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Memorandum of Conversation with Secretary of State Dean Acheson and Secretary of Defense George C. Marshall
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STATE GUIDELNE 6-12-79
By NCT we NARS, Date 10-25-79
December 28, 1950
Mr. Acheson spoke to General Marshall this morning about
a suggestion which the General Mad made at the meeting at
Blair House on Tueaday night. The suggestion was that the
President attend the meetings which the Department 1s having
with the Military and with the JCS,
Mr. Acheson said that he had some reservations about
this suggestion and said that the NSC had, in the past, become
a rather large meeting which resembled a town meeting and
he feared If we had the President and other members of the
Cabinet attending the meetings between the Department and
the NME that we would get into the same situation we had been
in before with the NSC. General Marshall agreed with the Sec-
retary that this would be unwise.
The Secretary said that what we should try to do was to get
to the place where the NSC became a place for real discussion
and not just a meeting for approval of papers, etc. He felt that
we should get the NSC so that the meetings were more working
meetings.
General Marshall then mentioned a paper which he had
sent over yesterday to the Department which consisted of some
recommendations made by the JCS for a new diractive to Gen-
eral MacArthur. General Marshall said that he did not want
to hold this up too leng as the JCS were recommending this to
the President and he felt he should not delay in acting on the
JCS recommendations,
During the conversation, General Marshall said that he was
aware of the important political implications of the draft direc-
tive to MacArthur and wanted to get the Secretary's wisdom on it
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but that he felt that it was essential that we move as quickly as
possible on it.
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