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    "ocrText": "TELCON\nPage 3\nAdmiral Moorer/Mr. Kissinger\nMarch 20, 1971\nK:\nHow would that be?\nM:\nThat would be all right.\nK:\nNow what is your judgment, Tom, about the rate at which these guys\nare going out?\nM:\nWell, I think that Lam is trying to get them out somewhat faster than\nThieu told him to, that's the way it looks to me but even so it's going\nto take them several days to get out, the way it looks. It's a real\ndifficult thing to do of course, when you are in contact.\nK:\nBut do you believe these news stories of routes and so forth?\nthat\nM:\nOh, I don't think as a general statement, no. I think you will have\nan isolated case of a platoon or something where they are falling back\nrapidly. You always have things like that but I don't think the whole\noperation is coming out like that and I'm going to talk to Abrams again\nas soon as he gets up and see what I can find out about it.\nK:\nDo you think these South Vietnamese are going to be very demoralized\ncoming out as they do?\nM:\nWell, I don't think as a whole no. As I say, I think you will find a\nbound to find isolated pieces where they are.\nK:\nWell, we've got to have a critique of the whole thing next week with\na small group.\nM:\nYes, absolutely.\nK:\nWhat do you think?\nM:\nYes, this morning I had them list -- we worked on battalion by battalion\nto see how they performed and get an overview of their capability and\nwhat they have now and so on.\nK:\nYeah, I may get the senior people of WSAG together on Tuesday, do you\nthink that's the right time?\nM:\nYes, that would be better for me cause I got a test (?) on Monday.\nK:\nAll right, SO we'll get them together on Tuesday and just see where\nwe -- what we think we accomplished and where we think the minuses\nare."
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