Conversation No. 694-3

Date: March 27, 1972
Time: 4:08 pm - 4:57 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Rogers C.B. Morton, Alexander M. Haig, Jr., George P. Shultz, Peter M.
Flanigan and John C. Whitaker.

     Greetings
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                 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                 Tape Subject Log
                                   (rev. Sep-01)

Map

Alaskan pipeline
     -Size
     -Court requirement
           -Lead time
     -Report
           -Election
           -Release
           -Environmental impact
     -Court
           -Advance notice
           -Hearings
     -Canada
           Pierre E. Trudeau
     -Political significance
           -Jobs
           -Environmentalists
     -Alaska
           -Possible pipeline route
           -Compared to Canada
           -Jobs
           -Wildlife
     -Existing routes
           -Maine to Montreal
           -Edmonton to the Midwest
           -Edmonton to Montana
           -Edmonton to Seattle
           -Canadians
                  -Press
                        -Environmentalists
     -Canada
           -International corporation
                  -Canadian government
                  -Oil companies
                  -US government
                  -Price
                  -Advantages
                        -Oil market places
                             -Midwest
                             -West Coast
                                  -Southern California
                        -Maritime considerations
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           NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                           Tape Subject Log
                             (rev. Sep-01)
                                                    Conv. No. 694-3 (cont.)
                       -Strikes
-Political considerations
      -Ted Stevens
-Public communications
-Alaska
      -Jobs
      -Stevens’s election
      -Unemployment
-International corporation
-North American oil policy
      -Oil shortage
            -Canada
                  -Natural gas pipeline
                  -Natural gas reserves
-Supreme court
-International corporation
      -Canadian government
      -Congressional approval
      -Canadian finances
-Donald S. Macdonald's statement
-Press coverage of Alaskan pipeline
-Possible pipeline through Canada
      -The President
-Alaska
      -Politics
            -Three electoral votes
      -Land board
            -Jack Horton
            -Government control of land
            -Homesteading
            -Mineral development
            -Native claims legislation
                  -Morton’s view
-Oil company investment losses
-Pipe
      -Purchase by the Department of the Interior
            -Fairbanks
            -Valdez
            -Prudhoe Bay
      -Quality
            -Permafrost
-Environmentalist voting pattern
-Election issues
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          NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                          Tape Subject Log
                            (rev. Sep-01)
                                                          Conv. No. 694-3 (cont.)
     -Environment
     -Vietnam
     -Jobs
     -Shultz
            -Office of Management and Budget [OMB]
-Canada
     -Initiative for pipeline
     -Park land
     -US land parcel
            -International park
     -Natural gas pipeline right of way
            -Arctic wildlife range
-Locations
     -Midwest
     -California
     -Oregon
-Maritime situations
     -Strikes
     -Merchant marine activities
-Canadians
     -Discussions during the President’s trip to Canada
            -Flanigan’s conversation with unnamed Canadian official
     -Court involvement
            -Election
                  -Political situation in Alaska
     -Natural gas line proposal
            -Wall Street Journal
-Election
     -Alaska
     -Court involvement in pipeline planning
            -Environmentalists
     -The President
            -North American oil policy
                  -Robert O. Anderson
            -The People's Republic of China [PRC] trip
            -Canada
                  -National feeling
            -Forthcoming Soviet Union trip
            -Sale of oil leases in Gulf of Mexico
                  -Courts
                        -National Environment Policy Act [NEPA]
                  -Money
-Morton’s forthcoming meeting with a Canadian official [MacDonald?]
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           NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                           Tape Subject Log
                             (rev. Sep-01)
                                                           Conv. No. 694-3 (cont.)
     -Whittier
     -Flanigan
     -Canadian oil flow
           -Morton
-The President's forthcoming trip to Canada
     -Public image
     -Financing for possible US-Canadian pipeline
-MacDonald
     -Forthcoming meeting with Secretary of the Interior
     -Minister of energy
     -Minister of defense
     -Assistant
           -Jack Lawson [?]
     -Meeting with Morton
           -White House involvement
-Maritime considerations for Alaskan pipeline
-Possible US-Canada pipeline
     -Canadians
           -Finances
           -Product
                 -American market place
     -McDonald
           -Meeting with Morton
                 -White House involvement
     -Leaks
     -Environmental impact statement
     -Morton’s forthcoming meeting with MacDonald
     -The President's Canada trip
           -Forthcoming meeting with Trudeau
                 -MacDonald
                 -Morton
                 -Environmentalists
     -MacKenzie Valley
     -Prior meetings with Canadians
           -Oil security
           -Trudeau
                 -John B. Connally
           -Canadian position
                 -Oil productivity
-Alaska
     -Size of oil field
     -Transportation of oil from Alaska
     -Boom or bust
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           NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                           Tape Subject Log
                             (rev. Sep-01)
                                                             Conv. No. 694-3 (cont.)
     -Highway comparison
     -Politics
           -Stevens
-Delay of decision
     -Courts
     -Canadians
     -Politics
           -Michael Gravel
                 -White House involvement
-Decision
     -Shultz
-US negotiations with the Canadians
     -Flanigan
     -Morton and McDonald
     -Trudeau
     -Meetings
-Possible Canadian pipeline
     -Route to the Midwest, Far West
     -Environmentalists
     -US
           -Need for oil
-Alaska
     -Circuit Court of Appeals and Supreme Court
           -Supreme Court justices
                 -Views on the environment
                      -Busing
           -Environmentalists
                 -Delay
                      -One year
-Morton-McDonald meeting
     -Shultz
     -Haig’s role
           -Henry A. Kissinger
     -International corporation
           -Structure
           -Flanigan
     -National security aspects of oil arrangements with Canada
           -Gen. George A. Lincoln
           -Flanigan
           -State Department
           -Oil supply
-Existing pipelines
     -Capacity
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          NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                          Tape Subject Log
                            (rev. Sep-01)
                                                          Conv. No. 694-3 (cont.)
-Shultz’s role
      -Participation in Flanigan’s meeting with Canadians
      -Participation in Morton’s meeting with Canadians
-Report
-Possible Canadian pipeline
      -Morton’s view
            -Political aspects
      -Public acknowledgement of US-Canadian negotiations
            -Alternate to Alaskan pipeline
            -MacDonald’s possible press conference
            -Gravel, Stevens
            -Court battles
            -Alaska
                  -Fairbanks, Anchorage
                        -News conferences by Morton
            -MacDonald’s forthcoming meeting with Flanigan and Morton
                  -Discussion of energy needs
                  -Options
                        -Problems
                              -Environmentalists
            -Environmental statement
                  -Morton
                  -Whitaker
                  -Shultz
                  -Court cases
                        -McDonald-Morton meetings
                              -NEPA requirements
                              -Whitaker’s view
-Oil companies
      -Investments
      -Delay
      -Oil company lawyers
      -Anderson
      -Atlantic Richfield
            -Options
      -Compensation
      -Total investment
            -Pipes
            -Amount
      -Tankers
      -Capital investment
            -Amount
-Canada
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                        NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. Sep-01)
                                                                       Conv. No. 694-3 (cont.)
                 -MacDonald
                      -Forthcoming meetings with Administration officials
                 -Investment
                 -US
                      -Need for oil

     The President's schedule
          -Advertising Council

     Map

     Wildlife

Morton, et. al. left at 4:57 pm.