336–7

Conversation No. 336-7

Date: May 5, 1972
Time: 3:36-3:46 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

Vietnam
-President’s forthcoming speech
-Draft
-Status
-Completion time
-President’s work
-Camp David
-US command structure
-President’s meeting with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Melvin R. Laird

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods at an unknown time between 3:36 and 3:46 pm.

[Conversation No. 336-7A]
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 336-7 (cont.)
President’s schedule
-Camp David departure
-Time

[End of telephone conversation]

Vietnam
-US command structure
-Laird
-The President’s view
-Change
-Commander-In-Chief, Pacific [CINCPAC]
-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-Removal
-Haig
-Allied commander for Southeast Asia
-Reasons
-CINCPAC
-Gen. Bruce Palmer
-An Admiral
-Gen. Frederick C. Weyand
-[Forename unknown] Huxtable [?]
-Lt. Gen. William E. Dupuy [?]
-Gen. John W. Vogt
-Haig
-Abrams
-Ambassadorship
-Spain
-Laird
-Handling
-Meeting with Kissinger
-Abrams
-Possible Chief of Staff
-Transfer from South Vietnam
-Possible Chief of Staff
-Haig
-Palmer
-Kissinger’s view
-Dupuy
-The President’s view
-A Navy Commander
-Palmer
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-01)
Conv. No. 336-7 (cont.)
-An Admiral
-Necessary qualifications
-Kissinger’s meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Soviets
-The President’s view
-Mutual pressures
-Vietnam

Vietnam
-US command
-Changes
-Laird
-William P. Rogers
-Camp David
-Support from Laird and Rogers
-President’s orders
-The President’s view
-Laird, Kissinger, and Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
-Meeting with Rogers
-Timing
-Rogers
-Forthcoming meeting with President
-Command structure change
-President’s previous meeting with Haig
-Reason for change
-Abrams
-Job transfer
-Haig
-Change
-Palmer
-Day
-Announcement
-President’s forthcoming speech
-Laird
-Palmer
-Abrams
-Lines of communication
-Palmer
-Reports to the President
-Laird

Kissinger’s schedule
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 336-7 (cont.)
-New York
-Return

Kissinger left at 3:46 pm.