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C HW THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON September 19, 1972 THE PRESIDENT HAS SEEN MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT FROM: KEN COLE SUBJECT: Telephone Conversation with Mayor Rizzo Mayor Frank Rizzo called me early this past Friday morning to report on a conversation with Mayor Alioto the previous day. Rizzo reports, as he mentioned in your office, that Alioto said that unfortunately he could not endorse you publicly as Rizzo had done. He then went on to say that with the passage of revenue sharing and your introduction and support of it, you had done more for the cities than anyone he could think of. If he (Alioto) is included in the signing ceremony for revenue sharing, he can be counted on to say some good things about you which he feels may be helpful. (He is currently on the list of invitees.) Alioto went on to tell Rizzo that he, Mayor Maier of Milwaukee and Mayor Daley of Chicago are only going through the motions as far as McGovern is concerned. Publicly there are things they must do, but their support of McGovern is only "skin deep". & pan go