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136 BECRE / May 2, 1950 < s ARCHIVES SERVICE" RECORDE 'NATIONAL AND MEMORANDUM OF CONVERSATION WITH THE PRESIDENT The President! S Speeches on his Western Tour The President told me that after reconsideretior and hearing the vievs of the Speaker, be vas of the opinion that it would not be wise to spesk on foreign affairs in Chicago at the Democratic rally. He asiced me whether this would be agrecable to ne. I said that I had been considering the same question and thought that his decision not to speak on foreign affairs was a wise one. He will make a speech on the 14th at Madison dealing with our efforts in the field of peace. I think that into this speech one might get the bi- partisan discussion which Francis Russell has been working on. I said to the President that when some of the matters nov pending before the NSC had reached him and been decided, I thought he could make a much more poverful and concrete speech on foreign affairs. than he could at the present moment. He agreed with this viev and thought that he would do it from his desk. DECLASSIFIED E. O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or (E) 12.29.25 D pr. of State letter; Aug 9 1973 S:DA:be By NLT- HC NARS Date 6-11-76