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
Scott
Greetings
Allen J. Ellender
-Schedule
Photo session
President’s office
Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 7:10
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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
-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
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-Congress
-Negotiations
-President’s options
-Combat forces
-Laotian incursion
-Effect
-President’s policies
-Air strikes Conv. No. 246-37 (cont.)
-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
-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
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-United States’ bargaining position
-Troop withdrawal
-Difficulties
-Negotiations
-Thailand
-United States’ treaty responsibilities
-Philippines, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan
-South Vietnam Conv. No. 246-37 (cont.)
-US forces