May 4, 1950
MEMORANDUM OF CONVERSATION WITH THE PRESIDENT AND JUDGE KEE
Item 1 of Briefing Book
The Judge took the entire half hour of my interview with the President. The President expressed his appreciation for the hard and successful work which Judge Kee had put in throughout the two sessions. They discussed the difficulty which the Chairman had with several of his Democratic colleagues and the President told him that he had appealed to the Speaker and John McCormack to give Judge Kee help in this matter.
The Judge mentioned the difficulties which the House Committee had in getting cooperation from the Senate Committee, but no solutions for this problem were put forth.
Toward the end of the interview Judge Kee referred to the proposal of Mr. McFall that the sub-committees of the House Committee should be arranged in a way which corresponds to the operating divisions of the Department. Judge Kee said that he had been working on this proposal since receipt of Mr. McFall's letter about April 20, and that he had an assignment of two committees worked out along the lines suggested. However, after Senator Connally's interview with the President, the press had given the impression that this whole idea was put forward by Senator Connally, and this had created difficulty within the House Committee and particularly with the Republican members. Judge Kee thought that he would have to achieve his purpose in a slightly different way. He said that the House Committee already had five regional committees. He would then create three new committees, one on economic and public affairs, one on State Department organization and operation, and one on either United Nations Affairs or International Organization - I forget just the correct title. Judge Kee thought that this was all that could be done at the present time. The President and I expressed appreciation of his difficulties and of his ingenuity in going as far as he proposed to solve them.
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Item No. 2 Public Statements and Speeches by U.S. Officials Regarding the Palestine Statement
I did not have time to refer to this item.
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Item No. 4 Reply to Soviets re Navy Plane
The President read and approved the note.
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Item No. 6 Pilgrim Speech
I left the present draft with the President, who said that he would read it promptly.
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