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    "ocrText": "At 3:05 P.M., Tuesday, November 28, 1950, the President convened\na special meeting the National Security Council in the Cabinet\nof\nRoom at the White House.\nThose present at the meeting were as follows:\nThe President\nW. Averell Harriman, Special Assistant to the President\nSidney W. Souers, Special Consultant to the President\nGeorge M. Elsey, Administrative Assistant to the President\nThe Vice President\nDean Acheson, Secretary of State\nPhilip C. Jessup, Ambassador at Large\nH. Freeman Matthews, Deputy UnderSecretary of State\nDean Rusk, Assistant Secretary of State for Far\nEastern Affairs\nPaul H\nNitze, Director, Planning\nStaff\nGeneral George C. Marshall, Secretary of Defense\nRobert A. Lovett, Deputy Secretary of Defense\nFrank Pace, Jr., Secretary of the Army\nThomas K. Finletter, Secretary of the Air Force\nDan Kimball, Under Secretary of the Navy\nGeneral Omar Bradley, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff\nGeneral J. Lawton Collins, Chief of Staff, U. S. Army\nAdmiral Forrest Sherman, Chief of Naval Operations\nGeneral Hoyt S. Vandenberg, Chief of Staff, U. S. >Air Force\nStuart Symington, Chairman, National Security Resources Board\nRobert Smith, Vice Chairman, National Security Resources Bd.\nJohn W. Snyder, Secretary of the Treasury\nJames S. Lay, Executive Secretary, National Security Council\nGeneral W. B. Smith, Director, Central Intelligence Agency\nThe President asked General Bradley, who had set up a large map of\nKorea at one end of the room, to delay the military briefing until the\nCabinet convened at 4 P.M.\nThe President then asked the Secretary of State to open the dis-\ncussion.\nDECLASSIFIED\nREGCRDS\nE.O. 12065, Sec. 3-402\nState Dept. Guideline, June 12, 1979\nPROJECT ML 78.48 NSC LTR. 1-8-f1\nBy NLT- He NARS, Date 2-25-11"
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