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Memorandum of Conversation, by Lucius D. Battle, Special Assistant to the Secretary of State
| Participants: | General Vandenberg |
| Mr. Acheson |
After the meeting in regard to the question of whether General LeMay should go out to Korea, the Secretary called General Vandenberg and told him that the people with whom he had talked (Mr. Harriman, Mr. Matthews, Mr. Rusk) were unanimous in the feeling that General LeMay not go on this trip. He said that General LeMay had come to be something of a “Mr. Atom Bomb”, and that we felt it would excite people unduly and probably have bad effects if General LeMay were taken on this trip.
General Vandenberg agreed that he would not take General LeMay with him.