mr. Albert Toner
Hon. Bradley Patterson
THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS
SATURDAY, JUNE 30, 1956
8:54 am
The President and Mrs. Eisenhower departed the
President's suite at Walter Reed Hospital and
proceeded to their car for the drive to the Gettysburg
Farm. As the President left the building, he shook
hands with Brig. General Jack Schwartz, Deputy
Commander of Walter Reed Hospital.
9:00 am
Departed the Hospital and motored to the Gettysburg
Farm.
11:03 am
Arrived at the Gettysburg Farm.