37–190

Conversation No. 37-190

Date: March 21, 1973
Time: 4:23 pm-4:39 pm
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

[See Conversation No. 421-13]
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Conversation No. 37-190 (cont’d)




North Vietnamese cease-fire violations
-US response
-Decision
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Message
-Gen. Brent G. Scowcroft
-Prisoners of War [POW] release

-Justifications
-Bombing of Cambodia
-Press questions
-Legal basis
-Decrease
-POW Release
-President's response
-Laos
-Withdrawal of US troops
-Scowcroft
-Timetable
-Incident Rate
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Statement
-Accusation
-Press reaction
-Hanoi
-US military action
-Ho Chi Minh trail
-Reaction in Vietnam
-Further action
-POWs
-Reaction of US public
-Effects on Hanoi
-Justification
-Belligerent response from North Vietnam
-Incident rate
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Conversation No. 37-190 (cont’d)




-POW release
-President’s statement
-Press reaction
-New York Times
-Warnings for North Vietnam
-Effectiveness

-Relations with Thieu
-Possible resumption of hostilities
-US public support
-South Vietnamese military capability
-Assessment by Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-Air Force
-Future strength
-People's Republic of China [PRC] interest
-Soviet Union interest
-Kissinger's message to Anatoliy Dobrynin
-Future summit
-December 1972 bombing
-POW responses
-Kissinger
-Abrams’ view
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-Intelligence analysis
-Weather
-Effect of warning
-Cease-fire violations by US and South Vietnam
-Bombing of Cambodia
-Justification
-Legal basis
-Request by Cambodian government
-Violations of cease-fire
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