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Date: January 24, 1972
Time: 11:59 am - 12:32 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Frank L. Rizzo and John D. Ehrlichman; the White House photographer
was present at the beginning of the meeting.

Greetings

Seating arrangements

[Photograph session]

Press

Philadelphia politics
-Rizzo’s support of the President
-Rizzo’s election
-James H.J. Tate
-Previous meeting with Philadelphia Republicans
-Rizzo’s party affiliation
-Previous position as police chief
-Rizzo’s support of the President
-Rizzo’s view of Edmund S. Muskie and Hubert H. Humphrey
-The President’s relation with Rizzo
-Rizzo’s and the President’s stand on issues
-Rizzo’s party affiliation
-Compared to political opponents
-Law and order, justice, progress
-Allegations of racism
-Extreme left


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Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 11:59 am.
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-Blacks
-View of Rizzo
-Law and order
-Support of the President
-Rizzo’s campaigning


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Philadelphia police chief
-Rizzo’s appointment
-Condition of Rizzo’s resignation
-Tate
-Joseph L. O’Neill


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Milton J. Shapp
-Appointment of federal judges
-Lois G. Forer
-Community of Legal Services
-Philadelphia police force
-Riot
-Julian F. King
-Brothers-in-law
-Walter H. Annenberg’s view
-Treatment of Rizzo
-Brutality case
-Demonstrators at State Building
-Raymond P. Shafer
-Activities
-Throwing things, use of obscenities
-Philadelphia police’s response
-Injuries
-Shapp’s statement on television
-Comparison between Rizzo and George C. Wallace


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Rizzo
-Governing Philadelphia
-Hugh Scott’s influence
-Administration’s work with mayor’s staff
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-Relations with Ehrlichman
-Bureaucracy
-Statement’s on television
-Taxes
-Rizzo’s relation with the President
-Revenue sharing
-Wilbur D. Mills
-Hearings
-Passage
-Prospects
-Law Enforcement Assistance Administration Act [LEAA]
-Meetings with transportation and other officials, January 24, 1972
-James M. Beggs
-Report to Ehrlichman
-Federal funds
-Contracts
-Rizzo’s staff

Present meeting
-Photographs
-Philadelphia press accompanying Rizzo

Ehrlichman left at an unknown time before 12:32 pm.

-Agenda
-Urban problems
-LEAA
-Revenue sharing
-Philadelphia


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John V. Lindsay
-Statement regarding Wallace
-Stormtroopers
-Wallace’s answer
-New York City police
-Birmingham
-New York City
-Association with liberals
-Strategy
-Image
-John F. Kennedy
-Morale of New York City police force
-Patrick V. Murphy
-Hearing
-J. Edgar Hoover’s view
-Conversation with Ehrlichman


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Leon H. Sullivan
-Contacts with past Presidents
-Relations with Rizzo
-Contact with Ehrlichman

Rizzo
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-Contact with administration
-Instructions to Ehrlichman
-Meeting with Philadelphia leaders

All or some of the following entered at an unknown time after 11:59 am: Jacqui Muller, John
Caracciolo, Tom Moloney, Henry Schoenfeld, Gene Harris, John Katz, Lou Zacuarias, Andrea
Mitchell, and Dan Lynch and Stephen B. Bull.

Refreshment

State gifts

[Photograph session]

Press
-Introductions
-Katz of Philadelphia Daily News
-Harris of Philadelphia Bulletin
-Mitchell of WKYW
-Muller of WTUI

[Forename unknown] Cummings [sp?] of the Philadelphia Enquirer

Presidential gifts
-Pens
-Signing of budget

1973 budget
-Size

Introductions

The President’s previous meeting with Rizzo
-Fiscal matters
-Revenue-sharing
-Congressional hearings
-Impact on Philadelphia
-Mills
-Name
-Transportation
-LEAA
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-Federal programs
-Ehrlichman
-Domestic Council
-Cooperation with Philadelphia
-Meeting with Rizzo’s staff
-Administration’s relations with cities
-Federal funds
-Ehrlichman’s responsibilities
-Politics
-Administration’s relations with cities
-The President’s experience in California politics
-Non-partisanship
-Politics
-Nonpartisanship
-Importance

[General conversation]
-Airplane

Rizzo, et al. left at 12:32 pm.