Editorial Note
President Truman met at the White House at approximately 9: 30 a. m. with the Secretaries of State and Defense, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Service Secretaries, and a few other officials. At this meeting, the President decided to commit United States ground forces to Korea in addition to the one Regimental Combat Team already authorized and also to establish a naval blockade of North Korea. For accounts of the meeting, see Truman, Years of Trial and Hope, page 343; Acheson, Present at the Creation, page 412; J. Lawton Collins, War in Peacetime: the History and Lessons of Korea (Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1969), page 23; Paige, The Korean Decision, pages 257 ff.; and Beverly Smith, “The White House Story: Why We Went to War in Korea,” The Saturday Evening Post (November 1951), pages 22 ff.