Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 037-003
Date: Wednesday, February 28, 1973 at 8:42 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Usery, Willie J., Jr.
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/037-003
National Archives Catalog: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/417195153 (NAID 417195153)

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[0:00] Hello.
[0:01] Mr. President, I have Assistant Secretary Willie Osorino.
[0:06] Right.
[0:06] All right.
[0:07] Hello.
[0:08] Hello.
[0:08] Bill?
[0:08] Yes, sir.
[0:09] I just want to congratulate you on the Philadelphia strike.
[0:12] Well, thank you, Mr. President.
[0:13] That's very nice of you.
[0:14] That was a fine job, and I appreciate it.
[0:16] You tell Pete Brennan that I called, too, will you?
[0:18] I certainly will.
[0:18] Because I know he was interested in it very much.
[0:21] Sure, and...
[0:21] I was not only glad at the strike, but I think we made friends by ourselves with the mayor.
[0:26] Everyone was quite grateful.
[0:28] You kept in touch with my hard-hat mayor.
[0:31] Oh, yeah.
[0:32] We spent some time together.
[0:33] I enjoyed it very much, and I spent some time talking about you.
[0:36] Fine, fine.
[0:37] Thank you.
[0:38] Yeah, you can...
[0:39] It'd be a good thing.
[0:40] I don't want to give him a call because I don't want him...
[0:42] Brace me for some money, but when you're chatting with him, you can tell him I called and thought that he and you and everybody deserved congratulations for settling.
[0:49] I sure will.
[0:50] All right, Bill.
[0:50] Thank you very much, sir.