The President's Day
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President Harry S. Truman. Source: Truman Library

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Connelly Files			Tuesday, April 29, 1947     10:30 am The Secretary of Agriculture [Clinton P. Anderson] (Phoned late yesterday) 10:45 am Mr. Gael Sullivan) (Phoned Mr. Matthew Connelly late yesterday to ask if he could come in today off record) 11:00 am Mrs. Agnes Meyer (Phoned Mr. Matthew Connelly last week to ask for this) 11:15 am Lt. General Hoyt S. Vandenberg Rear Admiral R. H. Hillenkoetter (Arranged by Admiral William D. Leahy) 11:30 am The President signed H. R. 2404, "An Act to Suspend certain import taxes on copper". The following were present: Congressman James T. Patterson, Conn. (R) Congressman Robert A. Grant, Indiana (R) Former Senator John Danaher (Congressman Patterson phoned Mr. Matthew Connelly last week to ask if they might come in when the President signed this Bill) 11:45 am (Mr. George Killion) (Asked Mr. Matthew Connelly for this last week) 12:00 pm The Rt. Hon. the Lord Inverchapel, The Ambassador of Great Britain The Viscount Trenchard (The British Ambassador asked to present Lord Trenchard to the President. Lord Trenchard was virtually the founder and first commander of the Royal Air Force which, as a separate military service under the British Crown, was prototype of other spearate national air forces subsequently created. He was Chief of the Air Staff in the Air Ministry from 1918 until 1929 and subsequently was Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police from 1921 to 1925. Since then he has held no official position under the British Government but has been an active member of the House of Lords. Lord Trenchard is a Director of the British Goodyear Co. and is visiting the United States as the guest of Mr. Litchfield, the chairman of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co.) 12:15 pm Honorable Donald Nelson (Phoned Mr. Matthew Connelly yesterday for this) 12:30 pm Honorable Robert Butler, U. S. Ambassador to Australia 12:45 pm (Mr. Harry Whitney, of Kansas City) (Mr. Joseph Miniace of Kansas City) (Phoned Mr. Matthew Connelly yesterday) 1:00 pm (Lunch) 3:00 pm The Secretary of War [Robert P. Patterson] The Secretary of the Treasury [John W. Snyder] Honorable Dean Acheson, the Under Secretary of State (The President asked them to come in and bring such assistants as they might need, to discuss the dis- posal of surplus foreign currency) 3:30 pm (The President left the White House for the airport, where he welcomed President Aleman of Mexico. [Public Papers: Remarks of Welcome to President Aleman of Mexico at the Washington National Airport] He drove with him to the District Building for presentation by the D. C. Commissioners of the keys to the city; and on to the White House.) 8:00 pm State Dinner for the President of Mexico 8:00 pm DINNER AT THE WHITE HOUSE The President H.E. Miguel Aleman, President of Mexico H.E. Jaime Torres Bodet, Secretary of Finance H.E. Ramon Betata, Secretary of Finance H.E. Antonio Espinosa de los Monteros, Mexican Ambassador to the U.S. H.E. Senor Dr. Luis Quintanilla, Representative to the Pan Am. Union Dr. Jorge Viesca, Private Secretary to the President of Mexico Lt. Gen. Leonardo Ruiz, Military Aide to the President of Mexico Rear Admiral Ignacio Garcia Jurado, Naval Aide to the Pres. of Mexico Dr. Rafael Fuentes, Chief of Protocol The Hon. Senor Don Rafael de la Colina - Mexican Embassy Dr. Enrique Parra, Special Assistant Senor Don Vicente Sanchez Gavito - Mexican Embassy Dr. Carlos Soto Maynez, Personal Physician to President Aleman Major Manuel Martinez Castro, Assistant Military Aide Major Miguel Ramirez Ponce, Assistant Military Aide Captain Alfredo Valdez Flores, Assistant Military Aide The Chief Justice [Fred Vinson] The Speaker [Joseph W. Martin] The Secretary of State [George C. Marshall] Hon. Warren R. Austin The Secretary of the Treasury [John W. Snyder] The Secretary of War [Robert P. Patterson] The Attorney General [Tom C. Clark] The Secretary of the Navy [James Forrestal] The Secretary of the Interior [Julius A. Krug] The Secretary of Agriculture [Clinton P. Anderson] The Secretary of Commerce [W. Averell Harriman] The Secretary of Labor [Lewis B. Schwellenbach] Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg Senator Alben W. Barkley Senator Tom Connally Senator Wallace H. White, Jr. Senator Scott W. Lucas Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz Representative Sam Rayburn Representative Sol Bloom Representative Charles A. Eaton Representative Charles A. Halleck General A. A. Vandergrift Hon. Dean Acheson Hon. Walter Thurston Hon. William Benton Hon. Spruille Braden Hon. John R. Steelman Hon. William D. Hassett Hon. Matthew J. Connelly Hon. Charles G. Ross Hon. Clark M. Clifford Hon. Stanley Woodward Hon. Josephus Daniels Hon. John Russell Young Hon. Lindsay C. Warren Dr. Pedro de Alba Hon. John D. Goodlee Hon. David E. Lilienthal Hon. William McC. Martin, Jr. Mr. J. Edgar Hoover Mr. Thomas H. MacDonald Dr. Fred L. Soper Hon. Edgar E. Witt Mr. Philip L. Graham Dr. Cloyd H. Marvin Mr. B. M. McKelway Mr. John T. O'Rourke Rev. Edmund A. Walsh Mr. Ellis Briggs Mr. Guy Ray Senor Fernando Benitez Mr. Feliz Belair, Jr. Lt. Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway Rear Adm. J. Cary Jones Maj. Gen. Harry H. Vaughan Rear Adm. James H. Foskett

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