40–71

Conversation No. 40-71

Date: June 13, 1973
Time: 1:41 pm - 1:46 pm
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

[See also Conversation No. 445-11]

Energy position
-William W. Scranton

-Telephone call to Haig

-Acceptance

-President’s schedule

-Meeting with Scranton
-President’s respect for Scranton
-Mary Scranton
-Key Biscayne
-Haig’s enthusiasm for Scranton’s appointment
-President’s assessment of Scranton’s positions
-Vietnam War
-Student protests
-Scranton’s skills
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Conversation No. 40-71 (cont’d)

John B. Connally
-Conversation with Haig
-Connally’s role on White House staff

-Speeches

-Cabinet

-Residence in Texas


Bryce N. Harlow
-Schedule
-Conversation with Haig
-Announcement of appointment

Earl L. Butz
-Haig’s and President’s telephone call to Rose Mary Woods

-Leonid I. Brezhnev dinner

-Lists


Press relations
-White House agenda

Watergate
-White House response

-Lawyers

-Ronald L. Ziegler

-Timing

-John W. Dean, III

-Transactional immunity

-John J. Sirica

-Possible perjury

-President’s records of meetings

-Meeting with J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.

-Dean’s lawyers’ knowledge

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