624–24

Conversation No. 624-24

Date: November 24, 1971
Time: 2:40 pm - 3:11 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Najeeb E. Halaby and Peter M. Flanigan; the White House photographer
was present at the beginning of the meeting.

Flanigan's and Halaby's schedules

The President's schedule
-California
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 624-24 (cont.)


Halaby's background and experience
-Pan American Airlines
-US Naval Reserve
-The President
-New Hampshire
-The President
-Phil Watts

Pan American World Airways [Pan Am]
-Corporate earnings
-History and prospects
-Board of Directors
-Donald McI. Kendall
-Robert B. Anderson
-William T. Coleman, Jr.
-William W. Scranton
-Age
-Otis Chandler
-Layoffs
-Competition
-Lyndon B. Johnson's Civil Aeronautics Board [CAB] chairmen
-Route awards
-Numbers
-Non-scheduled airlines
-Routes

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 2:40 pm.

Refreshments

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:11 pm.

Airline routes
-Competition
-Non-scheduled airlines
-Pan Am
-Trans World Airlines [TWA]
-Non-scheduled airlines
-Congress lobby
-Truckers
-Flanigan’s view
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 624-24 (cont.)


-Profitability
-Non-scheduled airlines
-CAB
-Enforcement of affinity group rules
-Secor D. Browne
-Pan Am and TWA
-The President’s view
-Non-scheduled airlines
-CAB
-Browne's performance
-Flanigan’s view

Pan Am
-Shareholders and employees
-Role
-Competitors
-Halaby's forthcoming conversation with Flanigan
-The President's possible conversations
-John B. Connally and John N. Mitchell
-Connally
-Role with American Airlines
-Financial problems
-Possible mergers
-TWA
-Domestic carriers
-Anti-trust laws
-The President’s view
-Herbert Brownwell’s conversation
-TWA
-Flanigan's previous conversation with Charles C. Tillinghast, Jr.
-US competitive position in world
-The President’s view
-Possible merger
-Domestic carriers
-TWA

Pending mergers before CAB
-American Airlines-Western Airlines
-Eastern Airlines
-Delta Airlines-Northeast Airlines
-National Airlines-Northwest Airlines
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 624-24 (cont.)


-American Airlines-Western Airlines
-Department of Transportation
-Department of Justice
-Mitchell
-Legal distinction between domestic and foreign airlines
-Extraterritoriality

TWA
-Financial situation
-Fare increases

Pan Am
-Lack of domestic routes
-Possible government assistance
-Anti-trust
-Scandanavian Airlines System [SAS] and Sabena
-Pooling
-The President’s position
-Supersonic Transport [SST]
-CAB
-Pending legislation
-Tax loss carryback
-Military set-aside
-Cargo
-Loan guarantees
-Compared with railroads
-Vance Hartke bill

Government subsidies
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Airlines and railroads

Pan Am
-Market share
-Wage rates
-Pilots
-Compared with Lufthansa

Air traffic growth
-Economy
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 624-24 (cont.)


Pan Am
-Support for the President's policies
-Vietnam
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Possible resumption of service to PRC
-China National Aviation Corps [CNAC]
-The President's forthcoming trip
-Possible press charter
-Route to Soviet Union and Eastern Europe
-The President's previous conversation with Nikita S. Khrushchev
-Halaby’s view
-The President's forthcoming trips to PRC and Soviet Union
-Press corps numbers
-Possible use of Pan Am
-The President’s view
-Halaby’s view

US-Japan trade
-Peter G. Peterson's group
-David Rockefeller, Halaby, Carl Gustaf [sp?] and George C. McGhee
-US relations with PRC

Japan
-Compared with PRC
-The President’s view
-Okinawa
-Relationship with US
-Relationship with PRC

World powers
-The President’s view
-US
-Western Europe
-Soviet Union
-China
-Japan
-Latin America
-Asia

Japan
-Future role in the world
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 624-24 (cont.)


-US trade policy
-New Economic Policy [NEP]

SST
-Affordability
-Air Force One

Pan Am
-Stewardesses

Halaby and Flanigan left at 3:11 pm.