← 027-005027-007 →

Conversation 027-006

TapeTape 27StartWednesday, July 19, 1972 at 2:02 PMEndWednesday, July 19, 1972 at 2:09 PMParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President);  Rizzo, Frank L.Recording deviceWhite House Telephone
AudioNARA Description

On July 19, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Frank L. Rizzo talked on the telephone from 2:02 pm to 2:09 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 027-006 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 27-6

Date: July 19, 1972
Time: 2:02 pm - 2:09 pm
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Frank L. Rizzo.

[See Conversation No. 348-6A]

     Frank L. Rizzo's July 18, 1972 statement
          -The President's conversation with Charles W. Colson
          -Response
          -Governor Milton Shapp
          -The President's conversation with John D. Ehrlichman
          -Effect
                 -Italians

     Philadelphia operating engineers
          -Endorsement
          -Seabees
                 -The President's wartime experiences in the Solomon
                  Islands

     Rizzo's statement
          -American Broadcasting Corporation [ABC], National Broadcasting Corporation
                 [NBC], Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]

     The President's schedule
          -John Cardinal Krol
                 -Benediction at Republican Convention
          -Giulio Andreotti
                 -Possible visit to the US
                      -Dinner and entertainment
                          -John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
                          -Francis A. (“Frank”) Sinatra
                               -Friendship with Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
                               -Law enforcement people
                               -Allegations about connections

                                         (rev. Feb-02)

                                   -Mafia

     Federal aid
         -Ehrlichman
Transcript (AI-Generated)

This transcript was generated automatically by AI and has not been reviewed for accuracy. Do not cite this transcript as authoritative. Consult the Finding Aid above for verified information.

Hello?
Hello?
Hello?
Well, I just wanted to thank you for that really marvelous statement you made yesterday.
By golly, you really, really have messed with it.
Well, I'll tell you, that was really good.
I was so pleased to just talk to you this morning.
It's such a pleasure.
They were all excited.
Before they heard that, they got a fight.
Yeah.
Yeah, I was going to ask you.
I hope you're not going to give me the drip bag.
Yeah, yeah.
No, of course.
It's always good.
You're going to touch that staff, your friend's staff.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, I fell early.
I'm going to get after him.
He won't let him do that.
Thank you.
Well, I tell you, all we'd like to do is to cut our loss to one-fifth it.
Okay.
Yeah, a hundred-fifth it.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, well, I'll tell you, another thing that we would do is that we would, at that time, in fact, we were the mayor of a big, large city, and that's where it came out of, Boston, Missouri, and Florida.
And that really has an effect, also has a great effect on the value.
And we get very, very close.
I want you to know that.
And a very strong man.
Are they really?
In the Philadelphia area?
Terrific.
Terrific.
Well, they're a strong man.
I've seen them on those pictures.
A lot of them are TV's, remember?
I knew the TV's when a guy served in the Navy, you know, down in the Pacific, and he was following around.
I knew a lot of TV's, and a lot of them were operating in the Navy.
That's amazing.
Thank you.
That's enough.
That's right.
That's right.
That's right.
That's right.
That's right.
Let me tell you that you do know how to follow the TV days.
If you know, you are on all three networks now.
Can I ask you a question?
Yeah, can I ask you a question about something?
I'll tell you a few ones.
Carmen Cole said that you get the benefit of it.
I don't know if that's denied or not.
I don't know if that's a very important one.
I don't know if that's a very important one.
And we're trying to build them up, and we want them to be able to do it.
As a matter of fact, we decided to do it, and we're trying to do it.
So I'm going to do it.
We will be coming here either in August or September, in the middle of August, in the beginning of September, depending upon when I, when it comes, I'm going to have attendance.
And also, as trouble begins, as others get away, we're going to have to get there, and we're going to have to get across, and we're going to have to get there, and we're going to have to get there, and we're going to have to get there, and we're going to have to get there.
now here's the point I want to ask you about my answer to that is a long story Frank Sinatra has been a great friend of ours and he's also he's also a great friend of yours and he's a personal friend of yours you know
The question I ask is that, how would law enforcement people feel?
He was the best man, I think he was the best man, really, to do the program, because, you know, he's a big, he's a big man, he's a big man, he's a big man.
But law enforcement people, they would then do it, how did you not do it?
What did you do?
He took that.
But then as far as you're concerned, if I ask him and I'm going to talk to him, it's okay if he doesn't know.
You don't think that they... Don't most of them feel that this market is just one of those real-world things?
That's what I thought.
And he's very confident, too.
All right.
All right.
All right.
Well, it's good to talk to you.
And incidentally, now, on that money thing, every weekend I use it to pay for the bike.
Okay.
Thanks a lot.
← 027-005027-007 →