44–102

Conversation No. 44-102

Date: March 30, 1973
Time: 1:09 pm-1:22 pm
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Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

[See also Conversation No. 890-30]

President’s schedule
-Trip to California

Vietnam
-Henry A. Kissinger’s memorandum on North Vietnam’s build-up
-Cambodia
-Bombing of Ho Chi Minh trail
-Timing
-Laos
-Public opinion
-Haig’s concern
-Cambodia
-Intelligence reports
-South Vietnam
-Incident rate
-Violations of agreement
-Laos, South Vietnam, Cambodia
-Infiltration
-Incidents
-Investigations
-Cambodia
-Crisis mentality
-Bombing
-Cambodia
-Impact
-Panhandle area of South Vietnam
-Warnings to North Vietnam
-President’s March 29 speech
-Violations of agreement
-Congressional support
-Cambodia
-Air operations
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-Laos
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Need for time
-Collapse of agreement
-Soviet Union
-Amount of influence
-Kissinger’s Washington Special Actions Group [WASG]
-Study
-Cambodia
-Haig’s study visit
-Lon Nol’s removal
-Congressional relations
-Aid to North Vietnam
-Conditions
-POWs
-Television [TV] interviews
-Popular reaction
-Violations of agreement
-Gen. Creighton W. Abram’s evaluation
-Vietnamization
-South Vietnam’s capabilities
-Kissinger’s memorandum
-Communist offensive in April


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-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Expectations of US support
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-US troop deployment
-Bombing
-South Vietnam’s military response
-Khe Sanh
-Military Region III
-Cambodia
-Government
-US advisors
-Communist victory