Transcript Date
February 2, 1950
MEMORANDUM OF CONVERSATION WITH THE PRESIDENT
Item 2. Recognition of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia
I discussed this matter with the President, leaving with him the memorandum of February 2 recommending recognition. I also discussed the CIA paper of February 1, "Implications of Soviet Recognition of the Ho Regime in Indochina", pointing out to the President that, although there was no difference of opinion as to the facts before the CIA and the State Department, the CIA took a gloomier view of the situation than we did. The President received the memorandum; expressed himself in a preliminary way as in favor of recognition, and told me that he would give us his definitive reply tomorrow morning.
Dean Acheson
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