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THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON June 30, 1950 NOTE FOR MR. HECHLER I would very much appreciate your reaction about the question of public hearing VS. executive session mentioned in the attached memorandum. S. J.S. S.J.S. 7/3/50 Steve - IT would seem to me that the entire hearings should be in executive session. Ido not believe there would be much public, and it would lay no open to the change advantage in having The medical testimony that there is no consistent policy here on recente US. public hearings. the The medics may well say something sensational which will blow This up bigger than it really is. you may деба politically. executive. d hink the safe thing is to keep en all statement from the medics which could be used against us K.W.H. K. w.it.