Date: March 12, 1971
Time: Unknown between 8:20 am and 8:32 am
Location: Oval Office
The President talked with an unknown person
[Conversation No. 467-5A]
President’s schedule
-A meeting in the Map Room
-An unknown person
-Forthcoming call
-Length
General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Location
[End of telephone conversation]
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 8:20 am
President’s appreciation
The unknown person left at an unknown time before 8:32 am
[The President talked with General John W. Vogt, Jr. at an unknown time between 8:20 am and
8:32 am]
[Conversation No. 467-5B]
Laotian operation (Lam Son)
-President’s call to Admiral Thomas H. Moorer
-Military situation
-Possible withdrawal
-North Vietnamese troop strength
-Moorer
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Military viewpoint
-Compared with World War I
-Washington Post coverage
-Duration of operation
-Air strikes
-President’s instructions
-Weather
-President’s instructions
-Effect
-Tchepone
-Army of the Republic of Vietnam [ARVN]
-Vogt’s assessment
-General Nguyen Van Thieu
-Cambodian operation
-Air strikes
-Possible limits
-Budget
-President’s role
-Moorer
-Air strikes
-Budget
-President’s role
-President’s instructions
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