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President Truman's 298th News Conference, held in the Indian Treaty Room (Room 474) in the Executive Office Building at 4 p.m. on Thursday, April 3, 1952. Topics discussed include: The United Nations truce team at Panmunjon, Korea; the resignation of Attorney General J. Howard McGrath, and the nomination of James P. McGranery to replace him; the Chelf subcommittee investigation of Assistant Attorney General Newbold Morris, and J. Edgar Hoover's role; General Harry Vaughn's statement to the St. Louis Post Dispatch regarding Truman running for the Senate; Truman's support of W. Stuart Symington for the Senate from Missouri; Truman's suggestion that former Presidents should have an ex-officio role in Congress; who will succeed Charles E. Wilson as Director, Office of Defense Mobilization; Truman's support of Adlai Stevenson as the Democratic nominee for President in 1952; and the appointment of an ambassador to the Vatican. Press Secretary Joseph Short is also mentioned.