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that up. The Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Bill
of 1970 was signed at what was then the Bureau of Narcotics and
Dangerous Drugs [BNDD] headquarters. I set that up: ceremony,
what the President would say, the tone set. The Safe Streets Act
of 1970, and although it was, no, it became law later also, the
District of Columbia Court Reorganization and Criminal Justice Act
was also signed that year, involving DC crime. Reducing crime in
the District of Columbia was a prime project. I worked with
Police Chief Jerry Wilson closely on that, and Santarelli, finding
out what the Chief wanted to do, making sure it was properly
funded, making sure that we were giving him sufficient support in
any number of areas, street lighting or narcotics or getting more
police. Wilson was calling the shots, and they were Wilson's
ideas, but we were making sure the Federal Government was enabling
him to keep reducing crime here.
TG: In these activities were you dealing just with Bud Krogh within
the Domestic Council in the White House complex, or were you
involved with other people within the White House in a substantive
way?
GS: In the beginning, of course, I only dealt with Krogh. Eventually
I began to deal with some other people. There would be times when
our programs or policies were running parallel or needed to touch
base with the Counsel's office. In that regard I worked with Fred
Fielding, who was Deputy Counsel. I worked with people in the
Press Office, Neal Ball in particular, and I worked on a number of
programs with Bill [William F.] Rhatican, who was in the employ of
Chuck [Charles W.] Colson. We put on a Drug Abuse Conference and
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