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    "ocrText": "THE WHITE HOUSE\nGETTYSBURG\nPRESS AND RADIO CONFERENCE --\nWITH GENERAL NATHAN F. TWINING, AIR FORCE CHIEF OF STAFF\nThursday, July 5, 1956, 1.50 p.m., e.d.s.t.\nMR.HAGERTY: Two things before we start. Let us have\n6.\nthe usual agreement that as long as we are here, nobody tries\nto telephone out or move copy, except the photographers can\nshoot a plate out.\nThe group I think you know all the group here with\nme. Of course, General Twining, Secretary Quarles, and\nLieutenant General Frank F. Everest, who is Deputy Chief of\nStaff for Operations of the Air Force and who accompanied General\nTwining to Moscow.\nSecretary Wilson, Admiral Radford, Governor Adams,\nJerry Persons, myself and these other three gentlemen were with\nthe President for an hour and 20 minutes. They met in his den\nat his home -- his farm at Gettysburg. And General Twining\nreported to the President on his trip to Moscow.\nThere are several other things that I have to tell you\nbefore we start this. General Twining is going to testify before\nthe Congress, and consequently there are some matters that he\ncannot tell you at this time, but he has to make a report, first,\nto Congress. Since he came here, however, to report to the\nPresident, I told him of your interest in meeting with him\nbriefly and he said that he would come down and make a brief\nreport to you on the trip. But he still has to testify before\nthe House -- before the Senate, I believe, the Senate Committee --\nand he has to make a fuller report and more in detail to them\nprior -- to them, rather than he can to you today. Maybe when\nthat report is finished to the Congress, then he may also be able\nto talk a little more freely on some of these other matters, but\nhe has to report there first.\nSo now, without any further\nQ. Jim, may I interrupt just a second -- is that\nbefore the Symington Committee, or Appropriations, or what?\nMR. HAGERTY: Either Armed Services or the Symington\nCommittee, he does not know which.\nQ. That is the Subcommittee of the Armed Services?\nMR. HAGERTY: That's right, or it may be the full\nArmed Services Committee.\nSo now, if I may, I would like to turn this over to\nGeneral Twining, who will give you a brief report of his visit.\nGENERAL TWINING: As I told the press yesterday when\nI\nlanded at the airport, that there are no experts on the Soviet\nUnion or the Soviet Air Force. And after our short, well-\ncontrolled, directed trip over there of eight days, me and my\ngroup are certainly not qualified as any kind of expert.\nI do want to say that the trip was very profitable.\nWe got quite a bit out of it. The Soviet people treated us very\nfine and entertained us wherever we went very lavishly.\nBut you must remember that on a trip of this nature,\nthey showed us just what they wanted us to see. Nothing else.\nAnd I repeat again, it was very tightly controlled."
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