Ask the Scholar

{
    "localId": "75849221",
    "label": "Transcript of Princeton Seminar Discussion, Rewrite, Record 1, 2 and 3",
    "core": "doc",
    "dtoType": "document",
    "citationUrl": "https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75849221"
}

{
    "id": "75849221",
    "sourceUrl": "https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75849221",
    "contentType": "document",
    "title": "Transcript of Princeton Seminar Discussion, Rewrite, Record 1, 2 and 3",
    "citationUrl": "https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75849221",
    "collections": [
        "Dean Acheson Papers",
        "Princeton Seminars Files"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/presidential-libraries/truman/653115/1722154-02-01.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/presidential-libraries/truman/653115/1722154-02-01.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/presidential-libraries/truman/653115/1722154-02-01.jpg",
    "imageCount": 20,
    "hasImages": true,
    "source": "import",
    "hasTranscription": false
}

{
    "url": "https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75849221",
    "naId": 75849221,
    "levelOfDescription": "item",
    "productionDates": [
        {
            "day": 2,
            "logicalDate": "1953-07-02",
            "month": 7,
            "year": 1953
        }
    ],
    "recordType": "description",
    "ocrSource": "nara-archive"
}

{
    "seq": 2,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/presidential-libraries/truman/653115/1722154-02-02.jpg",
    "mediaId": "fe3f63443a26a4e6",
    "ocrText": "-\nRewrite, Record 1\n2.\nWe had some further talk. I remember one part\nvery clearly. I said that, although I seemed to\nhave some qualifications in that I had been in the\nDepartment, I didn't feel adequate for a task so\ngreat and so critical. At that point the Presi-\ndent said, \"Dean, I suppose there are 10,000 peo-\nple in the United States who are better qualified\nto be President or Secretary of State than I am or\nyou are. The only difficulty is that we don't\nknow who they are. The fact of the matter is\nthat I have been elected President, and I am\nPresident, and I want you to be Secretary of State.\nI guess that's about where the matter rests.\"\nI\nagreed that it did rest there. He then suggested\nthat I go home and talk with my wife. This I did,\nEx\nSERVICE\"\ncame back the next afternoon, and told him that I\nwould do as he wished.Yl We then entered a conspir-\nacy, which greatly pleased him and, I think, had a\ngood deal to do with the success of our relations\nafterwards. He said he wanted to make an experi-\nment to see whether it was possible in Washington\nto keep something secret. He would like to keep\nthis appointment secret until shortly before his\ninauguration. He wished to do this for several\nreasons. One of them was out of his regard for\nGeneral Marshall, who was ill. I told him this"
}