Conversation No. 246-037
Date: April 7, 1971
Time: 7:09 pm - 7:59 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with Hugh Scott, Robert C. Byrd, Robert P. Griffin, Gerald R. Ford, Carl B.
Albert, William E. Timmons, and Clark MacGregor
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Scott
Greetings
Allen J. Ellender
-Schedule
Photo session
President’s office
Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 7:10
J. Bruce Whelihan and members of the press entered at 7:11 pm
General conversation
Henry A. Kissinger entered at 7:12 pm
Kissinger’s schedule
-Media
Whelihan and the members of the press left at 7:13 pm
President’s conversation with Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield, April 6, 1971
President’s schedule
-Congressional leaders
-Richard B. Russell
-Ellender
-Meetings with the President
Vietnam
-President’s forthcoming speech, April 7, 1971
-Troop withdrawals
-Korea
-Cambodian incursion
-Army of the Republic of Vietnam [ARVN] performance
-Effect on North Vietnamese military capability
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-President’s forthcoming speech, April 7, 1971
-Rate
-United States’ goals
-Troop withdrawal
-Date
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Flexibility
-South Vietnam
-Possible actions by Congress
-Responsibility
-POWs
-President’s options
-Albert and Ford
-Timing
-POWs
-Congress
-Negotiations
-President’s options
-Combat forces
-Laotian incursion
-Effect
-President’s policies
-Air strikes
-Reductions since 1969
-Laos
-Lam Son
-Figures
-Casualties
-Reductions
-Tet Offensive
-Timing
-Negotiations
-Prospects
-President’s forthcoming speech, April 7, 1971
-POWs
-Timing
-South Vietnamese military activities
-Casualties
-Congressional action
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-Possible effects
-Unknown man
-Trip to Bonn
-POWs
-Melvin R. Laird
-Possible United States’ withdrawal
-Troop withdrawals
-Timing
-United States’ policy
-Residual forces
-Korea
-POWs
-Timing
-POWs
-Issue
-United States-held prisoners
-Troop withdrawal
-South Vietnamese military capability
-United States’ bargaining position
-Troop withdrawal
-Difficulties
-Negotiations
-Thailand
-United States’ treaty responsibilities
-Philippines, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan
-South Vietnam
-US forces
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[Previous National Security (B) withdrawal reviewed under MDR guidelines case number
LPRN-T-MDR-2014-015. Segment declassified on 01/10/2018. Archivist: MAS]
[National Security]
[246-037-w001]
[Duration: 30s]
Vietnam
-Troop withdrawal
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-Thailand
-Why can’t US pull forces out
-Limited troops in Vietnam
-President’s opinion
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Vietnam
-Laos
-Casualties
-Cambodia
-French
-South Vietnamese incursion
-Air campaign
-Prospects
-Congress
-Possible actions
-Responsibility
Donald W. Riegle, Jr.
House of Representatives
-Ford and Albert
General conversation
Ziegler and Kissinger left at 7:43 pm
Forthcoming calls to Senate Committees
-Laird
-William P. Rogers
General conversation
Scott’s efforts
MacGregor’s conversation with Laird
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Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, NARA Online Public Access Catalog Identifier: 597542
Scott, et al. left at 7:59 pm