Memorandum of Conversation with President Harry S. Truman, Members of the Cabinet, and Senator Scott Lucas
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OCR Page 1 of 6TOP SECRET
DEPARTMENT OF STATE
COPY NO.
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Memorandum of Conversation
OF 8 COPIES
DATE: July 3, 1950
4:00 PM
SUBJECT:
Meeting at Blair House
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The President
PARTICIPANTS:
Secretary Acheson
Secretary Johnson
Secretary Snyder
Secretary Brannan
Postmaster General Donaldson
Senator Lucas
General Bradley
Mr. Harriman
Secretary Pace
Secretary Matthews
Mr. Jessup and Mr. Rusk
Secretary Finletter
accompanied the Secretary
of State
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THE PRESIDENT asked Mr. Acheson to lead off.
MR. ACHESON said the purpose of the meeting was to lay
before the President and his advisers a recommendation by the
Department of State that the President go before Congress some
time in the near future to make a full report to a Joint
Session of the Congress on the Korean situation. It was
proposed that this report to the Congress would be followed
by the introduction of a Joint Resolution expressing approval
of the action taken in Korea. It was not proposed that the
President should ask for such a resolution but that the
initiative for this should come from the members of Congress.
He said that Mr. McFall and others had talked to various
Senators and Congressmen and that his exploration revealed
a general desire for a Presidential message of this kind.
This was partly due to the fact that they felt that so far
only the leaders had been told what was going on. The
Secretary then distributed copies of the draft resolution and
read it aloud. He explained that in drafting it he had
tried to avoid anything which would give rise to debate by
concentrating on points on which there seemed to be general
agreement For example, the resolution proposes that the
Congress
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