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10am – 5pm

Date: February 14, 1973

Time: Unknown between 3:04 pm and 4:05 pm

Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Thomas H. Moorer.

Prisoners of War [POWs] returning from Vietnam

-Debriefing

-POWs’ attitudes

-Support for President

-Bombing

-Support

-December 26, 1972 raid

World War II

-Prisoners of Japanese

-Hokaido

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Bombing

-North Vietnamese reaction

-POWs’ morale

POWs’ return

-Statements

-Capt. Jeremiah A. Denton, Jr.

-Capt. James A. Mulligan, Jr.

-Impact on critics of bombing

-Bombing

-POWs’ appearance

-Release of POWs’ reactions

Bombing

-North Vietnam’s reaction

-May 8, 1972 bombing

-Bombing halt

-Delays in negotiations

-Cambodia

-Purpose

-Result

-Impact on the People’s Republic of China [PRC] and Soviet Union

-Statesmen

-Winston S. Churchill

-Franklin D. Roosevelt

-Allied attitudes

-Japan

-Australia

-Ian O. smith

-Great Britain

-Portugal

-Greece

-Turkey

-Spain

-Latin America

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-Brazil

-European Socialists

-Germany

-Netherlands

-Latin America

-Australia

-Military

Canada’s military

-Reaction to bombing

-Relations with US military

-Military missions

-Participation

-US Marine Corps

-Strength

European military

-Strength

-Denmark

Socialist countries

-parliamentary coalitions

Vice President Spiro T. Agnew

-Trip to Southeast Asia

-Report

-Moorer’s visit

Far East

-Indonesia [?]

-Thailand

-Moorer’s travel

-PRC

-Negotiations

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POWs

-Photograph

-Washington Star

-Corsages for wives or mothers

-Future careers

-Military

-Denton

-Contact with Moorer

-President’s call to Mrs. Denton

-Families’ reaction to the President’s policies

-Knowledge of bombing

Bombing

-B-52, tactical aircraft

-Damage to Hanoi

-Pictures

-Harold E. Hughes

-Allegations of carpet bombing

-Civilian casualties

-Compared with World War II

-Refusals to fly

POWs

-Heroism

-Korean War

-President’s policies

-Peace with honor

-Defeat of North Vietnam

-Debriefing

-Col. Al Lynn

-Attitudes

-Uniforms and bearing

-Pay bonuses

-Congress

-Recommendations

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-Military institutional support

-Legal advice

-Career options

-Educational commitments

-Graduate schools

-War colleges

-Duty stations

-Citations

-Presidential Unit Citation

-Moorer’s recommendations

-Gen. Brendt G. Scowcroft

-Individuals

-Years of captivity

-Bravery, performance

-Pay

-Congressional opposition

-Bonus

-Defense Department recommendations

-Historical precedents

-World War II

-Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS]

US foreign policy

-Vietnam War

-US interests

-Southeast Asia

-Commitments to allies

-Great power status

-Attacks on military

-Impact of POWs

-Pentagon

-Heroism

-US strength

-Patriotism

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President’s Pentagon visit

-Effects [?]

-Luncheon

-Elliot L. Richardson

-JCS

-Service secretaries

-Timing

-President’s admiration

-POWs

-Presidential citation

-Timing

-Congress

-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

-Patriotism

Consultation between military and the President

-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]

-L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III

-JCS chairman

-Richard M. Helmz [?]

-Strategic Arms Limitations Talks [SALT]

-Direct line to JCS

-Moorer’s access to the President

Vietnam

-May 8, 1972 bombing

-Secretary’s recommendations

-Overruled

-Continuation

-Weather

-Moorer’s recommendations

-B-52 losses

-June 5, 1972 raid

-Number of sorties

-Halt

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-December 1972 bombing

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-The President’s role

-Unpredictability

The President’s conversation with Scowcroft and Haig

-Military missions abroad

-Foreign arms sales

-Church amendment

-Competition

-France

-Latin America

-State Department

-US military ties

-Uruguay

-Chile

-Indonesia

-Communism

-Population

-Lt. Gen. T. N. S. Suharto

-Military aid

-Contacts

-Alliances

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-Socialist countries

-Brazil

-US military aid

-Conditions

-Destroyers

-Missiles

-Preference for US advisors, arms

-US arms

Foreign policy planning

-President’s discussion with Haig

-National Security Council [NSC]

-Military field grade officers

-Think tanks

-Broader thinking

-State Department

-Arms sales

-Latin America

-Psychological operations

-Contribution of military people

-Air force

-Europe, PRC, Soviet Union

-Think tanks

-Differing views

-Impact on NSC

-Role of JCS

-Styx missile

-Naval officers

-Mediterranean

-Memorandum

-Israeli ship

-Richardson

-Conventional weapons

-Usefulness

-Korea

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-Nixon Doctrine

-Small nations

-Self defense

-Conventional warfare

-Prolonged war

-Navy, air force

-Sophisticated, expensive weapons

-Tactical air power

-Cost effectiveness

Conventional weapons

-Europe

-Mutual and balanced force reduction [MBFR]

-Japan, Asia

-Tactical nuclear weapons

-Military planning group

-Study results

The President’s foreign policy decisions

-May 8, 1972 decision

-Henry A. Kissinger

-Haig

-Impact on US-Soviet relations

-US-Soviet summit, May 1972

-Preemptive cancellation

-President’s speech

-Television [TV]

-Fear of Soviet Union reprisals

-The President’s deliberations

-Need for outside counsel

-John B. Connally

-December 1972 bombing

-Breakdown in negotiations

-Kissinger’s cable and recommendations

-President’s speech

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-TV

-Compared with May 8, 1972 decision

-Impact on negotiations

-North Vietnam

-Success of US-Soviet summit, Vietnam settlement

-White House staff, NSC

Presidential advisors

-Need to hear different opinions

-State Department, Defense Department, Central Intelligence Agency

[CIA]

-NSC’s role

-NSC

-Haig

-Management skills

-Knowledge

Military advisory capacity

-Younger officers

-Age

-Experience

-New ideas

-Moorer’s staff

-Transfers

-POWs

-Abilities

-Insights

-JCS

-Air force, navy, personnel

-Independent initiative

-No fear of reprisal

-Leaking to press

-Bureaucracy

-Kissinger

-NSC

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-Haig

-Talent in military

Defense budget

-Wilbur D. Mills

-Cuts in post-Vietnam War period

-Personnel costs

-Mills

-Support

-Moorer’s speech

-Commonwealth Club

-International interests

-Energy crisis

-Middle East instability

-Negotiations

-Strength of US

-Budget

-Decreases

-TV press conference by Moorer

-Vietnam War’s effects on US military morale

-War conditions

-Public criticism of the war

-Attack on the press

Moorer

-San Francisco

-Visit to Brigham Young University

-Salt Lake City

-Spokesman for Defense Department

-Timing

-POWs

-Foreign policy

Amnesty

-Policy regarding pardon

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-Moorer’s statement

-Selective Service Act

-Impact on POWs

-Divisiveness of issue

-Patriotism

-Military service personnel

-Conscientious objection

-Desecration

-Legal consequences

Richardson

The White House photographer entered at 4:03 pm.

Photograph session

-Scowcroft

Bombing

-Decision

-Cambodia

-May 8, 1972 decision

-North Vietnam

The White House photographer left at 4:04 pm.

Moorer left at 4:05 pm.