Conversation: 037-201
Prev: 037-200 Next: 037-202Start Date: 21-Mar-1973 7:35 PM
End Date: 21-Mar-1973 7:44 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haig, Alexander M., Jr.;Recording Device: White House Telephone
NARA Description:
On March 21, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. talked on the telephone from 7:35 pm to 7:44 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 037-201 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 37-201
Date: March 21, 1973
Time: 7:35 pm-7:44 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
Haig’s location
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Georgetown tennis tournament
North Vietnamese cease-fire violations
-Message from Henry A. Kissinger
-Rationale for US military action
-Effect on North Vietnamese thinking
-Prisoners of War [POW] release
-North Vietnamese offensive
-Laos settlement
-POW release
-Military effects
-North Vietnamese intentions
-US troop withdrawal
-Economic aid
-Pentagon’s role
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Sept-09)
Conversation No. 37-201 (cont’d)
-North Vietnamese infiltration
-Kissinger’s recommendations
-President’s evaluation
-POW release
-Military effects
-Past military responses
-Military effects
-"Menu" bombing
-May 8, 1972 decision
-December 1972 bombing
-Symbolic strikes
-US military action
-Delay
-North Vietnamese infiltration
-Bombing
-President’s decision
-Fate of peace treaty
-Signal to the North Vietnamese
-December 1972 bombing
-Pentagon's view
-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS]
-Domestic reaction
-POW issue
-New York Times
-North Vietnamese intentions
-Propaganda
-Kissinger’s analysis
-US military action
-Cambodia
-May 8, 1972 decision
-December 1972 bombing
-Bombing of Ho Chi Minh Trial
-Effects
-South Vietnamese
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Sept-09)
Conversation No. 37-201 (cont’d)
-Military burden
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-US withdrawal
-Bombing
-US support
-Ho Chi Minh Trail
-President’s decision