Date: June 18, 1973
Time: 5:49 pm – 6:14 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with John A. Love and Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
Love’s conversation with Henry A. Kissinger
-President’s previous meeting with Leonid I. Brezhnev
-President’s confidence with negotiations
-Time consuming negotiations
Watergate
-President’s appearance
Energy
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-President’s offer to Love
-Clarification
-President’s view of Energy crisis
-Popular perception
-Crisis
-President’s view
-Cabinet officers
-Agency rivalries
-Interior Department
-Treasury Department
-White House
Henry A. Kissinger entered at an unknown time after 5:49 pm.
President’s forthcoming toast at State Dinner
-Edits to toast
Kissinger left at an unknown time before 6:01 pm.
Energy
-Administrative handling
-Rank of head of program
-Kissinger, Melvin R. Laird, Haig
-White House posting
-Accountability to the President
-Access to President
-Rogers C. B. Morton, George P. Shultz, William E. Simon, Dixy Lee
Ray
-Advisors
-John B. Connally
-Meeting with Soviet representatives
-Range of expertise
-Oil power
-Coal power
-Atomic power
-Range of activities
-Difficulties
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-Congressional liaison
-ESSO Corporation
Energy policy planning
-Foreign policy
-Middle East
-Soviet gas deal
-Alaska pipeline
-Environmentalism
-Energy vs. the environment
-Colorado, New York
-Power supply for US
-Effect of possible allocation
-Dependence on foreign energy
-Importance of energy matters
-World power
-Research and development [R&D]
-Focus
-Hydrogen power
-Love’s conversation with Dr. Edward Teller
-Water production
-Influence of big business
-Oil producers
-Connally
-Power companies
-Continental Edison
-Southern California Edison
-Regional creation of power
-Midwest
-Mountain states
-Supreme Court decision on environment
-Love
-Record on environment
-Perception of love
-Conference on human environment in Stockholm
-Developed compared to undeveloped nations
An unknown man entered at 6:01 pm.
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Haig’s schedule
Haig and the unknown man left at 6:01 pm.
Watergate
-Love’s possible press conference
-President’s May 22, 1973 white paper
-John N. Mitchell
-Press
-Duration
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Allegations concerning President
-President’s May 22, 1973 white paper
-Ervin Committee hearings
-White House cooperation
-John W. Dean, III’s forthcoming testimony
-Postponement
-Reason
-Dean
-Role on White House staff
-Role
-Jeb Stuart Magruder’s perjury
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-Cover-up
-Handling of funds
-Honeymoon
Energy
-Situation in Persian Gulf
-Kissinger
-Libya
-Ann (Daniels) Love statement
-Remarks
Middle East
-Israel
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-Love’s trip
-Saudi Arabia
-Iran
-Israel
-Israelis
-Capabilities
-Soviet Union
-Future collapse
-Arabs
-Military capabilities
-President’s conversations with Golda Meir
-Negotiations
-Israelis characterized
-Israel
-Views of American people
-Anti-Semitism
-Support for Middle East War
-Importance of oil to US
US readiness for war
-Middle East
-Western Europe
-Nuclear destruction
Soviet Union
-Interests
-Economic problems
-Military capability
-Nuclear arsenal
-SS-9 missle
-Multiple Re-Entry Vehicle [MRV]
-Brezhnev
-Health
-Possible successor
-Diplomacy
People’s Republic of China [PRC]
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-Mao Tse-tung and Chou En-lai
-Age
-Health
-Successors
-Capabilities
-Relations with Soviet Union
-US diplomacy
Haig entered at 6:08 pm.
Energy
-Love’s possible role
-Qualifications
-Location of office
-Executive Office Building [EOB]
-Schedule
-San Clemente
-Announcement
-Staff
Love
-Possible contacts with President
-Cabinet meetings
-Salary
Haig and Love left at 6:14 pm.