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PRESIDENT RICHARD M. NIXON'S NEWS CONFERENCE #30
Held in the Briefing Room
At the White House
Washington, D. C.
March 2, 1973
At 11:08 A.M. EST (Friday)
Official White House Transcript
THE PRESIDENT: I have one announcement for those
who are members of the traveling press.
We have now set the date for the San Clemente meeting
with President Thieu, and it will be April 2nd and 3rd. Those
of you who desire to go should make your plans, if you could,
to leave on the Friday before, because I am going to California
to attend a dinner on that occasion for John Ford on Saturday
night, the 31st, and the meetings will start the following
Tuesday and will be concluded that week.
I will take any other questions you have.
QUESTION: Mr. President, there has been considerable
speculation in the interpretation after the Laos cease-fire
pact to the effect that the Communists gained more out of that
than they did out of the Geneva Accords, and also a situation
in Cambodia that no one seems to be able to interpret. Origi-
nally, you hinged your peace settlement on all of Indochina.
What is your expectation in these areas, and how much
confidence do you have that stability will be maintained?
THE PRESIDENT: Mr. Sheldon, first with regard to Laos,
the agreement there was made by the Royal Laotian Government,
and it is an agreement which, of course, we supported and we
accept. I have noted that various elements within Laos have
questioned the decision by Souvanna Phouma to make the agree-
ment that he did, but the key to that agreement, and what will
make the cease-fire work is an unequivocal provision in the