Daily Appointment Sheet for President Harry S. Truman

TRUMAN ARCMIVES SPATIONAL RECORDS AND Friday, December 14th: c SERVICE** 10.00 am Cabinet 11.00 am The President presented the D.S.M. to Admiral Ernest J. King - ceremonies in East Room. 11.25 am General George C. Marshall; Hon. Dean Acheson 11.30 am Hon. Edward J. Flynn 11.45 am Senator Brien McMahon, Conn.; Senator Millard E. Tydings, Md.; Senator Warren R. Austin, Vt.; Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg, Mich.; Senator Tom Connall.y, Tex.; Senator Edwin C. Johnson, Colo.; Senator Harry F. Byrd, Va.; Senator Thomas c. Hart, Conn.; Senator Eugene D. Millikin, Colo.; Senator Bourke B. Hickenlooper, Iowa; Senator Richard B. Russell, Ga. (Atomic Energy Committee) 12.00 Dr. Arthur J. Todd, Manager, Washington Office, The First Church of Christ, Scientist. (To discuss certain phases of the social security and universal military training programs - Charlie Ross knows him and recommended the President see) 12.15 pm Mr. Lincoln Filene, of Boston (Arranged through David Niles - Mr. Filene was going to be in city for several days and wanted to call upon the President) 12.30 pm Executive Committee of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, as follows: Mr. John S. Knight, Pres. American Society of Newspaper Editors; Mr. Basil L. Walters Executive Editor, Knight Newspapers; Mr. Roy Roberts, Kansas City Star; Mr. Dwight Young, Dayton Journal; Mr. w.s. Gilmore, Detroit News; Mr. Irwin Canham, Christian Science Monitor; Mr. Nathaniel Howard, Cleveland News; Mr. Dwight Marbin, Troy Times Record; Mr. David Lawrence, United States News; Mr. Alexander Jones, Washington Post; Mr. Ben McKelway, Washington Star. (According to Mr. Ross, who arranged this, these men requested the appointment on the ground that maybe the President has something he would like to communicate to them) 12.40 pm Brig. Gen. W.A. Danielson, Memphis (To shake hands) 12.45 pm Hon. and Mrs. Phil J. Welch, Mayor of St. "Joseph, Missouri; Miss Eleanor Welch; Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Boyle. (Has been in New York or is on way there (cannot tell from correspondence) to attend Conference of Mayors, and asked to call upon the President while in East) 12.50 pm Honorable Ben F. Stapleton, Mayor of Denver