Word: muccio
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Pipe Session. At 7:45 the two men emerged into the tropic sunshine and made another rattling journey, this time to Wake's new coral-pink administration building. Their advisers-General Omar Bradley, Frank Pace, Admiral Radford, Philip Jessup and Averell Harriman for the President, Korean Ambassador John Muccio and Brigadier General Courtney Whitney for MacArthur-were waiting. The President suggested that it was no weather for coats. Said MacArthur, pulling out a pipe: "Do you mind if I smoke, Mr. President...
...MacArthur paid his second visit within a month to the Korean fighting front. MacArthur's plane put down at a newly completed dirt airstrip in South Korea. The general alighted, talked briefly with South Korean President Syngman Rhee, Prime Minister Shin Sung Mo, and U.S. Ambassador John J. Muccio. Said MacArthur to the Prime Minister: "You take care of the President. We are going to take care of your country...
...guard of correspondents on hand. The first man with news of the North Korean attack was Jack James of the United Press, whose flash from Seoul reached Washington shortly after 9 p.m. on a sweltering Saturday night-more than 20 minutes before the coded cable from U.S. Ambassador John Muccio...
...Ambassador John Muccio made a reassuring broadcast; at the same time he ordered some 1,800 American civilians in Korea evacuated forthwith...