and he would see weitzman, he gave a direct order.o not let silver and those people in the white house. >> there was a famous incident where he shook his finger at truman's face and he was extremely face and told the person after that i never want that s.o.b. in my office again and that's when he kind of shut down and i don't want to see any more extreme zionist leaders, which is a category he had developed. >> one thing neither of you touched on in your remarks and i wonder if you get into it in the book is the position of the defense department because my understanding was that it wasn't simply marshall among the leading cabinet secretaries who was opposed but james also took a strong position. >> we didn't deal -- it was actually -- when the book was ready the cia, the famous cia long memo just was declassified. it's in one of the intelligence magazines. it's too late to include in the book and the cia -- it wouldn't have mattered if we put it in the book. it was almost verbatim the same arguments about the state department. they w

weitzman told truman he would sure the american president would keep emphasizing the need for partition as the only possible solution for security and peace in the middle east. weizmann toward you cannot turn the clock back before the partition vote to. the only choice he wrote truman, for the jewish people, is between statehood and extermination. history and providence have placed this issue in your hands. and i am confident that you have yet decided in the spirit of moral law. in a sense, but weizmann was right. two men had not chosen to be put into this position but as truman himself came to think, it was the quote that was mentioned that providence placed this heavy responsibility in his hands and fortunately for the jews the world over truman held his ground and even with the opposition of such a sterling figures of george c. marshall, he came out at the last minute without anybody knowing what he would do in the face a moment, for recognition of the new jewish state of israel. [applause] . .