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OCR Page 1 of 36THE PRESIDENT HAS SEEN
DIGEST OF RECENT COMMENT
December 5, 1973
ENERGY
Beneath lead head "Energy Czar: Calm Words Amid a Flurry of
Grim News, 11 Monitor's Ellis leads: "Economic gloom deepens
across US as Simon prepares to grasp nottle of the crisis. 11 The
economic cloud has at least a thin silver lining now w/ 1 offical
terming FEA "the potential mechanism for integrating energy policy¹
at the highest level.
Love on Today said he left Admin because situation changed and
new agency, which he agrees w/, was formed under Simon's
basic responsibility. Tho asked to remain, Love said, he would ve
been in "vague" advisory position which wouldn't have been "impt"
and he didn't love DC enough to stay. Asked if he weren't "vague
adviser" all along, Love conceded "whole tag of 'energy czar¹¹ created
image that didn't exist. Stating it's "no surprise" that RN's be-
leaguered and involved w/other matters, Lov e added he felt RN didn't
see energy crisis as seriously as Love did, and in sentence he didn't
complete, Love noted RN's saying at 1 point Arabs couldn't so anything
else w/their oil. But, he added, he's beginning to think RN does see
crisis as serious. It's a "fine line to walk, 11 tho: people must under-
stand seriousness of shortage w/out pushing panic button, Love noted,
but added he thinks US needs to know seriousness, it can't be insulated
from bad effect it's going to have on economy. Admitting it was hard
to see RN, Love said he doesn't know if RN was unhappy w/him, but
"someone was. 11 He had no real reason to be in DC except to serve,
and he tried to make it clear if WH was unhappy, it should tell him.
In conclusion, Love said he was "probably not 'used, 111 but he's
concerned that his going was "clumsily" handled.
Star thinks there "probably" is "some truth" in varying accounts re:
Love's problems and he and DiBona "probably were right to resign when
it became clear they could remain only as window-dressing. " The
"energetic" Simon "has drive and intellectual capacity" to deal w/energy
crisis, and Star 's glad he "doesn't flatly rule out rationing." Allowing
prices to rise or imposing tax would limit consumption and involve
minimum of controls, "but it'd be clearly inequitable to low-incomes
and to those who must travel. 11 Yet,Star notes, "full-scale" rationing
would "involve creation of vast burocracy, invasion of privacy and
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