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- William W. Scranton
- UNKNOWN
- President Richard M. Nixon
- Alexander M. Haig
June 14, 1973
Conversation No. 940-10
Date: June 14, 1973
Time: Unknown between 11:29 am and 12:11 pm
Location: Oval Office
William W. Scranton met with an unknown man.
-28-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 940-10 (cont’d)
Seating arrangements
The President and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. entered at 11:31 am.
Greetings
-Grip
Scranton
-Possible role with administration
-Haig’s conversation with Scranton
-Delay
-Conversations
-Mary Lowe Chamberlain
-Scranton’s background
-Politics
-Respect by governors, press
-Conservatives
-Energy
-Workload
-Gasoline
-Importance in US, Europe, Japan
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Middle East
-Scranton’s previous visit
-Even-handedness
-Jews
-Libyan confiscation of Bunker Hunt holdings, June 13, 1973
-Requirements for position
-Interested parties
-Oilmen
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Compared to Gen. George S. Patton, Jr., and Gen.
Omar N. Bradley
-Conflict
-George P. Shultz, William E. Simon
-Rogers C. B. Morton
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Defense Department
-29-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 940-10 (cont’d)
-Elk Hills
-Atomic Energy Commission [AEC]
-Possible gas deal
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Costs
-Export-import bank
-Politics
-Japan
-Anti-trust laws
-American flag carriers
-John B. Connally
-Pan American
-Competitions with France, Britain
-Oil companies, oilmen
-Soviet Union, Libyan actions
-Coordination
-Peter M. Flannigan
-Unknown, Standard Oil of New Jersey and Texaco official
-Energy
-US needs
-Coordination
-Alaska pipeline
-Middle East
-Scranton’s possible dealings with leaders
-Compared to William P. Rogers
-[Shah of Iran] Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
-Forthcoming visit to US
-Gulf States
-Rogers’s view
-Libya, Iraq, Algeria
-Saudi Arabia
-Malik Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz al-Saud [Faisal, King
of Saudi Arabia]
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[National security]
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 940-10 (cont’d)
[Durations: 2s ]
JEWS
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
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Scranton
-Possible role with administration
-Energy
-Middle East
-Saudi Arabia
-[Middle East peace negotiations]
-[Israel]
-US policy
-Richard M. Helms
-Iran
-Nuclear power
-Opposition
-Youth, environmentalists
-Importance
-Safety
-Edison Plant, San Clemente
-President’s forthcoming conversations with
Brezhnev
-Peaceful uses of nuclear energy
-Coal
-US reserves
-Liquefaction
-Shale
-Solar power
-Supply
-Demand
-Rationing of gasoline
-Automobile fuel economy
-31-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 940-10 (cont’d)
-Lincoln Continental
-Foreign policy
-Morton, Simon, Charles J. DiBona, John B. Connally
-Connally
-Group
-“Energy Czar”
-Middle East
-Venezuela
-Elections
-Confiscation
-Alaska pipeline
-Energy needs
-Supply
-Congo
-Coordination
-Scranton’s background as governor of
Pennsylvania
-Requirements
-Workload
-Morton
-Plan
-Assistants
-Interior Department
-Elk Hills, California [Naval Reserve]
-Offshore drilling
-Taxes, anti-trust, foreign policy
-Scranton’s recent conversation with Haig
President’s foreign policy accomplishments
-Scranton’s view
-Letters
-Future
-People’s Republic of China [PRC], Soviet Union
-US relations with
-Vietnam
-PRC, Soviet Union
-President’s conversations with Scranton in 1967 and 1968
-New York
-US relations with West Europe
-32-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 940-10 (cont’d)
-Lyndon B. Johnson
Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:31 am.
Folder
-Letter from Brezhnev
Bull left at an unknown time before 12:11 pm.
President’s foreign policy accomplishments
-Soviet Union
-Vietnam
-PRC
-President’s conversations with Edward W. Brooke
-PRC
-Relations with US
-Friendship
-Population
-Nuclear power
-Future
Scranton
-Possible role with administration
-Energy
-Administration of program
-Integration
-Scranton’s conversation with President
-President’s Advisory Commission on Disarmament negotiations
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Forthcoming Brezhnev visit
-SALT
-Principles
-[David] Kenneth Rush
-U. Alexis Johnson
Scranton
-Possible role with administration
-Energy
-Possible trip to Europe
-33-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 940-10 (cont’d)
-Middle East
-Libya
-US energy needs
-Compared to Europe, Japan
-1956 Suez War
-NSC staff
Kissinger, Rogers
-DiBona
-Experience
-Nuclear power
-Foreign policy
-Anti-trust
-Georges J. R. Pompidou, Edward R. G. Heath, Willy Brandt, and
Tanaka’s meetings with President
Japan-Soviet Union relations
-Tanaka’s possible trip to Soviet Union
-Cancellation
-Kurile Islands
-Speech
-US return
-Soviet return
-Population
-Volcanoes
Scranton
-Possible role with administration
-Energy
-Consumers’ knowledge
-President’s address to nation addressing price control measures,
June 13, 1973
-Gasoline prices
-Supply
-Gasoline supplies
-Refineries
-Research and Development [R & D]
-Earlier effort
-Inadequacy
-June 16, 1973 announcement
-34-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 940-10 (cont’d)
-June 16, 1973 announcement
-Content
-Rationing
-Volunteerism
-Bureaucracy
-R & D
-Congressional relations
-Japan, Soviet Union
-Compared to US
-Atomic Energy Commission [AEC]
-Dixie Lee Ray
-Nuclear power
-Laurance S. Rockefeller
-Environmentalism
-Consolidated Edison [Con Ed] plant in New York
-Jacob K. Javits
-Reserves
-Con Ed
-New York
-New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New England,
Maryland
-Independent petroleum distributors
-Leadership meeting, June 13, 1973
-Senate, House of Representatives
-Majors
-Trucks
-Farmers
-Simon
-James T. Lynn
-Scranton
-Integrity
-Oil of New Jersey
-Bunker Hunt
-Credibility
-Conflict resolution
-Eisenhower
-Eisenhower
-Requirements for position
-Morton, Simon, Ray
-35-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 940-10 (cont’d)
-Political skills
-State and Defense Departments
-Mary Scranton
President’s schedule
-Scranton, Laird, Haig, Bryce N. Harlow
-Scranton’s recent conversation with Harlow
-Kissinger
Kissinger
-Schedule
-“Extracurricular activities”
-Meetings
-Learning
-Vietnam negotiations
-Communique
-Improvement
-President’s messages to Nguyen Van Thieu
-Tone
-Timing
-Congressional aid
-South Vietnam
Israel
-US commitments
-Arab states
-American Jews
-Kissinger
-Background
-Arabs’ view
-Pressure
-President’s view
-Commitments
-Pressure
-Egyptians
-Brezhnev
-Interim settlement
-General principles
-Elections
-36-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 940-10 (cont’d)
-Compared to US
-American Jews
-Jewish emigration from Soviet Union
-Jackson-Vanik amendment
-Effect
-Ukrainians
-Meeting with President concerning Jackson-Vanik amendment, April 19,
1973
-Most-Favored Nation [MFN] trade status
-Arms limitation
-Anti-Semitism
-Security guarantees
-Soviet Union
-Military aid
-Jets
-Future
-President’s conversations with Golda Meir
-Military conflict with Arab States
-Timing
-Negotiations
-Soviet Union
-Aid to Arabs
-Munitions pilots
-US
Shah of Iran
-Forthcoming trip to US
-Toughness
-Views of President
-Scranton’s conversation with Shah
-Accomplishments
-Persian Gulf
-Land reform
-President’s trips to Tehran in 1953, 1967
-Gross National Product [GNP]
-Growth
-Japan
Scranton
-37-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 940-10 (cont’d)
-Possible role with administration
-Energy
-Service to US
-Importance to President
-Challenge
-Executive Office Building [EOB]
-Oil
-Farmers
-Strategy
-Staffing
-Liaison with Cabinet
-President’s role
-Foreign policy
-Oil wells
-Depth and cost
-President’s experience as lawyer
President’s schedule
-Brezhnev
Scranton
-Possible role with administration
-Notification
-Timing
Letter from Brezhnev
-Correspondence
-Tone
-San Clemente
-[Scranton’s reading]
-Soviets’ sense of humor
-President’s meetings with Brezhnev
-Scranton’s service in Eisenhower administration
-Scranton
-Possible role with administration
-Mary Scranton’s view
-Possible telephone call from President
-Supercabinet
-38-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 940-10 (cont’d)
-Connally
-Kissinger, Laird, President, Haig
-Scranton’s forthcoming conversation with Mrs. Scranton
-Thelma C. (“Pat”). Nixon’s and President’s view of Scrantons
-Schedule
-Rose Mary Woods
-Brezhnev dinner
Scranton and Haig left at 12:11 pm.
Date: June 14, 1973
Time: Unknown between 11:29 am and 12:11 pm
Location: Oval Office
William W. Scranton met with an unknown man.
-28-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 940-10 (cont’d)
Seating arrangements
The President and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. entered at 11:31 am.
Greetings
-Grip
Scranton
-Possible role with administration
-Haig’s conversation with Scranton
-Delay
-Conversations
-Mary Lowe Chamberlain
-Scranton’s background
-Politics
-Respect by governors, press
-Conservatives
-Energy
-Workload
-Gasoline
-Importance in US, Europe, Japan
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Middle East
-Scranton’s previous visit
-Even-handedness
-Jews
-Libyan confiscation of Bunker Hunt holdings, June 13, 1973
-Requirements for position
-Interested parties
-Oilmen
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Compared to Gen. George S. Patton, Jr., and Gen.
Omar N. Bradley
-Conflict
-George P. Shultz, William E. Simon
-Rogers C. B. Morton
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Defense Department
-29-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 940-10 (cont’d)
-Elk Hills
-Atomic Energy Commission [AEC]
-Possible gas deal
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Costs
-Export-import bank
-Politics
-Japan
-Anti-trust laws
-American flag carriers
-John B. Connally
-Pan American
-Competitions with France, Britain
-Oil companies, oilmen
-Soviet Union, Libyan actions
-Coordination
-Peter M. Flannigan
-Unknown, Standard Oil of New Jersey and Texaco official
-Energy
-US needs
-Coordination
-Alaska pipeline
-Middle East
-Scranton’s possible dealings with leaders
-Compared to William P. Rogers
-[Shah of Iran] Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
-Forthcoming visit to US
-Gulf States
-Rogers’s view
-Libya, Iraq, Algeria
-Saudi Arabia
-Malik Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz al-Saud [Faisal, King
of Saudi Arabia]
*****************************************************************
BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[National security]
-30-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 940-10 (cont’d)
[Durations: 2s ]
JEWS
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
*****************************************************************
Scranton
-Possible role with administration
-Energy
-Middle East
-Saudi Arabia
-[Middle East peace negotiations]
-[Israel]
-US policy
-Richard M. Helms
-Iran
-Nuclear power
-Opposition
-Youth, environmentalists
-Importance
-Safety
-Edison Plant, San Clemente
-President’s forthcoming conversations with
Brezhnev
-Peaceful uses of nuclear energy
-Coal
-US reserves
-Liquefaction
-Shale
-Solar power
-Supply
-Demand
-Rationing of gasoline
-Automobile fuel economy
-31-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 940-10 (cont’d)
-Lincoln Continental
-Foreign policy
-Morton, Simon, Charles J. DiBona, John B. Connally
-Connally
-Group
-“Energy Czar”
-Middle East
-Venezuela
-Elections
-Confiscation
-Alaska pipeline
-Energy needs
-Supply
-Congo
-Coordination
-Scranton’s background as governor of
Pennsylvania
-Requirements
-Workload
-Morton
-Plan
-Assistants
-Interior Department
-Elk Hills, California [Naval Reserve]
-Offshore drilling
-Taxes, anti-trust, foreign policy
-Scranton’s recent conversation with Haig
President’s foreign policy accomplishments
-Scranton’s view
-Letters
-Future
-People’s Republic of China [PRC], Soviet Union
-US relations with
-Vietnam
-PRC, Soviet Union
-President’s conversations with Scranton in 1967 and 1968
-New York
-US relations with West Europe
-32-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 940-10 (cont’d)
-Lyndon B. Johnson
Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:31 am.
Folder
-Letter from Brezhnev
Bull left at an unknown time before 12:11 pm.
President’s foreign policy accomplishments
-Soviet Union
-Vietnam
-PRC
-President’s conversations with Edward W. Brooke
-PRC
-Relations with US
-Friendship
-Population
-Nuclear power
-Future
Scranton
-Possible role with administration
-Energy
-Administration of program
-Integration
-Scranton’s conversation with President
-President’s Advisory Commission on Disarmament negotiations
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Forthcoming Brezhnev visit
-SALT
-Principles
-[David] Kenneth Rush
-U. Alexis Johnson
Scranton
-Possible role with administration
-Energy
-Possible trip to Europe
-33-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 940-10 (cont’d)
-Middle East
-Libya
-US energy needs
-Compared to Europe, Japan
-1956 Suez War
-NSC staff
Kissinger, Rogers
-DiBona
-Experience
-Nuclear power
-Foreign policy
-Anti-trust
-Georges J. R. Pompidou, Edward R. G. Heath, Willy Brandt, and
Tanaka’s meetings with President
Japan-Soviet Union relations
-Tanaka’s possible trip to Soviet Union
-Cancellation
-Kurile Islands
-Speech
-US return
-Soviet return
-Population
-Volcanoes
Scranton
-Possible role with administration
-Energy
-Consumers’ knowledge
-President’s address to nation addressing price control measures,
June 13, 1973
-Gasoline prices
-Supply
-Gasoline supplies
-Refineries
-Research and Development [R & D]
-Earlier effort
-Inadequacy
-June 16, 1973 announcement
-34-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 940-10 (cont’d)
-June 16, 1973 announcement
-Content
-Rationing
-Volunteerism
-Bureaucracy
-R & D
-Congressional relations
-Japan, Soviet Union
-Compared to US
-Atomic Energy Commission [AEC]
-Dixie Lee Ray
-Nuclear power
-Laurance S. Rockefeller
-Environmentalism
-Consolidated Edison [Con Ed] plant in New York
-Jacob K. Javits
-Reserves
-Con Ed
-New York
-New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New England,
Maryland
-Independent petroleum distributors
-Leadership meeting, June 13, 1973
-Senate, House of Representatives
-Majors
-Trucks
-Farmers
-Simon
-James T. Lynn
-Scranton
-Integrity
-Oil of New Jersey
-Bunker Hunt
-Credibility
-Conflict resolution
-Eisenhower
-Eisenhower
-Requirements for position
-Morton, Simon, Ray
-35-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 940-10 (cont’d)
-Political skills
-State and Defense Departments
-Mary Scranton
President’s schedule
-Scranton, Laird, Haig, Bryce N. Harlow
-Scranton’s recent conversation with Harlow
-Kissinger
Kissinger
-Schedule
-“Extracurricular activities”
-Meetings
-Learning
-Vietnam negotiations
-Communique
-Improvement
-President’s messages to Nguyen Van Thieu
-Tone
-Timing
-Congressional aid
-South Vietnam
Israel
-US commitments
-Arab states
-American Jews
-Kissinger
-Background
-Arabs’ view
-Pressure
-President’s view
-Commitments
-Pressure
-Egyptians
-Brezhnev
-Interim settlement
-General principles
-Elections
-36-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 940-10 (cont’d)
-Compared to US
-American Jews
-Jewish emigration from Soviet Union
-Jackson-Vanik amendment
-Effect
-Ukrainians
-Meeting with President concerning Jackson-Vanik amendment, April 19,
1973
-Most-Favored Nation [MFN] trade status
-Arms limitation
-Anti-Semitism
-Security guarantees
-Soviet Union
-Military aid
-Jets
-Future
-President’s conversations with Golda Meir
-Military conflict with Arab States
-Timing
-Negotiations
-Soviet Union
-Aid to Arabs
-Munitions pilots
-US
Shah of Iran
-Forthcoming trip to US
-Toughness
-Views of President
-Scranton’s conversation with Shah
-Accomplishments
-Persian Gulf
-Land reform
-President’s trips to Tehran in 1953, 1967
-Gross National Product [GNP]
-Growth
-Japan
Scranton
-37-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 940-10 (cont’d)
-Possible role with administration
-Energy
-Service to US
-Importance to President
-Challenge
-Executive Office Building [EOB]
-Oil
-Farmers
-Strategy
-Staffing
-Liaison with Cabinet
-President’s role
-Foreign policy
-Oil wells
-Depth and cost
-President’s experience as lawyer
President’s schedule
-Brezhnev
Scranton
-Possible role with administration
-Notification
-Timing
Letter from Brezhnev
-Correspondence
-Tone
-San Clemente
-[Scranton’s reading]
-Soviets’ sense of humor
-President’s meetings with Brezhnev
-Scranton’s service in Eisenhower administration
-Scranton
-Possible role with administration
-Mary Scranton’s view
-Possible telephone call from President
-Supercabinet
-38-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 940-10 (cont’d)
-Connally
-Kissinger, Laird, President, Haig
-Scranton’s forthcoming conversation with Mrs. Scranton
-Thelma C. (“Pat”). Nixon’s and President’s view of Scrantons
-Schedule
-Rose Mary Woods
-Brezhnev dinner
Scranton and Haig left at 12:11 pm.