DEPARTMENT OF STATE Office of the Secretary
June 30, 1950
MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY
My memorandum of the discussions at Blair House on the evening of June 25th shows on pages 1 and 2 that the President asked you to open the discussion and that in your opening statement you recommended the use of the 7th Fleet to prevent an attack on Formosa.
The Joint Chiefs and finally Secretary Johnson entered the discussion later and approved in general your views.
My record also records that before dinner General Bradley read aloud a memorandum by General MacArthur emphasizing his views about the importance of denying Formosa to the Communists. I arrived at Blair House in the midst of that reading. My memorandum does not state but I now distinctly recall that after General Bradley had finished reading the memorandum before dinner the President stated that he was going to make the decisions but he was not going to make them all that night; that after dinner he wanted to hear the views of everybody and he would then decide what was to be done.
Philip C. Jessup
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