We know about these earnest and somewhat embarrassing exchanges because our
government has excellent records. Memoranda provide descriptions of
meetings and telephone calls; correspondence—whether by mail or cable—was
preserved; minutes were kept of sessions of the National Security Council
and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, much of them eventually published. All this
helped to lessen the chance for misunderstandings among departments in
Washington and between the United States and foreign governments. Thanks to
the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), the State
Department’s Office of the Historian, and others, these contemporaneous
impressions of what was said and thought while policies were formed produce
a historical inheritance of great value.

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