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853–14
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Stephen B. Bull
  • John L. Campbell
  • John D. Ehrlichman
  • Kenneth R. Cole
  • White House photographer
  • Jane Campbell
  • Brent G. Scowcroft
February 8, 1973
Conversation No. 853-14

Date: February 8, 1973
Time: Unknown between 1:21 pm and 2:33 pm
Location: Oval Office

Stephen B. Bull met with John L. Campbell, Jane Campbell John D. Ehrlichman, and Kenneth R.
Cole, Jr.; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

California
-House
-Campbell’s office
-Committee
-Food
-New job
-Start date
-Los Angeles

The President entered at 2:15 pm.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Feb.-10)
Conversation No. 853-14 (cont’d)



Taxes

[Photograph session]

Campbell's work with the administration

Campbell's new job and residence in California

Presidential gifts
-Pin
-Ash tray

Campbell’s appreciation

Robert H. Finch
-Compared to President’s term in office

The Campbells and Cole left 2:21 p.m.

President’s schedule
-Meeting
-Charles J. DiBona
-George P. Shultz
-Gen. Brent G. Scowcroft
-Henry A. Kissinger

Rogers C. B. Morton
-John C. Whitaker

President’s schedule
-Meeting with DiBona

DiBona, Shultz, John D. Ehrlichman, and Scowcroft entered at 2:23 pm; the White House
photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

Greetings
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Feb.-10)
Conversation No. 853-14 (cont’d)


DiBona’s job as special consultant on energy
-Pay
-Importance
-Foreign policy and political problems

Energy
-Oil
-Socialists [?]
-Threat of cutoff from Middle East
-US options
-Middle East
-Iran
-Saudi Arabia
-Gulf States
-Russell B. Long
-Domestic production
-Louisiana
-Conversations with DiBona
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
-Knowledge
-Cabinet
-Sensitivity to issue
-Interior Department
-State Department
-Defense Department
-Treasury Department

DiBona’s job
-Naval Academy
-Political sensitivities
-Previous Selective Service position
-Favors
-Outside advice
-John B. Connally
-Reliability
-Balance between private and public interests
-Dr. Edward E. David, Jr.
-Dr. H. Guyford Stever
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Feb.-10)
Conversation No. 853-14 (cont’d)


-National Science Foundation [NSF]
-Connally
-Option paper
-Meeting with outsiders
-Ideas
-Individual meetings

Energy
-Connally
-US oil markets
-Tankers
-US as consumer
-US tanker fleet
-Long
-Meeting with President and Shultz
-DiBona’s plan
-Tankers
-Oil problems
-Administration responses
-Interrelated problems
-Foreign policy aspects
-Connally
-National Security Council [NSC] concerns
-Soviet Union
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Japan
-Japan
-Middle East concerns
-Companies

Environmentalists
-Problems
-Opposition to nuclear power
-Shale oil mining
-Wyoming
-Russell E. Train
-Involvement
-Oil refinery location
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Feb.-10)
Conversation No. 853-14 (cont’d)


-Alaska pipeline
-Environmental opposition
-Litigation
-Jackson
-Help for administration
-Credentials

DiBona
-Jobs
-Selective Service
-Curtis W. Tarr
-New job
-Special interests

New job

DiBona, et al., left at 2:33 pm.
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