134. Memorandum of Conversation0

SUBJECT

  • The President’s Visit to Japan1

PARTICIPANTS

The President informed Prime Minister Kishi that he had just learned of Soviet approval for travel arrangements on his forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union. These arrangements will permit him to visit Japan on his return from the Soviet Union. He said that he was delighted to be able to accept the Prime Minister’s previous invitation to visit Japan.

  1. Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, DDE Diaries. Secret; Limit Distribution. Drafted by Parsons. See also Documents 132, 133, and 135138.
  2. The President’s visit to Japan scheduled for June 20 was announced on January 20. For text of the press release, see Department of State Bulletin, February 8, 1960, p. 181.