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General's office. He had an organization, which was then run by
Don [Donald E.] Santarelli, called the Office of Criminal Justice.
The other area was justice legislation. At that time Wally
[Wallace H.] Johnson was the legislative man in the Department and
I worked very close with Wally. Now this, of course, evolved over
the two and a half years that I worked for Krogh, and I got into
other areas, but my first work was all justice related.
TG: Is there any way you might just give me some feel for the type of
work you were doing with, let's say, LEAA? Was it just a liaison
operation on a basis of whenever it was necessary, or whether
continuing programs that you were overseeing, or
?
GS: LEAA had a leadership vacuum of fifteen months with no one in
charge, and they needed policy guidance on what areas the
President was most interested in developing. They could direct
research in the criminal justice area into any direction that was
important, but no one was actually pulling them in one direction
or another. We would talk over what areas we thought ought to be
explored. It was a result of external stimuli, either articles or
books or talks with law professors or things that appeared in the
President's News Summary that he'd indicate he wanted followed
through on, that sort of thing. The same types of programs were
run, although not through grant money, by the Office of Criminal
Justice. It was, "How do we keep the federal government out front
in the war against crime?" At that point none of the big criminal
justice bills had passed, but, shortly after I got here, the
Organized Crime Control Act of 1970 was signed into law in a
ceremony at the Great Hall of the Department of Justice. I set
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