Memorandum of Conversation with Secretary of State Dean Acheson and President Harry S. Truman
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E.O. 12065, Sec. 3-402
State Dept. Guideline, June 12, 1979
151
By NLT HC
NARS, Date 2-20-H
May 1, 1952
MEMORANDUM OF CONVERSATION WITH THE PRESIDENT
Item 1.
Congressman Walter
I explained to the President the unenviable position
in which the State Department found itself regarding the
Director for PICMME. The President was disturbed at
the problem which his two conversations had created.
He did not have a clear recollection of the exact course
of his conversation with Congressman Walter, although
he did remember having it and did remember the
discussion of Mr. Gibson, but thought he had merely
taken the recommendation under consideration. Later on,
Mr. Dawson and Mr. Connelly had persuaded him that the
Corkery appointment was the wiser one.
The President asked me if I had a solution. He thought
that it was going to be necessary and possible to work with
the Walter bill and he did not wish unnecessarily to
antagonize Congressman Walter.
I informed the President of Mr. Warren's reserva-
tions about Mr. Corkery's acceptability to the other nations
involved and his fears that they would not reply to the
inquiry, and that the whole operation of the organization
might be endangered. I suggested that it might be desirable,
since a week had gone by without a reply, to consider
accepting Mr. Walter's recommendation.
The President said he would leave the matter entirely
in my hands; I was to do what I thought was right, and he would
inform Mr. Dawson and Mr. Connelly of this decision.
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