Date: May 10, 1973

Time: 6:40 pm – 6:48 pm

Location: White House Telephone

Alexander M. Haig, Jr. talked with the President.

Congressional relations

-President’s telephone call to William E. Timmons

-Legislation in House of Representatives

-Effect of vote

-Damage limitation

-Timmons’s role

-Timmons

-State Department, Defense Department

-Responsibility

-Haig’s meeting with Hugh Scott and Gerald R. Ford

-Effect of legislative setback

-North Vietnam

-Hanoi

-Repetition

-Defense Department

-Drafting of legislation

-Comptroller

-Office of Management and Budget [OMB]

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-House Republicans

-Votes

-Defections

-Democrats

-Timmons’s office

-Assistance

-[First name unknown] Saunders

-Defense Department

-J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.

President’s schedule

-Henry A. Kissinger

Kissinger’s forthcoming meeting with Haig

-Work with John B. Connally

-Foreign Policy

Cabinet meeting, May 10, 1973

-Tone

Connally’s schedule

-Lawrence M. Higby [?]

-Work for White House

-Kissinger briefing

President’s situation

-Press reaction

-Haig’s meeting with press

-Cabinet meeting

-Appointments of Dr. James R. Schlesinger and William E. Colby