37–130

Conversation No. 37-130

Date: March 16, 1973
Time: 7:41 pm-7:50 pm
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.
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Vietnam
-North Vietnamese Economic Commission member
-Conversation with US delegate
-Treaty observance
-Inaccurate intelligence
-North Vietnamese infiltration
-US Response
-North Vietnamese cease-fire violations
-US bombing
-Economic aid
-US Air Force
-Effects
-Prisoners of war [POWs]

-President’s reputation
-President's conversation with Capt. Jeremiah P. Denton, Jr.
-Conduct of POWs
-President’s appearance of irrationality
-Media coverage
-Harvard University

People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Respect for President
-Vulnerability
-Effect of US aid
-George S. McGovern
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Delivery of President's letters

Bombing Of Vietnam
-Plan
-Effectiveness of US Air Force
-Hanoi
-Ho Chi Minh Trail
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-Planning
-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
-Cambodia
-Trucking on Ho Chi Minh Trail
-Kissinger’s schedule
-Mexico
-World report
-State Department
-Defense Department
-PRC
-Soviet Union
-US warnings


President's Senate opponents
-Administration response
-Democratic Caucus
-Effect on Vietnam settlement
-Europe
-Reduction in forces
-Visit of Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Columnists
-Joseph W. Alsop
-National mood
-Opposition to administration policy
-Peace
-Soviet Union
-Arms reduction
-Withdrawal from Europe
-Press relations
-Richard L. Wilson
-William S. White
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