Date: February 9, 1972
Time: 2:52 pm - 2:57 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
[See Conversation No. 321-11]
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Vietnam
-Bombing strikes
-B-3’s
-Schedule
-Weather
-Timing
-Nature of strike
-Maximum effort
-Agreement of military
-Targets
-Infiltration intensity
-Troops as targets
-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer view
-Talk with Haig
-Communication fixes
-Regimental and division headquarters
-Duration of strike
-Advantages of 48 hour strike
-Tactics
-Communications intelligence
-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr. view
-Haig view
-Psychological impression
-Enemy psychology
-US withdrawal
-Sortie levels
-Melvin R. Laird
-Abrams
-Perception of US strength
-Price of enemy activity
-Carrier arrival
-Number
-Gulf of Tonkin
-Press coverage
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-Enemy movement in Laos
-Enemy coasts
-South Vietnamese Navy
-Success of coastal strikes
-Problems
-Weather and navigation
-Moorer
-Prospects
-Weather
-Navy and Air Force ability
-Forthcoming bombing strike
-Moorer
-Use on other occasions