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    "ocrText": "TELECON\nThe President\n(Brought in 3/21/71)\n(Taped 3/20/71?)\npage 2\nK : And to improve their general situation.\nP : Yeah. You know, one thing Moorer pointed out. He\nsaid that there's never been\nthey've never had so many\nof their people concentrated i n in as limited an area in\nthe whole war. And as I pointed out to him, I said well that's\na hell of an opportunity for our air, istn't it. And it is.\nK : Right.\nP :\nWe must be just punishing them like hell\nK:\non they must be taking\nB : so Sixty B-52 or whatever it was strikes yesterday\nand in the night. He said the tactical air, gunships, helos,\nand the rest. Jesus Christ, I mean these people have got to\nbe taking a hell of a beating.\nun\nK : on we are using) the best part of those regiments they've\ngot there. They're not going to do any fighting the rest of\nthis year. It's one of those battles Mr. President that one\nleads about where both sides are exhausted, the other side just\nis hanging in there a little longer but basically if they were\nAmerican trooms there they would be breaking now.\nP :\nIf we had American troops there\nK :\nI mean if we had American troops there the other side\nwould be breaking now.\nP: Yeah if we had American troops what you'd do is to\nwhin the division in behind them and go in a knock the damn\nhing off.\nK : Exactly.\nP: This may be the opportunity of the war.\nK: oh exactly, but I think they are taking a fearful beating.\nP: My view is though, I really think more and more on balance\neven though getting out is going to be a problem, on balance we're\nbetter to get out and have the damn thing off television. And\nthen we're\ncuase it isn't\neven their staying in\nwouldn't change anything in terms of what our offer would be\nor\nthe rest. I think that the kind of a beating we're giving them\nis not going to be\nthey can claim victory; certainly South\nVietnam will claim victory and that's that."
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