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Conversation No. 778-21

Date: September 15, 1972
Time: 11:50 am - 12:13 pm
Location: Oval Office


The President met with Patrick E. Carr, Cooper T. Holt, and William F. Rhatican.

[The White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.]

Greeting

Presentation to the President of porcelain eagle
-New Orleans
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Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW] Dinner

Telephone call from the President
-The President's schedule
-California

Holt's experience
-1956

Vietnam War
-VFW support for administration policies
-Press coverage
-VFW Support of the President
-Mining of Haiphong harbor
-Military progress
-US casualties
-Quang Tri
-North Vietnamese
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Demand for return
-US peace proposals
-The President's position
-Bombing
-Mining
-Return of POWs
-Importance of 1972 election
-Effect on negotiations
-The President's policies
-Return of Marine POWs
-Korean POWs
-Adm. John S. McCain, Jr.'s son
-US position in war
-Support of POW families
-North Vietnamese position
-Return of prisoners
-Negotiating stance
-Presidential evaluation

Foreign policy
-Henry A. Kissinger's trip to Paris
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-Negotiations
-The President's re-election
-Effect on President's policies

Vietnam War
-North Vietnam
-Military position
-US domestic conditions
-Bombing
-The President's May 8, 1972 speech
-Hue
-Army of the Republic of Vietnam [ARVN]
-North Vietnamese shortages
-Food
-Medical supplies
-Ammunition
-Effectiveness of blockade
-British blockade of World War I
-Civil War
-Economic effects
-German World War II POWs
-Herbert R. Rainwater
-POWs' situation
-Effect on North Vietnamese
-Administration policy
-Administration policy
-Bombing
-Negotiations
-North Vietnam
-Bargaining position
-Effect of Presidential election
-Military strategies
-World War II
-German cities
-Combat casualties
-South Vietnamese
-US public opinion
-Support for the President
-Bombing
-Mining
-Decisive actions
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-Negotiations
-The President's policy
-Possibility of war
-Press view
-Soviet Union
-World War III
-Cambodia
-The People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Moscow summit
-Troop support of the President
-The President's May 8, 1972 decision
-Carr's visit to Vietnam
-North Vietnamese
-Soviet tanks
-Oil
-Pipeline to replace barges
-Effect on negotiations
-Nationalism
-Indochina peninsula
-North Vietnam

North Vietnam
-Scope of war
-Cambodia
-Laos
-Thailand

Support of VFW
-Support for mining Haiphong harbor
-Support of the President in election
-George S. McGovern and Frank F. Mankiewicz
-Carr's speech
-Internal Revenue Service [IRS]
-VFW convention
-Minneapolis
-McGovern
-Amnesty

Amnesty issue
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-McGovern
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-Advocacy of amnesty
-Compared to Abraham Lincoln
-Lincoln's strategy
-Proclamation of amnesty
-Union deserters
-Prison term
-Carl Sandburg
-The President's stand
-Penalty
-Peace Corps
-Deserters compared to combat troops
-Canada
-Ramifications for future
-Effects of granting amnesty
-Volunteer forces
-Future wars
-Cuba
-Canada
-Reaction of draftees

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VFW support for the President

The President's possible visit to VFW convention
-New Orleans

Presentation of gifts
-Presidential cuff links

Carr, Holt and Rhatican left at 12:13 pm.
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