Date: May 29, 1973
Time: Unknown between 12:15 pm and 12:31 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
Watergate
-President’s previous meeting with bipartisan Congressional leaders
-White House response
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-J. William Fulbright’s reaction
White House staff organization
-President’s meeting with William P. Rogers
-Spirit
-Statements
-Continuance in office
-Effect of Watergate issue
-Conversation with Haig
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Effectiveness
-John B. Connally
-Haig’s conversation with Connally, May 29
-Economics
-Suggestions
-Energy czar
-Haig’s view
-Interlocking issues
-Czar
-Staff
-Knowledge
-John J. McCloy’s role
-Staff
-Peter M. Flanigan
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-Former presidents of Shell and Texaco
-Knowledge of industry
-Age
-Ego
-McCloy
-Aken’s [sp?] [First name unknown] role
-Texaco
-Shell
-Flanigan
-Foreign Service officer
-Roy L. Ash
-Role on White House staff
-Personality
-Relations with Congress and bureaucracy
-Mistrust
Bureaucracy
-Connally’s views
-Problem for administration
-Cabinet reorganization
-President’s previous meeting with bipartisan Congressional leaders
-Reaction
-Republicans
-Hugh Scott
-Gerald R. Ford
White House staff organization
-Domestic side
-Inertia
-Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.
-Bryce N. Harlow’s role
-George H. W. Bush
-Congress
-Benefit to Haig
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Office of Management and Budget [OMB]’s role
-Ash
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-Policy
-Problem for administration
-Bureaucracy
-Unsettlement
-Fiscal responsibility
-Management practices
John B. Connally
-Role in administration
-View on cabinet
-View on White House response to Watergate
-President’s activities
-High profile public exposure
-Platform
-Labor
-Auto workers
-Farmers
-Beef industry
-West Coast
-Washington Press Corps
-Assessments
-Haig’s view
-Precision
-Public panic
-Views on stock market
-Wall Street
Stock market
-Fluctuations
-Effects
-H. Ross Perot
An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 12:15 pm.
President’s schedule
The unknown man left at an unknown time before 12:25 pm.
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Stock market
-Wall Street
-Congress
-Washington Press Corps
-Effect on Arthur F. Burns
-Jewish community
-Confidence
-Cambodia
-Buying
-Polling
-Shultz’s view
-Panic
-Caution
Watergate
-Haig’s conversation with Connally
-White Paper
-Cabinet
-Republican leadership
-Watergate
-White Paper
-Effect
-John W. Dean, III’s documents
-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters’s memoranda of
conversations [memcons]
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.
-Plumbers operation
-Haig’s role on White House staff
-Announcement
White House staff reorganization
-Rogers
-Compromise
-Continuance in office
-Conflict with Kissinger
-Effect on administration
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-Connally
-Conversation with Haig
-Kissinger’s continuance in office
-Style
Haig’s forthcoming conversation with Rogers
President’s schedule
-Journalists
Haig left at an unknown time before 12:31 pm.
-Expectations
-Cures
-Research
-Personalities
-Politics
-Stone
-Professionalism
-Federal Health Survey
-Stone’s role
-Politics
-Management
-Priorities
-Diseases
-Focus
-Fiscal discussions
-Cancer
-Research
-Objective
-Experiments
-Basic compared to applied
-Accountability
-Leadership
-Morale
-Dedication
Health, Education and Welfare [HEW] budget for Fiscal Year 1974
-Social security
-Weinberger’s dealings with Appropriations Committee
-Education
-Successes
-Elford A. Cederberg’s concern
-Statement
-Revenue sharing
-administration strategy
-Timing
-Funding
-Programs
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-Effectiveness
-Weinburger’s conversation with Cederberg
Oval Office gift
-White House correspondents
-Reproduction
-Williamsburg
Weinberger et al. left at 12:45 pm.