 Good morning, Mr. President, and I'm the Secretary of the Air Force here, Professor Arthur. Good morning, Mr. President. Nice to see you, sir. Just great. Nice to see you. I'm honored to be here, sir. We're honored to have you. It's nice to be aboard. The last time I was here, you presented and had presented to you your jacket from the Air Force Academy when that tough team came in. Were you a little bit surprised at their height? I thought when they came in, I, morning, John, I played freshman football at Maryland and when I was there in 1951, you know, they were just great big tanks, all from West Neutrona, Pennsylvania, and the Pittsburgh Iron Mills and so on, and I thought we were going to see this gang of tigers come in and for them to have gotten as far as they've gotten when they're no bigger than you or me, and some of you are smaller. It's a great credit to them. Well, aren't there some physical limitations? There are. Oh, yes, sir. I wondered about that with football. Oh, sure. End of basketball. I want to see Navy do as well as they've done at being ranked 15th and 17th in some polls where they can't have, you know, the seven-footers and they get boxed out in the middle. So these chaps are great. Come on, Matt, please. You've got to be able to grab a little pocket. Come on, John. I know. Come on. You've got to be fit to see them. You've got to be fit to see them. Of course, you see, I'm very pleased to see that happen because having 75 pounds in a large college, I always had a feeling that some of that poke resulted in a little slowing and particularly in defense when you could use your hands and you could handle the big fellows very well. Well, I got knocked out, Mr. President, seven times in our freshman year, and a big gym tatum was our coach at the time, and he advised me that for the insurance policies of the school and for the future, I might want to take up something else that was that. We had nine of the starting eleven, the Mojolesky brothers and Bernie Filoni, but nine of the starting eleven wound up playing pro ball on our offensive team for at least nine years, which was a great record. So I wound up being a hell of a porter back on our signify fraternity football team that stayed alive. Well, of course, you know, in all of the guys who are trying to make the game somehow fairer and safer, you played under the new rules. I was in about the last of the era in which on defense, you could use your hands and you could hit with your open hand as long as you did not hit the face. And this made all the difference in the world, because I played opposite two men who later went to pro ball. New Soul, who with the bears eight years old, our attack of the L-800 guns, and Tony Blazing and Nagursky called him the specialist man in football. He weighed 245. Oh, what? I'd get as low as possible in the line on defense. And when the ball was snapped, that's harder than the fist. My first blow was aimed for the headgear, right over the ear. And when you get that out here, how big he was, you could get a knee through there. The offense was a little different, then. We just had to charge with a shoulder. Now, please, please. Thank you very much, Ed. I want to touch Kaufman and Senator Thurman. This is Stuart, the other distinguished members of the commission. And thank you for coming to the White House today. And since the commission expires on April 1st, and nobody will say April Fools' Day, I'm very pleased to have this opportunity to thank all of you for your work over the past two and a half years. I know that you're aware of the high priority that the Attorney General and I place on fighting in one day eradicating organized crime. And I'm sure the Attorney General will agree with me when I say that your work is bound to be a crucial factor in our efforts. I guess so again, thank you very much for all that you've done. Now, Judge Kaufman, I would be pleased to receive the final report that I understand is ready today. Thank you, sir. I hope I can keep the President waiting for a moment until I get through with my remarks. All right. The podium is yours. President, I give you a seat. I don't know what to do. Stand here, please. I'm sure this is going to show off. You haven't just become chairman of this. I want to begin by thanking you, Mr. President, and the Attorney General for his gracious remarks before you came into the room. And certainly, and he's doing it for greasing us with her presence here today. I want you to know that I think the most sterling achievement of the commission is that we are probably the only body of government that is really going out of business about March 1st and certainly before April 1st in accordance with Graham Rudman. So we have that distinction. It has been 32 months since you appointed this commission and you designated me as chairman. In that time, we've tried to carry out the ambitious mandate you gave us to explore the nature, scope, and extent of organized crime in the United States. By appointing an independent commission, you recognize that the changing nature of organized crime required a comprehensive new inquiry, the first of its kind, over 30 years. Organized crime remains a potent parasite feeding off the people and has continued to grow and occasionally to thrive despite periodic attempts to eradicate it. Organized criminal groups form a head-to-head monster, maintaining institutional survival even as individual members or leaders are apprehended and incarcerated. Moreover, new organized crime groups are emerging to follow in the footsteps of their more widely publicized predecessor. Throughout the month of March, we will be releasing portions of our final report. We hope to have more before you by April 1st. The section we are issuing today on the subject of drug trafficking calls for a nationwide campaign to reduce the demand for narcotics and you turn the channel and spoke about that before you came into the room thereby depriving organized crime of its largest source of income. There has to be a change in attitude, I believe, on the part of the American people. They have to consider it. They have to begin to think of it as quite anti-social to accept the use of drugs. Your wife really has been in the forefront in the fight to combat drugs and we commend her for that. But unfortunately, not too many citizens adopt that attitude. Law enforcement alone cannot achieve this result. You can pour millions of dollars into this effort to stamp it out either to interdict drugs or to go to the source countries. You make some impact, but the impact won't be the sort that you will be satisfied with, Mr. President. Let me just throw some statistics at this group. There are approximately 500,000 heroin addicts in the United States. There are 25 million people who have tried cocaine at least once and 6 million people are actually hooked on it. There are 20 million regular marijuana users. And we frequently hear the cry of, why don't you legalize marijuana because you can't enforce it? As a judge, you can understand, a judge of almost 37 years on the federal court, it's a very hard argument for me to accept. Now, we recommend vigorous governmental efforts against organized crime, but we believe that all the citizens of this country have a role to play in destroying the power of criminal organizations. And, Mr. President, a statistic given to us recently indicated that almost half of the income of organized crime comes from drugs. Quite an impact on our economy, I think that. I cannot let this occasion pass without noting what I did before you came into the room, Mr. President. And that is that I know of no administration, and I've been around for a while. That has made the concerted effort to combat organized crime that you and your associates have. Other administrations have tried, but they give up, they abandon. And not so with you, or in these, or Bill Smith. They continue on, and this constant cry that you hear, oh, you will never stamp it out. Why are you wasting your time is just such a nonsense. What do we do? Cutting under to these gangsters? We just can't do that. So, as chairman, I can say that the commitment to common goals displayed by members of this commission was heartening to observe. And I want to commend each and every member of this commission. I've worked with groups over the years. For ten years I was involved in the Juvenile Justice Project for the American Bar Association. All of their very spirited people, every one of them. And they all have a view, and they all disagree. And many a time I said, what did I ever get into here? But I wouldn't want it any other way. They were all individual thinkers, and they all contribute to the final consensus that we have. Hard, working, and dedicated men and women, and I do want to say to you, Mr. President, we owe them a deep debt of gratitude. I can pick out a lot of individuals like Judy Hope and Barbara Rowan and the others here, but I'd better stop here before I go through the entire room. 32 months ago, we stood in the Rose Garden and accepted your assignment to help devise ways to remove this malignant cancer from our society. The commission, with the help of Jim Harmon and Rodney Smith, appointed a very, very able staff. Our investigators, most of them are FBI people, are known to us. I don't think the public realizes how effective we were and the kind of investigations that were going on quietly behind the scenes. You have taken a personal interest. I know of your background. I know of the work you did when you were head of the screen, I was Gil, and I remember those two characters, Brown and Beoff, in Hollywood. You were, in this thing, way back before many of these people ever heard of it. And so therefore, you've had a great interest and therefore you're a strong backing, Mr. President. So, I conclude by saying no administration has made a greater effort to combat organized crime. The challenge is a great one, but it's important that our society is greater, and as we conclude our work, it is my hope that we have made a contribution to meeting the challenge. So, if you'll come forward with the report at this point. Is that one? Mr. President. If I had been used to carrying a budget around for this, I would have been an animal. Well, is that for the change? But again, I think you're worrying for this. And in case you don't lose your interest and continue along the line contributing where you can to the health of the fight, I have to agree also that much as we must have the interdiction efforts, and we won't let up on that, but the only real way that it's got to be stopped is that we take the customers away from the drugs instead of the other way around. We have a little experience with that in California, and we learned something. I'll just give you as a tip if you remain active in anything of this kind. We found that all us good citizens could stand in front of, say, those kids in school, in a high school and talk to them about drugs, and they weren't listening to us any more than they did to the teachers. But you put somebody up in front of them that says, I was there. I was one. I know what it's like. I did this and I did that. Those kids come forward like this and listen, and the most effective missionaries we can find are to find those that have been turned off and are willing to stand up in front and admit to it. So we won't overlook anything and try to make this work and come true. I must say it's just the forearm that you gave me when I got to the part of an organized labor. I began to think that maybe the Screen Act is good. It's the only clean union in the universe. Mr. President, we can impose on your schedule for one more minute. We promised the members of the commission a group photo. I was still going to ask them to come up here. And the UN will be pretending to block you, and I said, what do you mean pretend? You could take these chairs out from here. Mr. President, do you have that? Thank you very much.