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Law Offices of
HERBERT A. LEVY
SUITE 1250, FEDERAL BAR BUILDING
1815 H STREET, N. W.
WASHINGTON D. C. 20006
737-6919
AREA CODE 202
August 2, 1968

Captain M.A. Gitt
94 Kings Point Road
Great Neck, New York 11024

Dear Mike:

Following our telephone conversation Friday concerning the pace of current progress toward the Committee's ultimate objectives, I decided to take the time to reevaluate the present program, and to explore the feasibility of other possible alternatives to our current approach.

As you know, it has been my view that, side by side with concurrent efforts to obtain remedial legislation from Congress, we should move toward a public evidentiary hearing concerning the age 60 rule. Toward that end, I have, among other pursuits, been collecting evidence for ultimate use in such a hearing; there is no doubt in my mind that we could construct a respectable presentation on behalf of the Association in such a hearing, and that we could as well cast doubt upon the basis advanced by FAA in support of the rule.

I am not wholly free of concern for the psychological wisdom of that course, however. A public hearing will likely produce an eyeball to eyeball confrontation between the Association and FAA, which the likely prospect that less attention will be focused on the evidence than on FAA's determination to safeguard its prestige and authority in matters of air safety. Notwithstanding the foregoing problems, however, I am confident that we could approach such a hearing with the full