Date: June 12, 1973
Time: 4:52 pm – 5:27 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
National economy
-Advisors’ views
-Tone
-Compared to President’s views
-Export regulation
-Possible legislation
-Export licensing
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-Trade with the enemy Act
-Export administration Act
-Secretary of Commerce
-Export licensing
-Export administration Act
-Challenges
-Congressional authority
-P.L. 480 [Public Law 480]
-Haig’s conversation with George P. Shultz
-Shultz’s views
-President’s authority
-Notification
-Possible legislation
-Justice Department study
-Possible price freeze
-Congressional relations
-Poll
-House of Representatives
-Senate
-Possible letter from President to Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield
-Hugh Scott
-Vote
-Administration efforts
-Public relations [PR]
-Television
-Shultz, Herbert Stein, John T. Dunlop
-Morale
-Views of Spiro T. Agnew and Peter M. Flanigan
-Possible Congressional action
-Timing
John B. Connally
-Role on White House staff
-Cabinet and Quadriad meetings
-Shultz
-Leonid I. Brezhnev dinner
-National Security Council [NSC]
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-Cabinet and Quadriad meetings
-Energy meetings
Forthcoming energy meeting
-Timing
-Melvin Payne
-William L. Horton
-Health
-Package
-Administrator
-Compared to Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-Clarence M Kelley
Vietnam negotiations
-Communiqué
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Haig’s experience
-Saigon
-Election
-Haig’s recent conversation with Charles Whitehouse
Public relations [PR]
Bryce N. Harlow appointment
-Timing
John D. Ehrlichman’s letter to President, June 11, 1973
-Haig’s view
-President’s view
-Haig’s view
-Ehrlichman’s contact with Haig
-Accuracy of letter
-Criticism of Haig
-Watergate
-Haig’s conversation with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Leonard Garment
-Media relations
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-Loyalty
-Possible resignations
-Agnew
-Shultz, Roy L. Ash
-Connally
-Melvin R. Laird’s appointment
-Laird
-Effect of appointment
-Haig’s conversations with Connally and Haldeman
-Ehrlichman
-Haldeman
-Lawrence M. Higby
-Judgment
-President’s schedule
-Haig’s role
-Accessibility
-Kenneth R. Cole, Jr., Tod R. Hullin
-Ronald L. Ziegler, Ash
White House staff
-Harlow
-Laird’s role
-Haig’s role
-Haig’s role
-Compared to Haldeman, Ehrlichman
-Kissinger, Laird, Harlow
-Morning meetings
-Harlow
-Ziegler
-Anne L. Armstrong, Ash
-Morning meetings
-Laird, Harlow, Ash, Ziegler, Haig, Kissinger, and Shultz
-Frequency
An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 4:52 pm.
President’s schedule
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-Barber
The unknown man left at an unknown time before 5:27 pm.
White House staff meetings
-Frequency
-Wednesdays
-Agenda
Shultz
-Forthcoming conversation with Haig
-President’s plan for national economy
-President’s confidence in Shultz
-Pragmatism
-Morale
-Iceland
-Haig’s conversation with Shultz
-Ehrlichman’s letter to President
-Relationship with Ash
White House staff
-Organization
-Cole’s relationship with Ash
-Ehrlichman’s assignment of responsibility to Ash
-Staff
-Ash
-Responsibilities
-Policy, politites
-Relations with Cole and Shultz
-Cole
-Haig’s assessment
-Possible meeting with President
-Laird’s role
Agnew
-Forthcoming meeting with President and Haig
-Previous meetings with President
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-Distortions
-President’s schedule
-Haig’s conversation with Harlow
-Laird
White House staff
-Morale
-Laird
-Possible resignations
-Cabinet
-Leaks to media
-President’s schedule
-Connally
-Kissinger
-President’s telephone calls
-Frequency
Ehrlichman’s letter to President
-J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
-Views concerning Garment
-John J. Wilson
-Anti-Semitism
White House staff
-Garment’s role
-Workload
-Judgment
-Haig’s view
-Connally’s
-Forthcoming conversation with Haig
-Cabinet, National Security Council [NSC], Energy
-Value
-Haig’s schedule
-Shultz’s role
-Conversations with Haig
-Frequency
-President’s schedule
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-William Clements, Laird
-President’s schedule
-Meetings
-Politics
-Farm legislation
-Shultz, Stein, Haig, and Ash
-Farmers, milk producers
-Attitudes
-President’s schedule
-Ash, Gen. Brent G. Scowcroft, Haig, Ronald L. Ziegler
-Kissinger problem
-Buzhardt
Watergate
-John W. Dean, III
-Forthcoming Ervin Committee testimony
-Conversations with President
-William O. Bittman
-Buzhardt
-After March 21, 1973
-Bittman
-Possible allegations concerning payoffs
-Allegations
-Ehrlichman
-President
-$1,000,000
-Possible duration
-Dean
-Forthcoming testimony of Ehrlichman, Haldeman and Charles W. Colson
-President
Haig left at an unknown time before 5:27 pm.
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