364. Editorial Note
On the morning of March 28, Ngo Dinh Nhu and Ambassador Tran Van Chuong met at the Department of State with Sebald, Young, and Corcoran. (Robertson was ill and unable to attend the meeting.) After a short conversation, Nhu and Chuong, accompanied by Sebald and an interpreter, went to the White House for a meeting with Eisenhower which lasted from 11:32 to 11:51 a.m. No record of what was said at this brief meeting with the President has been found in Department of State or Eisenhower Library files. (Eisenhower Library, President’s Daily Appointments and memorandum of conversation by Corcoran, March 28; Department of State, FE Files: Lot 59 D 19, MC–Vietnamese 1957)
On April 4 Nhu and Chuong paid a courtesy call on Dulles at 2 p.m. The discussion was nonsubstantive. (Memorandum of conversation by Young, April 4; ibid., Central Files, 033.51G11/4–457)