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BAC, BE As you can presume, this involved quite elaborate arrangements. There was a great deal of enthusiasm on the part of those present in anticipation of his appearance. However, approximately 3:00 PM on 7/28/81, BRENNAN received a call from JACK RILEY saying that the Attorney General - would not be able to appear and offered in his place, Mr. ORRICK, the head of the Civil Division of the Department. BRENNAN at the time the call was received advised he would take this under advisement, but as an aside told me that he, together witb a large percentage of his directors present, were considerably disturbed over this offer, saying “This is a criminal organization principally” and "We aren't interested in a ‘nobody who is a civil attorney’", BRENNAN advised me that he had talked this matter over with his directors present and plans were made to contact Senator KEFAUVER of Tennessee and Senator MOSS from Utah, who was formerly President of the National District Attorneys Association, and other influential senators, to see if the bill scheduled to come on the floor of the Senate on Saturday, 7/29/61 in which the Attorney General was interested, could not be set over until the following week so he could make the appearance as scheduled. BRENNAN told me that he thought this was a very “shabby way" of being treated particularly since the District Attorneys were in favor of the crime fight the Attorney General is waging. I contacted Mr. EVANS in San Francisco and advised him of this attitude and pointed out that they were still interested, 4f possible, in getting the Attorney General to speak. On 7/29/61, I was in touch with Mr. EVANS and learned that the Attorney General had offered to read his speech via the long distance telephone. I talked to BRENNAN about this but after consulting with seven of his state directors who were immediately available they declined to accept this invitation, saying that they had endeavored to have such a speech by Senator KEATING before their last meeting in Boston but the technical facilities were such that it was most unsatisfactory; therefore, they declined to accept that invitation. Fee She A