Date: March 30, 1973

Time: 1:09 pm-1:22 pm

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Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

[See also Conversation No. 890-30]

President’s schedule

-Trip to California

Vietnam

-Henry A. Kissinger’s memorandum on North Vietnam’s build-up

-Cambodia

-Bombing of Ho Chi Minh trail

-Timing

-Laos

-Public opinion

-Haig’s concern

-Cambodia

-Intelligence reports

-South Vietnam

-Incident rate

-Violations of agreement

-Laos, South Vietnam, Cambodia

-Infiltration

-Incidents

-Investigations

-Cambodia

-Crisis mentality

-Bombing

-Cambodia

-Impact

-Panhandle area of South Vietnam

-Warnings to North Vietnam

-President’s March 29 speech

-Violations of agreement

-Congressional support

-Cambodia

-Air operations

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-Laos

-Prisoners of war [POWs]

-Need for time

-Collapse of agreement

-Soviet Union

-Amount of influence

-Kissinger’s Washington Special Actions Group [WASG]

-Study

-Cambodia

-Haig’s study visit

-Lon Nol’s removal

-Congressional relations

-Aid to North Vietnam

-Conditions

-POWs

-Television [TV] interviews

-Popular reaction

-Violations of agreement

-Gen. Creighton W. Abram’s evaluation

-Vietnamization

-South Vietnam’s capabilities

-Kissinger’s memorandum

-Communist offensive in April

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-Nguyen Van Thieu

-Expectations of US support

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-US troop deployment

-Bombing

-South Vietnam’s military response

-Khe Sanh

-Military Region III

-Cambodia

-Government

-US advisors

-Communist victory