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President/Kissinger
9:30 a.m.
3/22/71
-2-
P: I don't know if they will have much opportunity.
K:
hey are talking around the press and they should say the same thing.
+
P: I didn't know they were talking around. They should know what they are
talking about. But generally speaking I didn't think they were talking with the
press.
K: Just so they are propoerly positioned.
P: OK for tomorrow?
K: Laird, Moorer and that colonel are all set up. Laird is a good x fighter.
I had a go od talk with him this morning.
P: Going all out?
K: Yes.
P: When he gets cornered, no question how he will go.
K: I don't doubt thst in the months ahead this will and vindicate ourselves.
Without that they would have taken Hue by Aug, which would have been a disaster.
P: And we have truned up a lot of stuff there. We have taken the pressure off
the southern half of SVN and Cambodia.
K: And First and Second Corps will die down soon. They are shooting their wad
now.
P: Takes a lot of time to mount it again. What About Bunker and Abrams,
K: I am wondering if it gives the impression of panicky reassessment.
P: You should have thought of that last night.
K: I go back and forth. We havn't done anything on it.
P: Maybe we should wait until Monday.
K: Or Friday.
P: No, Monday and hold the meeting on Friday. I think we should wait -- too
tied in to talking about troops plans.
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