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ROUND 1. In 1972, as fears of a fuel shortage became widespread for the first time, a federal interdepartmental task force, under the direction of White House Aide Peter Flanigan, started drafting a presidential energy message. Late in the year, the message reachedJohn Ehrlichman, then Nixon's chief domestic adviser, who recognized a fertile political issue and moved to put the planning under his control. Objecting to the draft's urgent tone (its writers dared to use the word crisis), Ehrlichman ordered extensive revisions...
...that there are people in the White House who don't like public broadcasting at all. I don't believe all those stories. However, the names are always the same: Buchanan, who writes the speeches; Charles Colson (until a few weeks ago, political advisory to the President); and Peter Flanigan, the man to whom Clay Whitehead always had to answer. They truly are concerned about these 'talking-head' shows that are broadcast...
...Finch to help run HEW, subsequently moved into the Interior Department to clean out Walter Hickel's supporters, and more recently served as the deputy director of the Committee for the Re-Election of the President. Other aides likely to help tame the bureaucracy include Presidential Assistant Peter Flanigan and Special Consultant Leonard Garment...
Senate Majority Leader, Mike Mansfield, suggested Flanigan might satisfy the committee by submitting a statement, but liberal Democrats say that is not enough. They want to question Flanigan face to face about dealings with ITT. Republican Committee Member, Charles Mathias, of Maryland, spoke of a face-saving compromise that would have Flanigan appear by invitation behind closed doors at an informal session, but so far the White House stands firm on executive privilege...
Ervin, who is sponsoring a bill that would set limits on executive privilege, wants to subpoena Flanigan to appear before the committee. The maneuver failed narrowly the first time on a tie vote along party lines, but Ervin intends to try again. Democratic Senators John McClellan and Birch Bayh were absent when the vote was taken. Bayh is sure to support Ervin, and McClellan may also go along. Then it will be up to Nixon to decide whether to instruct Flanigan to ignore the subpoena, thus risking the further impression that the White House has something to hide...