Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 33 › Conversation 033-028

Nixon phone call with Mills on 1972 Election and Los Angeles

Saturday, November 4, 1972 · 10:45 AM–10:47 AM ET · White House Telephone · 3 min

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President); Mills, WilliamConversation033-028 on Tape 33StartSaturday, November 4, 1972 at 10:45 AMEndSaturday, November 4, 1972 at 10:47 AMRecording deviceWhite House TelephoneSourceNixon Library record for 033-028 ↗ · National Archives Catalog, NAID 417194277 ↗

AI Summary

President Nixon and Los Angeles Councilman William Mills spoke to exchange mutual expressions of support ahead of the 1972 election. Mills thanked the President for past assistance provided to his community by the White House, while Nixon reaffirmed his commitment to keeping the administration accessible to the Black community. The President directed Mills to coordinate with John Ehrlichman in the coming weeks to serve as an advisor on urban policy for the upcoming second term.

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NARA Description

On November 4, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and William Mills talked on the telephone from 10:45 am to 10:47 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 033-028 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 33-28

Date: November 4, 1972
Time: 10:45 am - 10:47 am
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with William Mills.

[See Conversation No. 389-12B]

       Greetings

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[Previous PRMPA Personal Returnable (G) withdrawal reviewed under deed of gift during
chronological review 2007-2013]

       1972 election
            -Mills's expression of support
                   -Howard Allen’s letter to the President
                   -Support from the President and White House staff
            -Mills
                   -Work with White House

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       Black community
            -White House access
                 -Urban problems
                       -Los Angeles
                 -Contacts with John D. Ehrlichman
                       -Advice on city affairs
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                            NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY

                                                             Conversation No. 33-114 (cont’d)

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Hello.
Mr. President, Mr. Billy Mills for you.
Good morning, Mr. President.
Good morning, Mr. Councilman.
I just wanted to call you to thank you for the expression of support that you gave.
I had a letter from our mutual friend Howard Allen.
Yes, sir.
And he told me about it.
And let me say that I want you to know that
The next four years, I look forward to working with you for the causes that you're deeply interested in.
I know that you take a lot of heat sometimes from some of your colleagues when you move in this direction, but I greatly appreciate it, and I will not forget it.
Well, Mr. President, I'm very grateful for some very good years that you've given us, and I have received an awful lot of assistance and help
from your White House staff and from the various departments and the programs that we've tried to put together here.
And I thought that the very least that I could do at a time when you were trying very hard to get support from all elements in our community, that I should come and express that gratitude and that help and that support.
I do look forward to working with you in the next four years, and I hope that
If you see the need, that you can call me anytime.
I'd love to be of service.
I appreciate that.
Let me say that we have welcomed the opportunity to work with you.
And this door of this Oval Office will be open to you for not only the needs of the community at large, but particularly of those in the black community, because we want everybody in this
agree to have a chance, and that's the way to do it, to be sure that the White House is the place where everybody can come.
Yes, sir.
I appreciate this.
And as I said, I do look forward to working with you.
We do have some thoughts.
considered here in Los Angeles something of an expert on the problems that bother our cities.
Right.
And I do look forward to working with you.
On that score, if you would do this, if you would be in touch with John Ehrlichman, whom I think you know.
Yes, I do.
He's getting together some of our thoughts looking forward to the next term.
Yes, sir.
And he will consider you to be one of our top advisors on city affairs.
Yes, sir.
uh if you will be in touch with him give him a couple weeks off first at the election though will you yes okay i'll do that all right good luck to you and get my best everybody there thank you

Also recorded on November 4, 1972

  • 033-024 10:30 AM · 4 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Margaret Chase Smith talked on the telephone from 10:30 am to 10:33 am.
  • 033-025 10:34 AM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Howard H. Baker, Jr. talked on the telephone from 10:34 am to 10:36 am.
  • 033-026 10:36 AM · 13 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 10:36 am and 10:41 am.
  • 389-012 10:36 AM · 14 min — President Richard M. Nixon, John D. Ehrlichman, Robert J. Dole, William Mills, Gordon L. Allott, and James D. ("Mike") McKevitt met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 10:36 am and 11:00 am.
  • 033-027 10:41 AM · 3 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Robert J. Dole talked on the telephone from 10:41 am to 10:44 am.
  • 033-029 10:49 AM · 5 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Gordon L. Allott talked on the telephone from 10:49 am to 10:54 am.
  • 033-030 11:00 AM · 7 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at 11:00 am.
  • 033-031 11:00 AM · 6 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 11:00 am and 11:01 am.

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Cite this conversation

Conversation 033-028, November 4, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives (NAID 417194277). Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/033-028 (accessed October 30, 2026).