I had occasion after a brief stint, four years as Speaker of the House in New Jersey, to come up here to Boston, the Boston area and be at Harvard as a Fellow at the Kennedy School, and it was during that time that I started to put a pen to paper on what I thought was going to be a magazine article and grew into a 120 page book. The written statement that I have submitted to the Commission is constituted by the conclusions of that book. Let me make some observations. Number one, lotteries are here to stay. It is part of human nature, it is ingrained in human nature.
People like to gamble, they like to gamble in all forms.
We, in New Jersey, have realized one thing, I think, after a very long and extensive period of trying to suppress gambling. What we did in 1897 was ban all forms of gambling constitutionally. What we found the result to be was counterproductive to the efforts to suppress gambling. Rather, illegal gambling became the major source of funding organized crime. Let me make these other observations about the lottery in particular and my area of interest in it.