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The original documents are located in Box D25, folder "American Association of Industrial
Management Breakfast, June 11, 1968" of the Ford Congressional Papers: Press Secretary
and Speech File at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.
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Digitized from Box D25 of The Ford Congressional Papers: Press Secretary and Speech File at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
NOTES FOR AM. ASS'N OF INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT BREAKESST, TUES. JUNE 11, 1968.
I. THERE WILL BE A CRACKDOWN ON CRIME IN AMERICA AND A DETERMINED DRIVE ON
THE PART OF BOTH THE AUTHORITIES AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE TO RESTORE LAW AND
ORDER IN THIS COUNTRY.
A. THE COUNTRY WASE MOVING IN THIS DIRECTION BEFORE THE ASSASSI ATION OF
SEN. ROBERT F. KENNEDY AND HIS DEATH GAVE THIS MOVEMENT A FORWARD THRUST.
B. THERE IS NOW APPARENT IN THE NATION A GENERAL REVULSION AGAINST VIOLENCE...
AND THIS WAS REFLECTED IN HOUSE PASSAGE OF THE TOUGH SENATE ANTI-ERIME BILL.
II. THE ANTI*CRIME BILL IS A TOUGH BILL, REGA DLE OF THE CRITICISM HAT
THE GUNI CONTROL PROVISION IS NOT STRONG ENOUGH AND THAT THE PROVISIONS
FORD
MODIFYING CERTAIN SUPREME COURT RULINGS WILL NOT HOLD UP UNDER COURT TEST.
A? HAD THE
SENATE BILL BEEN EJECTED BY
LIBRARY
26 AAIM NOTES
THE
HOUSE AND SENT TO A HOUSE*SENATE CONFERENCE, IT PROBABLY WOULD HAVE BEEN
STUCK THERE INDEFINITELY AND THE GUN CONTROL PROVIS ION MIGHT HAVE BEEN
FURTHER WATERED-DOWN IN EXCHANGE FOR E COMPROMISE ACTION ON
MODIFICIATION OF THE SUPREME COURT RULINGS ON HANDLING OF CRIMINAL CASES.
B. THE CONGRESS WAS REFLECTING THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE IN MODIFYING THE
SUPREME COURT RULINGS ON QUESTIONING OF SUSPECTS AND THE ADMISSABILITY OF
CONFESSIONS IN CRIMINAL CASES AND IT MAY TURN OUT THAT THIS MESSAGE WILL
GET THROUGH TO THE SUPREME COURT BEFORE THE PROVISIONS OF THE RECENTLY*PASSED
OMNIBUS ANTI*CRIME BILL ARE TESTED
BEFORE THE HIGHEST COURT.
THE BEFREE SUPREME COURT, IN EFFECT, CHANGED THE LAW IN ITS RULINGS ON
QUESTIONING AND CONFESSIONS. THERE IS NOI REASON WHY THE COURT CANNOT "6HANGS
IT BACK" IN LINE WITH THE DESIRES OF CONGRESS AND THE PEOPLE.
3/ AAIM NOTES
III. THE NEW OMNIBUS NTI*CRIME BILL SIGNALS THE MOBILIZATION OF THIS
COUNTRY'S RESOURCES IN A DRIVE TO REDUCE CRIME AND HALT THE SPREAD OF
VIOLENCE IN THIS COUNTRY. WHAT WILL IT DO?
A. IT AUTHORIZES HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS OF FEDERAL
AID
TO UPGRADE STATE ANDREX LOCAL LAW ENFOR CEMENT ON THE BASIS OF APPROVED
STATE ANTI*CRIME PLANS $100 MILLION THE FIRST YEAR AND $300 MILLION THE
NEXT
B. IT FORBIDS THE - MAIL*ORDER SALE OF HANDGUNS--PISTOLS AND
REVOLVERS. IT ALSO BARS OVER*THE*COUNTER SALES OF SUCH WEAPONS TO MINORS OR
TO PERSONS NOT RESIDENTS OF THE STATE. SALES OF RIFLES AND
SHOTGUNS THE WEAPONS USED BY GAME HUNTERS WOULD NOT BE AFFECTED.
4/ AAIM NOTES
C. IT OUTLAWS WIRETAPPING EXCEPT BY LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS DEALING
WITH ORGANIZED CRIME S OR NATIONAL SECURITY, AND PERMITS IT
THEN ONLY /HEN AUTHORIZED BY A COURT OF COMPETENT JURISDICTION FOR A SPECIFIC
PURPOSE.
D. IT LEAVES THE ADMISSEBILITY OF CONFESSIONS TO THE TRIAL JUDGE. THUS THE
CONGRESS IS LIMITING THE APPLICATION OF SOME OF THE MORE EXTREME SUPREME
COURT DECISIONS, SUCH AS IN THE MALLORY - AND MIRANDA CASES. (MALIORY'S
RAPE CONFESSION WAS THROWN OUT BY THE SUPREME COURT BECAUSE OF "UNNECESSARY
DELAY" IN BRINGING HIM INTO COURT. HE WAS FREED AND STAYED FREE FOR 33 MONTHS.
UNTIL HE COMMITTED RAPE AGAIN. MIRANDA'S CONFESSION WAS THROWN OUT BY A
5-4 SUPREME COURT DECISION ON THE GROUND HE HAD BEEN QUESTIONED VITHOUT COMPLETE
WARNING OF HIS RIGHTS.) THE SENATE BILL. WISELY DOES NOT PRECLUDE APPEALS.
5/ AAIM NOTES..
IV. THE CONGRESSI DELAYED FAR TOO LONG IN ENACTING AN OMNIBUS ANTI*CRIME
BILL. THE HOUSE PASSED ITS VERSION OF THE OMNIBUS ANTI*CRIME BILL LAST
AUGUST 8. WE HAVE WAITED FAR TOO LONG TO COMPLETE ACTION ON THIS VITAL
DEGISIATION, THIS LANDMARK BILL. I DON'T THINK THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WOULD
HAVE STOOD FOR FURTHER DELAY OF THE KIND THAT PROBABLY WOULD HAVE RESULTED
FROM THE MOVE BY JUDICIARY COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN EMANUEL CELLER TO REJECT THE
SENATE BILL AND SEND THE LEGISLATION TO CONFERENCE.
V. THIS LEGISLATION OF AND BY ITSELF ILL NOT HALT THE PLAGUE OF CRIME AND
LAWESSNE SS AFFLICTING THIS COUNTRY BUT I BEI IE VE IT
SIGNALS AND WILL
FIGURE IN AN ULTIMATE REVERSAL OF THE SHARP UPTURN IN CRIME
INFLICTED
UPON THE AMERICAN PEOPLE IN THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS.
6/ AAIM NOTES
VII THIS IS LANDMARK LEGISIATION BECAUSE IT WILL STRENGTHEN LOCAL POLICE
DEPARTMENTS AND STATE ANDI FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT.
PERHAPS MOST IMPORTANT, IT ILL HELP LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS GATHER
THE NECESSARY EVIDENCE TO BUILD A CASE FOR DETERMINING GUILT AND THEN
E
PROVING IT IN COURT.
VII. I THINK WE NOW WILL SEE, TOO, A STRONG REVULSION AMONG THE AMERICAN
PEO PLE TO VIOLENCE IN GENERAL.
IWIDESPREAD DISAPPROVAL
AND A DEMAND FOR COUNTER*ACTION AGAINST THOSE GROUPS WHO ARE SEEKING TO IMPOSE
THEIR WILL ON THE MAJORITY THROUGH COERCIVE METHODS. I THINK THE PEOPLE
WILL DEMAND THAT THE LAW BE ENFOR CED REGARDIESS OF THE MOTIVES OF THE
LAW-BREAKERS OR WHO THEY MAY BE. SOCIAL
K
ILLS
ANDI
POLITICAL
BELIEFS ARE NO EXCUSE FOR VIOLENCE, AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WILL NOT PUT UP WITH IT.
AAIM NOTES
NOW
No
VIII. CONGRESS/HAS DEALT WITH THE CHIEF CONCERN OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
AND SOON WILL ACT ON ANOTHER CRUCIAL PROBLEM, THE DETERIORATION OF THE DOLLAR.
A. THE
HOUSE DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP HAS SCHEDULED FORM JUNE 19
A VOTE ON THE COMBINATION SPENDING CUT-TAX INCREASE PACKAGE WHICH IS BITTER
ANTI*INFLATION MEDICINE BUT A POTION THAT THE COUNTRY WILL HAVE TO SWALLOW TO
SAVE THE DOLLAR.
B. THERE JUST HAVE TO BE EN UGH VOTES TO PUT THE SAVE THE +DOLLAR
PACKAGE
ACROSS BECAUSE THE INFLAT ON WE NOW ARE EXPERIENCING THRE TENS A RECESSION WHICH
ILI TAKE JOBS AND WAGES AWAY FROM AMERICANS MOST IN NEED OF THEM.
C.
WE
MUST
ACT TO FIGHT INFLATION BECAUSE ONLY WITH A SOUND
ECONOMY CAN WE ERASE POVERTY, REBUILD OUR CITIES AND HEAL THE SICKNESS IN UR
SOCIETY.
8/ AAIM NOTES
D. WE ARE IN SERIOUS TROU BLE BECAUSE OF INFLATION AND THE CHIEF CAUSE
OF THAT TROUBLE IS GOVERNMENT OVER*SPENDING. WE MUST, THEREFORE,
AT
LEAST SLOW DOWN THE UPWARD SPIRAL. CLAMP A LID ON THE SPENDING OF MONEY
WE DON'T HAVE.
IX. CONGRESS MUST MEET THE DOLLAR CRISIS AND THE CHALLENGE OF INFLAT ON
BECAUSE BOTH AMERICANS AND EUROPEANS ARE LOSING CONFI DENCE IN THE DOLLAR.
CRISIS OF CONFIDENCE
A. THIS TS THE INEVITABLE RESULT OF HUGE FEDERAL DEFICITS AND A CONSTANT
RISE IN THE COST OF LIVING.
B. ACTION IS IMPERATIVE BECAUSE PROGRESS IN AMERICA WILL BE IMPOSSIBLE
UNTIL RELATIVE PRICE STABILITY IS RESTORED AND THE ECONOMY MADE SOUND
AGAIN.
NOTES
JUNE 11, 1968
Congress of the United States
Herald R. 3nd
Office of the Minority Leader
M.C.
house of Representatives
OFFICIAL BUSINESS
TUESDAY
A.M.
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF
INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT
BREAKFAST
FORD