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Telcon
The President
10:45 am; Apr 8, 1972
P: What is the report this morning from the WSAG meeting?
K: They are beginning to round up the bomb damage estimate. These
massive air strikes are doing considerable good. MR 2 physically
counted in the B3 area 350 dead in one area just with air strike. MR1
2 SVN ranger battalions VS NVN battalion ground action killed 230.
That's confirmed. They are knocking out 5 tanks here, 3 there. Battle
lines stabilized for time being. Weather bad again over NVN.
P: So Moorer knocked off his strikes up there again?
K: Yes.
P: What about B-52 strikes - knocked that off too.
K: No.
P: Doesn't need good weather?
K: I told them we xhould do just to show we have control
P: We have got to have something that is a signal. Who stopped that?
K: Abrams feels he needs more. Has 32 more than he asked for.
P: What became of the ones I told to go out there? I want 200 out there.
Tell Moorer I am raising hell about this. Before we let ourselves in for
any more double-talk are they going to do 52 strikes over some part of
NVN or not?
K: I will order it as soon as I get off the phone.
P: They don't have to throw 100 or 10, just show there is a strike on
that area.
K: I could not 8 agree more.
P: We haven't done one thing in the north that we should have done before
that is the trouble with these people.
K: We need something to show that the old rules don't apply.
P: What x about the trucks?
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