Secret White House Tapes

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2–86
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Melvin R. Laird
May 5, 1971
Conversation No. 2-86

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]

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-David Packard
-Admiral Thomas H. Moorer
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Laird
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-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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