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VOICE:
Well, you can always point out that your acting majority leader in
the Senate is saying that Rhee in most recent discussions
is the same thing
MR. BUNDY:
I agree. But it still would be true that if Len Hall wanted to get
say,
a lot of Senators to go and/make noises that Eisenhower wanted me. de,
TRUMAN,
he could get them to do so.
ARCHIVES&
"NATIONAL RECORDS ADMIN
F COVERNAN
VOICE:
The Senators I know, they would bitterly resent any attempt by the
Nati onal Committee to tell them what they ought to say on anything.
sort of
VOICE:
I think we are probably getting into I don it know, I have/a feeling
that it overestimates the potentialities of the political organization
as such, to, say, crack the whip with the committees. The Senate is
regarded as a service function to a large degree.
MR. BUNDY,
Well then suppose we change it around and make the point that there
was needed a Presidential follow=up. Somewhere there is a problem
of political leadership in this issue, which the White Paper is not in
itself. (This is, I thinki something to say)
VOICE:
Well, aron't you simply saying that in this period the Truman adminis-
tration did not have active Briends in the Senate group who would take
the initiative in doing these things.
MR. BUNDY:
by something which by the natur e of Amer ican politics nobydy wants
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