694–3

Conversation No. 694-3

Date: March 27, 1972
Time: 4:08 pm - 4:57 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Rogers C.B. Morton, Alexander M. Haig, Jr., George P. Shultz, Peter M.
Flanigan and John C. Whitaker.

Greetings
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Tape Subject Log
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Alaskan pipeline
-Size
-Court requirement
-Lead time
-Report
-Election
-Release
-Environmental impact
-Court
-Advance notice
-Hearings
-Canada
Pierre E. Trudeau
-Political significance
-Jobs
-Environmentalists
-Alaska
-Possible pipeline route
-Compared to Canada
-Jobs
-Wildlife
-Existing routes
-Maine to Montreal
-Edmonton to the Midwest
-Edmonton to Montana
-Edmonton to Seattle
-Canadians
-Press
-Environmentalists
-Canada
-International corporation
-Canadian government
-Oil companies
-US government
-Price
-Advantages
-Oil market places
-Midwest
-West Coast
-Southern California
-Maritime considerations
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Sep-01)
Conv. No. 694-3 (cont.)
-Strikes
-Political considerations
-Ted Stevens
-Public communications
-Alaska
-Jobs
-Stevens’s election
-Unemployment
-International corporation
-North American oil policy
-Oil shortage
-Canada
-Natural gas pipeline
-Natural gas reserves
-Supreme court
-International corporation
-Canadian government
-Congressional approval
-Canadian finances
-Donald S. Macdonald's statement
-Press coverage of Alaskan pipeline
-Possible pipeline through Canada
-The President
-Alaska
-Politics
-Three electoral votes
-Land board
-Jack Horton
-Government control of land
-Homesteading
-Mineral development
-Native claims legislation
-Morton’s view
-Oil company investment losses
-Pipe
-Purchase by the Department of the Interior
-Fairbanks
-Valdez
-Prudhoe Bay
-Quality
-Permafrost
-Environmentalist voting pattern
-Election issues
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Sep-01)
Conv. No. 694-3 (cont.)
-Environment
-Vietnam
-Jobs
-Shultz
-Office of Management and Budget [OMB]
-Canada
-Initiative for pipeline
-Park land
-US land parcel
-International park
-Natural gas pipeline right of way
-Arctic wildlife range
-Locations
-Midwest
-California
-Oregon
-Maritime situations
-Strikes
-Merchant marine activities
-Canadians
-Discussions during the President’s trip to Canada
-Flanigan’s conversation with unnamed Canadian official
-Court involvement
-Election
-Political situation in Alaska
-Natural gas line proposal
-Wall Street Journal
-Election
-Alaska
-Court involvement in pipeline planning
-Environmentalists
-The President
-North American oil policy
-Robert O. Anderson
-The People's Republic of China [PRC] trip
-Canada
-National feeling
-Forthcoming Soviet Union trip
-Sale of oil leases in Gulf of Mexico
-Courts
-National Environment Policy Act [NEPA]
-Money
-Morton’s forthcoming meeting with a Canadian official [MacDonald?]
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Sep-01)
Conv. No. 694-3 (cont.)
-Whittier
-Flanigan
-Canadian oil flow
-Morton
-The President's forthcoming trip to Canada
-Public image
-Financing for possible US-Canadian pipeline
-MacDonald
-Forthcoming meeting with Secretary of the Interior
-Minister of energy
-Minister of defense
-Assistant
-Jack Lawson [?]
-Meeting with Morton
-White House involvement
-Maritime considerations for Alaskan pipeline
-Possible US-Canada pipeline
-Canadians
-Finances
-Product
-American market place
-McDonald
-Meeting with Morton
-White House involvement
-Leaks
-Environmental impact statement
-Morton’s forthcoming meeting with MacDonald
-The President's Canada trip
-Forthcoming meeting with Trudeau
-MacDonald
-Morton
-Environmentalists
-MacKenzie Valley
-Prior meetings with Canadians
-Oil security
-Trudeau
-John B. Connally
-Canadian position
-Oil productivity
-Alaska
-Size of oil field
-Transportation of oil from Alaska
-Boom or bust
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Sep-01)
Conv. No. 694-3 (cont.)
-Highway comparison
-Politics
-Stevens
-Delay of decision
-Courts
-Canadians
-Politics
-Michael Gravel
-White House involvement
-Decision
-Shultz
-US negotiations with the Canadians
-Flanigan
-Morton and McDonald
-Trudeau
-Meetings
-Possible Canadian pipeline
-Route to the Midwest, Far West
-Environmentalists
-US
-Need for oil
-Alaska
-Circuit Court of Appeals and Supreme Court
-Supreme Court justices
-Views on the environment
-Busing
-Environmentalists
-Delay
-One year
-Morton-McDonald meeting
-Shultz
-Haig’s role
-Henry A. Kissinger
-International corporation
-Structure
-Flanigan
-National security aspects of oil arrangements with Canada
-Gen. George A. Lincoln
-Flanigan
-State Department
-Oil supply
-Existing pipelines
-Capacity
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Sep-01)
Conv. No. 694-3 (cont.)
-Shultz’s role
-Participation in Flanigan’s meeting with Canadians
-Participation in Morton’s meeting with Canadians
-Report
-Possible Canadian pipeline
-Morton’s view
-Political aspects
-Public acknowledgement of US-Canadian negotiations
-Alternate to Alaskan pipeline
-MacDonald’s possible press conference
-Gravel, Stevens
-Court battles
-Alaska
-Fairbanks, Anchorage
-News conferences by Morton
-MacDonald’s forthcoming meeting with Flanigan and Morton
-Discussion of energy needs
-Options
-Problems
-Environmentalists
-Environmental statement
-Morton
-Whitaker
-Shultz
-Court cases
-McDonald-Morton meetings
-NEPA requirements
-Whitaker’s view
-Oil companies
-Investments
-Delay
-Oil company lawyers
-Anderson
-Atlantic Richfield
-Options
-Compensation
-Total investment
-Pipes
-Amount
-Tankers
-Capital investment
-Amount
-Canada
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Sep-01)
Conv. No. 694-3 (cont.)
-MacDonald
-Forthcoming meetings with Administration officials
-Investment
-US
-Need for oil

The President's schedule
-Advertising Council

Map

Wildlife

Morton, et. al. left at 4:57 pm.