Date: May 9, 1973
Time: Unknown between 12:03 pm and 12:31 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President talked with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
White House special prosecutor
-Appointment
-Edmund G. (“Pat”) Brown
-Background
-Governor, Attorney-General
-California
-Democrat
-Regard for Presidency [?]
-Advantages
-Name recognition
-Former district attorney
-Effect on committee
-Sensitivity to national interests
-Background
-Attorney general
-Governor
-President’s Democratic opponent, 1962
-Elliot L. Richardson’s choice
-Harvard University
-Effect on John N. Mitchell
-Brown
-President’s recommendation
-Richardson
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