Conversation No. 44-019
Date: March 27, 1973
Time: Unknown between 12:05 pm and 12:10 pm
Location: White House Telephone
Pierre E. Trudeau talked with the President.
[See also Conversation No. 423-3A]
The President’s telephone call to Trudeau
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[Previous National Security (B) withdrawal reviewed under MDR guidelines case number
LPRN-T-MDR-2014-008. Segment declassified on 09/15/2017. Archivist: MAS]
[National Security]
[044-019-w001]
[Duration: 5m 47s]
International Commission of Control and Supervision [ICCS]
-Continued Canadian participation
-Decision of Pierre E. Trudeau’s cabinet on March 26, 1973
-Postponement of decision
-Reevaluate in May
-The President’s opinion
-The President's March 27, 1973 conversation with Henry A. Kissinger
-Release of Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Number of incidents
-North Vietnamese goals
-Economy
-Canadian intelligence
-Symbolism of decision
-Helpful towards peace
-The President’s opinion
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White House Tapes of the Nixon Administration, 1971-1973
Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, NARA Online Public Access Catalog Identifier: 597542
-Desire for peace in Vietnam
-US and Canadian roles in postwar Vietnam
-Canadian public opinion
-Very critical
-Preference for negotiation
-Political effects for Pierre E. Trudeau
-Canada's role in world
-Use of Canadian troops
-US efforts
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Democratic Republic of Vietnam [DRV]
-Government of Vietnam [GVN]
-Pierre E. Trudeau’s forthcoming announcement to Parliament
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