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TROMAN
Truman-Bomb.
ARUVH
ARCHIVES AND
RECORDS
LIBEARY
8.5. SERVICE"
Truman's first connection with the bomb project - though
he knew nothing of what the project was - occurred long before
he became President. It was during his senate service as a
member of the appropriations committee and as chairman of the
Senate Special Committee to Investigate the National Defense
Program - known as the "Truman Committee," when the first
appropriation for the project came before the appropriations
committ ee. In talks with the President on at least two
occasions (May 5, 1991 and August 6, 1951) he told me of this.
He said the appropriation request did not disclose the nature of
the project and, as a result, he ordered an investigator for his
special committee to look into it. In his memoirs,
Truman says that he sent investigators into Tennessee (Oak Ridge)
and to the state of Washington (Hanpord) to find out what the
was
enormous constructions/and their purpose. Immediately afterward
Secretary Stimson called him and they got together. Stimson did
not tell him what the project was but did tell him it concerned
the topmost secret in the government and that they wanted to
go ahead without disclosing any information. On Stimson's
assurances, the Pre sident called off his investigation and did
not go further into the matter. (EAA talk, Aug. 6, 1951).
He told me (May 5, 1951) that he knew nothing about the bomb
project itself until Stimson went into it with him on April 25,
1945, af ter he had become president.
On April 12, 1945, after the Cabinet met, soon after
he was sworn in at 7:09 p.m., Truman says in his memoirs, that
Stimson remained and said he wanted Truman "to know about an
immense project that was under way - a project looking to the
development of a new explosive of almost unvelievable destructive
power." He says this left him puzzled but that "it was the first
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