Conversation: 853-014
Prev: 853-013 Next: 853-015Start Date: Thursday, February 8, 1973 6:21 PM
End Date: Thursday, February 8, 1973 7:33 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Bull, Stephen B.; Campbell, John L.; Ehrlichman, John D.; Cole, Kenneth R., Jr.; White House photographer; Campbell, Jane; DiBona, Charles J.; Shultz, George P.; Scowcroft, Brent G. (Gen.)Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On February 8, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, Stephen B. Bull, John L. Campbell, John D. Ehrlichman, Kenneth R. Cole, Jr., White House photographer, Jane Campbell, Charles J. DiBona, George P. Shultz, and Gen. Brent G. Scowcroft met in the Oval Office of the White House from 1:21 pm to 2:33 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 853-014 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 853-14
Date: February 8, 1973
Time: Unknown between 1:21 pm and 2:33 pm
Location: Oval Office
Stephen B. Bull met with John L. Campbell, Jane Campbell John D. Ehrlichman, and Kenneth R.
Cole, Jr.; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.
California
-House
-Campbell’s office
-Committee
-Food
-New job
-Start date
-Los Angeles
The President entered at 2:15 pm.
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Conversation No. 853-14 (cont’d)
Taxes
[Photograph session]
Campbell's work with the administration
Campbell's new job and residence in California
Presidential gifts
-Pin
-Ash tray
Campbell’s appreciation
Robert H. Finch
-Compared to President’s term in office
The Campbells and Cole left 2:21 p.m.
President’s schedule
-Meeting
-Charles J. DiBona
-George P. Shultz
-Gen. Brent G. Scowcroft
-Henry A. Kissinger
Rogers C. B. Morton
-John C. Whitaker
President’s schedule
-Meeting with DiBona
DiBona, Shultz, John D. Ehrlichman, and Scowcroft entered at 2:23 pm; the White House
photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.
Greetings
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Conversation No. 853-14 (cont’d)
DiBona’s job as special consultant on energy
-Pay
-Importance
-Foreign policy and political problems
Energy
-Oil
-Socialists [?]
-Threat of cutoff from Middle East
-US options
-Middle East
-Iran
-Saudi Arabia
-Gulf States
-Russell B. Long
-Domestic production
-Louisiana
-Conversations with DiBona
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
-Knowledge
-Cabinet
-Sensitivity to issue
-Interior Department
-State Department
-Defense Department
-Treasury Department
DiBona’s job
-Naval Academy
-Political sensitivities
-Previous Selective Service position
-Favors
-Outside advice
-John B. Connally
-Reliability
-Balance between private and public interests
-Dr. Edward E. David, Jr.
-Dr. H. Guyford Stever
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
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Conversation No. 853-14 (cont’d)
-National Science Foundation [NSF]
-Connally
-Option paper
-Meeting with outsiders
-Ideas
-Individual meetings
Energy
-Connally
-US oil markets
-Tankers
-US as consumer
-US tanker fleet
-Long
-Meeting with President and Shultz
-DiBona’s plan
-Tankers
-Oil problems
-Administration responses
-Interrelated problems
-Foreign policy aspects
-Connally
-National Security Council [NSC] concerns
-Soviet Union
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Japan
-Japan
-Middle East concerns
-Companies
Environmentalists
-Problems
-Opposition to nuclear power
-Shale oil mining
-Wyoming
-Russell E. Train
-Involvement
-Oil refinery location
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
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Conversation No. 853-14 (cont’d)
-Alaska pipeline
-Environmental opposition
-Litigation
-Jackson
-Help for administration
-Credentials
DiBona
-Jobs
-Selective Service
-Curtis W. Tarr
-New job
-Special interests
New job
DiBona, et al., left at 2:33 pm.