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Newspaper Clipping, Washington Post, "Only Woman at Wake Talks Took Stenographic Notes"
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Newspaper Clipping, Washington Post, "Only Woman at Wake Talks Took Stenographic Notes"
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THE WASHINGTON POST
Friday, May 4, 1951
13
Only Woman at Wake Talks
Took Stenographic Notes
By The Associated Press
A stenographer who happened
"Where did this lovely lady
to have a pad of lined paper" with
come from?'
her at the time told yesterday of
Miss Anderson said "there was
how she took detailed notes on
no secret" about her being at the
the Truman - MacArthur confer-
main conference. She said all of
ence at Wake Island last fall.
the President's party knew she
She was the only woman pres-
was there and she had talked with
THU.
ent at the historic meeting-Miss
MacArthur's pilot and physician
Vernice Anderson of Omaha, a
before she went to the meeting.
"NAT
ARCHI\
State Department employe who
Her notes came into play, she
REC
works in the office of Ambassador
said, when persons in the Presi-
AD
Philip Jessup.
dent's party started reviewing the
Essic
Her notes on the Wake confer-
discussion. She emphasized sev-
G
ence were made public Wednes-
eral times that she was not by any
day. General MacArthur was
means the only person making
quoted by Senator Bridges yes-
notes.
terday as saying: "I was not aware
Her boss, Jessup, made notes at
of any stenographer being pres-
the conference table, she said, and
ent.'
so did several others in the Presi-
Bridges said he had indicated
dent's party. She said that obvi-
to MacArthur that "the so-called
ously was known to General Mac-
Wake Island report was largely
Arthur' since it occurred before
the work of a stenographer who
his eyes.
had been eavesdropping in the
next room."
Miss Anderson, a lively brunette
explained in an interview she had
gone to the conference headquar-
ters with a typewriter to type the
communique that was to be issued
at the end of the meeting.
The main conference room had
From therich
two smaller ones off it, and she
carried her typewriter into one
of these. She could hear conver-
sation in the main room, through
a slatted door, and when the talk
began she "just automatically be-
LAND 0 LA
gan taking notes." She continued:
"It was under no one's instruc-
tions. Actually, I hadn't even gone
there with a regular notebook. I
happened to have a pad of lined
paper and I just began making
notes on that pad. It seemed the
thing to do."
Miss Anderson explained she
took notes only on "the big meet-
ing at which everyone took notes."
She said she wasn't around at "the
little meeting when President
Truman and General MacArthur
talked by themselves."
She said that when "the big
meeting" was over and she walked
into the main conference room
where the President, the general
Fresher wh
and their aides had been talking,
MacArthur asked with a big
LAND O'LAKES GREAMERIES, ING.,
smile:
MINNEAPOLIS 11, MINN.
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