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    "ocrText": "2/13/54, Reel 5, Track 1, P:\n6\nthe three Chiefs and Bradley - were unanimous about this thing. We sat with\nthem during the discussions, and this wasn't really I don't think it would\nhave been any easier for a single man -- this wasn't a breakdown of the organi-\nand\nzation in the lack of somebody to resolve an issue; That wasn't an issue.\nI think all four of them --\n[CONFUSION]\nMR. JOHNSON: Doesn't it raise questions about the Joint Chiefs as an organization for\ndecision? I mean, here you have agreement --\nMR. NITZE:\nThe decision was not to do anything more about this -\nKenne s TRUMM INATIONAL ADMIV\nMrkraham:\nVOICE:\nYoufre stating my question.\nMR. JOHNSON:\nI was going to approach the same thi issue from a little different direction.\nIt seems to me that there ought to be some way in which a person - a field\ncommander - who runs completely out of bound like this can be dealt with.\nNow was it just because MacArthur was a senior person? I mean it could\nhappen again -- it could happen with the British with a Montgomery, I should\nkind of\nthink. Exactly the same thing could happen. It could happen with a George\nPatten, I think.\n[CONFUSION]\nit\nMR. NITZE:\nThe machinery is perfectly adequate to handle, because you can relieve him\nA\nor you can send him as specific instruction and tell him to oben his orders.\nortrahom:\nsale\nVOICE:\nIf one of the four Joint Chiefs had had the responsibility, wouldn't he have\n1\ndone something about it?\nVOICES:\nThat's -- Not one of those four -- etc.\nDR. OPPENHEIMER:\na peculiarly harsh business because the timing was so sensisite. This\nwent so fast, and it was very hard, I suppose for anyone in Washington, to\nreally\nfeel that he knew all the relevant facts - in fact he didn't know all of them,\n1\nno one knew them.- - and the chance to stop it ran out in a few days.\nMR. JOHNSON:\nSupporting George's comment \"not oneof those four\", it is to be remembered\nthat Joe Collins was a green Second Lieutenant when MacArthur was a Major"
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