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3/14/54: Reel 7, .rack 2, C
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MR. ACHESON:
I remember he said something, but I can it recall what it was.
MR. JESSUP:
He came up to you after you had made this exposition about the American
position on North Africa, and it had entirely changed the whole attitude
of the group. And he said, "When I am out of the government and back
in business, and you are out of government and back in your law practice,
will you be my lawyer?"
MR. ACHESON:
Yes, that. Well, after these meetings in Paris, we had some
more talk before we left about the off-shore procurement program, which
was in its chronic state of confusion; and I don't think we had con-
tributed to the confusion, but we didn 't detract much from it. And then
TRUMAN,
ARCHIVES& NATIONAL RECORDS I
we came back to Washington. Very promptly after our return, the President
sent the treaty, the contractual relation with Germany and the NATO pro-
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tocol up to the Senate, and it was ratified with surprising ease and very
quickly indeed.
MR. NITZE:
The first, not the second, wasn't it? Was the NATO formula also ratified?
MR. ACHESON:
Yes Both of them.
MR. ACHESON:
0h, I'm sorry; I don't mean the status of forces; I do mean the security
exchanges between EDC and NATO. And this again was an expression of a
thing which impressed me all the way through this. I think the failure
to understand it is one of the difficulties of the present administration--
that rows between the Congress and the Chief Executive I think have com-
paratively little to do with the success of the Executive if it is vigo-
rous and forcefull in getting legislation, treaties and other things
through. Now I don't mean that is never true; and when you get into a
highly controversial field like the Far East, it was of tremendous help
to have bipartisan support. But here is something which could quite
easily worry people who were subject to worry, just about to have political
conventions, the heat of the campaign; this was getting on; President
Truman was through; I was very unpopular; and here you send up a major
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treaty and don' have any trouble with it at all, II you just stand right
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