Secretary’s Daily Meetings, Lot 58 D 609, June 19511
Memorandum of Conversation, by the Director of the Executive Secretariat (McWilliams)
Subject: Summary of Meeting With the Secretary
| Participants: | Mr. Acheson |
| Mr. Matthews3 | |
| Mr. Cabot4 | |
| Mr. Nitze5 | |
| Mr. Barrett6 | |
| Mr. Thorp | |
| Mr. Howe7 | |
| Mr. Reinhardt8 | |
| Mr. McWilliams | |
| Mr. Battle9 |
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Item 3. Status of Work on Kem Amendment
The Secretary asked Mr. Thorp about the status of the work on the Kem Amendment. Mr. Thorp reported (1) that the Secretary of Defense had compiled his list which covered some seventeen hundred general category items with many sub-heads under each; (2) the general statement of exception had been drawn for submission to the Congress and he thought that the language was very good; and, (3) the Regional Bureaus began a series of discussions with the various ambassadors yesterday to explain the law to them and the request for information on which the NSC could base action for each country.
It was generally agreed by everyone present that this was a pretty awful mess and almost impossible for us to administer.
- Chronological collection of the records of the Secretary of State’s daily meetings with top Department of State officials for the years 1949–1952, as maintained by the Special Assistant to the Secretary of State.↩
- The omitted sections summarized discussions of the Korean situation and Iran.↩
- H. Freeman Matthews, Deputy Under Secretary of State.↩
- Thomas D. Cabot, Director of International Security Affairs in the Department of State.↩
- Paul H. Nitze, Director of the Policy Planning Staff in the Department of State.↩
- Edward W. Barrett, Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs.↩
- Fisher Howe, Deputy Special Assistant for Intelligence.↩
- G. Frederick Reinhardt, Director of the Office of Eastern European Affairs in the Department of State.↩
- Lucius D. Battle, Special Assistant to the Secretary of State.↩