Notes from 1951 by George Elsey summarizing a June 30, 1950, meeting among the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Defense Secretary Louis Johnson, and the three service secretaries, and noting a discrepancy between Johnson's assurance that Truman had orally authorized him to send two divisions into Korea and Truman's own, less definite, memo on the subject. Papers of George M. Elsey

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