Date: March 8, 1973

Time: Unknown between 9:54 am and 10:05 am

Location: Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

President’s schedule

-Additional meeting

-John D. Ehrlichman’s recommendations

-Telephone call

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-New York

-Leslie T. (“Bob”) Hope

-President’s radio speech on crime and drugs

-Draft preparation

-National Security Council (NSC) meeting

Henry A. Kissinger entered at 9:55 am.

NSC meeting

-Kissinger’s briefing

-James R. Schlesinger’s briefing

-Length

-Termination of meeting

President’s schedule

-Meetings

-NSC compared to Cabinet

-Length

-Changes in today’s schedule

– President’s meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin

-Meeting with Mustafa Kahr and Aziz Ahmed

Bull left at an unknown time after 9:55 am.

Treatment of Kahr and Ahmed

-President’s meeting with Kahr and Ahmed

-Embassy events

-Attendance at dinners

-US state department staff

Elliot L. Richardson

-[First name unknown] Cooper

President’s meeting with Kahr and Ahmed

-Meeting with Kissinger

-Military aid

-Daniel P. Moynihan’s State Department recommendation

-Refurbished equipment

-Armored personnel carriers

-India’s production

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-US obligations

-Peoples Republic of China [PRC], Iran

-1972 election

-Kissinger’s recommendations

-State Department

-Problems

-Congress

-India-US relations

-Conciliation

-Moynihan

-State Department

-US aid for India, Pakistan

-Release

-Contracts

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Vietnam settlement

-Defense Department

-Withdrawal of troops

-Rate

-Relation to Prisons of war [POWs] release

-POWs

-Unnamed Air Force major

-Homecoming

-Praise for President

-Troops

-Retention

-Nguyen Van Thieu’s state visit

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-Protests by antiwar groups

-Le Duc Tho

-Sense of confusion of groups

-POWs

-Criticism of protesters

NSC meeting

-Length

-Multiple Independently-Targeted Re-Entry Vehicles [MIRV]

-Meeting with Anatoly F. Dobrynin

-Delay

Kissinger left at 10:05 am.