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10/11/53 - Reel 5, track 2 - Page 1
NATIONAL ADMIN TRE
U.S.
MR. JOHNSON: Just to finish my sentence: the third alternative, in terms of
the Middle East - I mean the middle term defense program. It
seems to me that maybe this is a lesson that is very important
for students of government to grasp: that it is essential at
times not to make too clear cut a. decision initially, especially
when you are dealing on the international planes.
MR. GRAHAM:
You mean not to make too clear cut a decision, or not to appear
to make too clear out a desision?
MR. JOHNSON:
Not to make it. And if I understand correctly, the decision was
not made.
DR.
OPPENHEIMER: Well, I think there is at the moment a similar situation. There
are a number of things that this country needs to be (warned),
all of which are compatibles with a variety of outcomes, and if
you were now to assert that the outcome was goong to be this or
that, you would fail to do part of the job which at the moment
needs to be - needs to take advantage of the fact that the same
action may be part of different programs wi th the same set of
that
actions. And I imagine thexe is also just what it was in th
MR. FISHER:
This is Fisher. From the point of view of the student of
government - I don't mean to bring in that old devil Congress
again, but the one problem that came up: at some stage of the
game you had to go through this argument in a relatively public
form. In this case, it didn't really take place until March '51,
but you had to go through the argument of "Well, is it big enough
really to stop them?" "No, it may not be, but it's big enough
to scare them; if it scares them enough they won't do it.' With
all the intellectual lissatisfactions that that argument involves,
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