Motion Picture MP2002-257A
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Former president Harry S. Truman reads from a script regarding Eddie Jacobson's role in the decision to recognize Israel, recorded for potential use in the Decision episode, "At War With The Experts." Sound only.
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Shot List
0:00 Female voice: “Wildtrack 3007, scene 45, show 7.”
Harry S. Truman speaks (paraphrased): I gave orders that nobody should be allowed to see me on the Palestine question. Dr. Chaim Weizmann was not allowed in the White House. But someone else did see me and he got in. He came in tired and a little older looking. My old friend Eddie Jacobson. In all my years in politics, Eddie had never asked me for a single thing. Now he could hardly talk.
0:58 Truman: I walked to the window and looked out. I said “finally, after 30 years you’ve come to ask me for something.” I told him I respected Dr. Weizmann but if I saw him it would only result in more wrong interpretations.
1:52 Mr.Truman is corrected in reading the script.
Truman: I was considered to be in the wrong everywhere and to recognize the state of Israel would blow the lid off everything.
Truman: I didn’t know what he was leading up to; he was talking about Dr. Chaim Weizmann. I left instructions that Dr. Weizmann be admitted but only through the side door.