Date: July 25, 1972
Time: 3:04 pm – 3:37 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with John A. Hannah, Alexander M. Haig, Jr. and Peter M. Flanigan.
Introduction
-John D. Ehrlichman
Congress
Photograph session
Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 3:04 pm.
Refreshments
Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:37 pm.
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Agency for International Development [AID]
-Hannah’s performance
-Support
-Michael J. Mansfield resolutions
-Appointments
-Purpose
-Population
-Foreign aid
-The President’s interest
-Humanitarianism
-US interests
-Future
-Republican National Convention
-Congress
-Treatment by bureaucracy
-House of Representatives
-Committee system
-Confrontation
-Senate vote of October 1971
-Peter G. Peterson task force
-Previous meeting with the President
-Peterson task force
-Report
-Delay
-Hannah’s action
-State Department
-Intention
-Congress
-State Department
-William P. Rogers
-Bureaucracy
-Middle level
Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 3:04 pm.
Refreshments
Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:37 pm.
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AID
-Future
-Fiscal year 1973
-Personnel
-Staff reduction
-Tenure
Foreign Service
-State Department, AID, US Information Agency [USIA]
-Role
-Retirements
-AID
-Wayne L. Hays
-Authorization bill
-AID
-Foreign service retirement system
-George D. Aiken, J. William Fulbright
AID
-Staff size
-Peterson task force recommendations
-Security assistance package
-Vietnam
-Food production, building of schools, infrastructure, population
planning, building of communities
-Laos, Cambodia
-Congressional failure to approve
-Consequence
-Multilateralism
-Bilateralism
-“Lip service”
United Nations [UN]
-Rudolph A. Peterson
-US aid
-Bilateralism
-The President’s conversation with heads of state
-Rudolph Peterson
-US aid
-Otto E. Passman
-Relationship with the President
-Kurt Waldheim
-Comments of July 24, 1972
-Robert S. McNamara
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-World Bank
-US aid
AID
-Bilateral compared to multilateral aid
-US ambassadors
-Awareness of aid programs
-UN Development Program [UNDP]
-World Bank
-US Ambassador to Jamaica [Vincent de Roulet]
-UN program in Jamaica
-UN staff size
-UNDP
-US aid
-1972 campaign
-Studies
-International conditions
-Diversity
Brazil, Nigeria, Indonesia
-Markets, raw materials
-Bilateralism
-Administrative placement
-Ambassadors
-Peterson
-White House, State Department
-Military programs
-Latin America, Indonesia
-Political stability
-Bilateral compared to multilateral aid
-The President’s earlier request for study
-Passman
-Asian Development Bank
-Inter-American Development Bank
-John B. Connally
-World Bank
-India
-MacNamara
-US aid
-Use
-Ambassadors
-Jamaican example
-Raw materials markets
-Conditions
-Administrative placement
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-State Deparmetn
-Rogers, John N. (“Jack”) Irwin II
-Multinational view
-Bilateral compared to multilateral aid
-Congress
-Fulbright, unknown person
-Administrative placement
-1972 election
-Foreign Service retirements
-Budget
-Future
-Hannah’s forthcoming conversations
-Flanigan
-Henry A. Kissinger
-George P. Shultz
-Connally
-Connally’s views
-Raw materials
-View of multilateralism
-Agriculture Department program
-Public Law [PL] 480
-Program
-Congressional relations
-Program coordination
-Report to William Proxmire
-Proxmire
-Appropriations
-Passman
-Proxmire
-Meeting with Allen J. Ellender and John L. McClellan
-Russell B. Long, Milton R. Young, Gale W. McGee
-Program coordination
-Aid giving countries
-Activities
-Scope
-Number of countries
-US aid
-Development Assistance Committee [DAC]
-Paris
Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:04 pm.
The President’s schedule
-Cabinet Room
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Bull left at an unknown time before 3:37 pm.
-State Department
-Foreign Service officers
-Authorization bill
-Dr. Thomas E. (“Doc”) Morgan
-Lee H. Hamilton
-Background
-Passman
-Meeting with Hannah
-Proxmire
-Congressional relations
-David M. Abshire
-William E. Timmons
-Passman’s schedule
-Primary
-Appropriations bill
-Appropriations bill
-Prospects
-Continuing resolution
Presentation of gift by the President
-Cufflinks
-Bull
Hannah et al. left at 3:37 pm.