Date: March 21, 1973

Time: 4:23 pm-4:39 pm

Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

[See Conversation No. 421-13]

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North Vietnamese cease-fire violations

-US response

-Decision

-Henry A. Kissinger

-Message

-Gen. Brent G. Scowcroft

-Prisoners of War [POW] release

-Justifications

-Bombing of Cambodia

-Press questions

-Legal basis

-Decrease

-POW Release

-President’s response

-Laos

-Withdrawal of US troops

-Scowcroft

-Timetable

-Incident Rate

-Nguyen Van Thieu

-Statement

-Accusation

-Press reaction

-Hanoi

-US military action

-Ho Chi Minh trail

-Reaction in Vietnam

-Further action

-POWs

-Reaction of US public

-Effects on Hanoi

-Justification

-Belligerent response from North Vietnam

-Incident rate

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-POW release

-President’s statement

-Press reaction

-New York Times

-Warnings for North Vietnam

-Effectiveness

-Relations with Thieu

-Possible resumption of hostilities

-US public support

-South Vietnamese military capability

-Assessment by Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.

-Air Force

-Future strength

-People’s Republic of China [PRC] interest

-Soviet Union interest

-Kissinger’s message to Anatoliy Dobrynin

-Future summit

-December 1972 bombing

-POW responses

-Kissinger

-Abrams’ view

-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]

-Intelligence analysis

-Weather

-Effect of warning

-Cease-fire violations by US and South Vietnam

-Bombing of Cambodia

-Justification

-Legal basis

-Request by Cambodian government

-Violations of cease-fire

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