Memorandum of Conversation with Secretary of State Dean Acheson and President Harry S. Truman

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SECRET 7 January 27, 1949. MEETING WITH THE PRESIDENT Item No. 1 de jure recognition of Israel and Transjordan. The President approved the memorandum on de jure recognition of Israel and Transjordan, copy attached. Please prepare and send to the White House tabs a, b, c, and d. In the future the Secretariat should give me a complete copy for the President's files of every paper which I ask him to approve. Important: In connection with the recognition of Israel, the President requests that he be given twenty- four hours notice, if possible, of the date and hour proposed, inasmuch as he is most anxious to have a close friend of his from Kansas City with him when he makes this announcement. Please do not fail to have. this request carried out. Dean Acheson DECLASSIFIED E. O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or (E) Dept. of State letter, 7-23-25 stane By NLT. HC , NARS Date 4-20-26 SECM DA : be