Date: March 20, 1973
Time: 3:10 pm-3:19 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
[See Conversation No. 884-20]
North Vietnamese cease-fire violations
-Intelligence evacuation
-US reaction
-Haig’s view
-Henry A. Kissinger’s schedule
-Mexico
-Kissinger’s instructions to Gen. Brent G. Scowcroft
-Watchfulness
-Haig’s conversation with Tran Kim Phoung
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-South Vietnamese Ambassador
-Situation in South Vietnam
-Morale of the military
-North Vietnamese intentions
-Kissinger
-Bravado
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Delay
-Congressional approval
-Joseph W. Alsop [?]
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Troop withdrawal
-Resumption of war
-Rationale
-North Vietnamese infiltration
-Equipment
-Replacements
-Phoung’s view
-Nature of threat
-Warning to North Vietnam
-Target of US military response
-Domestic attitude
-Media coverage
-Laos