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TELCON
Mr. Kissinger/General Vogt
8:45 p. m., , March 19, 1971
K:
Johnny, the President is really fit to be tied.
V:
About what?
K:
About everything that is going on out there. If one of your generals
out there will take an order and give a goddamn briefing and tell
what is going on so that when he goes on the television interview
he can talk off of that. What the strategic significance is and stop
giving sorties of helicopters Give a strategic concept -- what
we think it has achieved.
V:
When is he going on?
K:
Monday night, can they do it Sunday?
V:
They can do it.
K:
What about the air strikes?
V:
It is still the old problem. Another alternative involves all weather
birds. There is an area we have been authorized to go to that we
could do
K:
All weather one?
V:
Fixed targets
coastal areas.
K:
It is too late to get that authorized.
V:
I have an execute ready.
K:
Dong Hoi?
V:
One that begins with Quang -- Quang Khe. Ships come in, pipelines
and all that.
K:
Don't think you will get the authority. How much population?
V:
Nothing in that immediate area, it is wide open.
K:
Yeah, but we can't claim protective reaction.
V:
We can always gin up missile sites and --
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