Date: May 5, 1971
Time: Unknown between 10:27 am and 10:33 am
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with Melvin R. Laird.
[See Conversation No. 491-20]
Laird's health
[A transcript of the following portion of this conversation was prepared under court order from
December 1978 through March 1979 for Special Access 8, Ronald V. Dellums, et al. v. James M.
Powell, et al., No. 71-2271. The National Archives and Records Administration produced this
transcript. The National Archives does not guarantee its accuracy.]
[End of transcript]
Military Command in Panama-Com South
-David Packard
-Admiral Thomas H. Moorer
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Laird
-Packard's recommendations
-US-Latin American relations
-Military assistance program
-Moorer's views
-Gen. William C. Westmoreland
-Staffing
Military assistance command
-Nixon Doctrine
-Gen. [Forename unknown] Ignatius
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Comsouth
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Kissinger
-State Department
-Moorer
-Packard
-Meeting of Defense leaders Conv. No. 2-85 (cont.)
-Military assistance
-Foreign policy implications
-State Department
-William P. Rogers
-Charles A. Meyer
-Forthcoming meeting