Transcript of Princeton Seminar Discussion, Record 1

Record 1 Page 2 spoke for à great many others and the first thing he knew it was out. So we then agreed that I would speak only to my wife and to my two senior partners, and he mr. LJUETT , Qunual Marshall & this learh Chefford. would talk only with We both did that ahd the result of this the innocument when thing was that it was quite unexpected/xxit it was anounced on January 7th. spoke of iton The President was very much pleased with this and a good many occasions after- In the years that followed our relations fure based ufon the mutual wards, we would do things which in due course which he was willing confidence Hat we could iach keep A to let me try out because he thought that I could / du things secret, if I wanted to. would like to say a word or two about my previous relations with Mr. Truman, The first time I ever saw Mr. Truman was when he was Vice President. and I think it was in February 1945 and it came about in a rather interesting way. At that time I was Assistant Secretary in charge of congressional relations and we were preparing the San Francisco conference. Senator McCarran was Chairman of the Benanker Sub-committee of the Senate Appropriations Committee on State Department matters, and he had the the State Department Appropriation Bill in the Sub-committee. Senator McCarran sent for me. He isks ol whe this attachance at Ithought it was true that I was working out the proper arrangaments for San Francisco. I said I was in so far as it had to do with congressional representation. He then said that he would like to be there and thought that it would be advisable and advantage to everybody's relationships that he should be. I explained to him that I didn't pretty heavy requests from the think that was possible because we had some difficulties of our relations committee, and the military committees of with minuses foreign affairs committee$ Markle. and matters of that sort. If we went outside of certain committees then we got into very troublesome questions in both the of House and the Senate, and he said that was a problem for me to deal with and no to Chairman longer concerned him. I then went to Senator McKellar who was the/xxxxx of the printing Appropriations Committee and layed the situation before hime Finding out that this could cause a great deal of difficulty on his committee both in regard to his own position as chairman and with regard to the seniority of other members NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND 15