Minutes of Meeting with President Harry S. Truman and Congressional Leaders
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Meeting of the President with Congressional Leaders
11 A.M., Friday, December 1, 1950
The President opened the meeting at 11:05 A.M. by asking
General Bradley to give a summary `of the military situation.
General Bradley arose and, with the aid of a large map of
Korea, gave a full description of the current military situation in
Korea. He described the disposition of American and other United Na-
tions troops, and the estimated disposition of attacking communist
forces.
At the conclusion of his summary, the President asked if
anyone wished to ask questions of General Bradley.
Senator Connally asked why General MacArthur's forces were
split into two armies, one in the east and one in the west.
General Bradley said that there was a very high range of
mountains down the center of Korea and that there were very poor
lateral communications between the east coast and the west coast.
MacArthur probably could maintain better communications between
groups on the east and on the west by radio through Tokyo than he
could by overland communications through the mountains. As for the
answer to the question of why General MacArthur had pushed some of
his units up toward the northeastern corner of Korea, General Bradley
DECLASSIFIED
E.O. 12065, Sec. 3-402
State Dept. Guideline, June 12, 1979
SERVICE
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PROJECT NLT 74.2
By NLT- HC NARS, Date 2-27-11
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