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Conversation No. 886-2

Date: March 21, 1973
Time: 8:11am - 8:20 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Gen. Brent G. Scowcroft.

Vietnam settlement
-Infiltration
-Latest reports
-Civil administrator groups


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-Truck movement
-Significance
-Prisoners of war [POW] release
-Four Power Commission
-North Vietnam’s representative
-Deadline
-US withdrawal
-Laos
-North Vietnam
-Public statement
-Laos
-Number of prisoners
-Air strikes
-Possible dates
-Release of POWs from Laos
-Postponement
-Laos
-Government formation
-Cabinet
-Message to Henry A. Kissinger
-Response from Kissinger
-Decision deadline
-Souvanna Phouma
-Timing
-Release of POWs
-Laos
-US assurances to Nguyen Van Thieu
-Cease-fire
-Implications
-Cambodia
-President's authority after troop withdrawal
-State Department
-Constitutional questions
-Gulf Of Tonkin Resolution
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Sept. 2010)
Conversation No. 886-2 (cont’d)


-Cease-fire
-Justifications
-Protection of troops
-Guarantee of cease-fire
-Congressional authorization
-Possible action by North Vietnam
-Treaty obligations
-Thailand
-Laos
-US withdrawal of troops
-POW release
-Deadline
-Logistics
-US message to North Vietnamese

Scowcroft left at 8:20 am.