470–8

Conversation No. 470-8

Date: March 19, 1971
Time: Unknown between 11:45 am and 12:06 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger

President’s schedule
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Charles W. Colson
-Previous call to Admiral Thomas H. Moorer

Laotian operation (Lam Son)
-President’s March 22, 1971 Interview
-Effect
-Public statements
-Administration position
-Press reaction
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-Kissinger’s comments
-Moorer
-Effect
-Success
-Memos to President
-Howard K. Smith interview
-Administration position
-Justification
-Public comments
-B-52 strikes
-Effect on North Vietnamese army
-Casualties
-Supplies
-Raids
-General Nguyen Van Thieu
-Army of the Republic of Vietnam [ARVN]
-Withdrawal
-Reelection campaign
-President’s interview with Smith
-President’s comments
-ARVN withdrawal
-Withdrawal of ARVN
-North Vietnamese reaction
-General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-ARVN forces
-Tchepone
-Withdrawal
-Logistics
-Potential problems
-Offensive preparations
-Effectiveness
-Press coverage
-President’s comments
-Withdrawal
-Effect
-Administration campaign
-President’s interview with Smith
-Possible backgrounder by Kissinger
-North Vietnamese offensive actions
-Effect on future actions
-Possible negotiations
-President’s opponents
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-Thieu
-Thieu’s actions
-Tchepone
-Effect
-Press coverage
-Washington Post
-Moorer
-Kissinger’s assessment Conv. No. 470-8 (cont.)
-Effect
-[Forename unknown] Schultz [?]
-North Vietnamese supplies and troops
-Food supplies
-Ammunition
-Destruction of pipeline

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 11:45 am

A delivery

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 12:06 pm

Laotian operation (Lam Son)
-Effect on North Vietnamese forces
-Supplies
-Food
-Ammunition
-Weaponry
-Costs
-Defense Intelligence Agency [DIA]
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-Compared with Anti-ballistic Missiles [ABM] figures
-Sihanoukville [Kompong Som]
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-Decreases
-Raids
-ARVN Conv. No. 470-8 (cont.)
-President’s opponents
-Effect
-Compared with Cambodia
-US casualties
-President’s troop withdrawal announcement
-Numbers
-Positive public reaction
-Melvin R. Laird
-Effect
-Laird and Kissinger
-A story in news summary
-William P. Rogers
-Press Conference
-Call to President
-Laird and Kissinger
-Purpose
-President’s press conference statement
-Withdrawal rates
-Laird and Kissinger
-Numbers
-President’s position
-Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS]
-Cambodia, Laos
-US bombing
-Timing
-Reasons
-Kissinger’s talk with Moorer

Sino-Soviet relations
-Party Congress

Vietnam
-US troop withdrawals
-Laird
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-Numbers
-Notice
-Announcement
-JCS, General Creighton W. Abrams, Jr., Thieu, Moorer
-Armed Services Committee
-President’s possible successor
-Timing
-Numbers Conv. No. 470-8 (cont.)
-Kissinger’s view
-Laird
-Laird and Kissinger
-President
-Peace negotiations
-Timing
-President’s view
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Remaining troops
-Purpose
-Public opinion
-Haig’s view
-Numbers
-Timing
-President’s view
-California trip
-Laird and Rogers
-Moorer
-President’s previous conversation
-Laird

Soviet Union
-Kissinger’s forthcoming meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Berlin
-Willy Brandt
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:45 am

President’s schedule
-Forthcoming signing ceremony
-Mark I. Goode
-Television coverage
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Kissinger left at an unknown time before 12:06 pm

-Time

The President and Bull left at an unknown time before 12:06 pm


Conv. No. 470-8 (cont.)