In this week’s Green Felt Journal, I consider how strict regulation with room for discretion helped save Nevada gaming in the 1960s:
Sawyer’s “hang tough” policy emerged at a crucial time: Bobby Kennedy’s Justice Department would ratchet up pressure on Nevada casinos starting in 1961, and without the good-faith efforts of Sawyer’s appointees to clean house, more sweeping federal action seemed inevitable.
via How a Few Regulators Saved the Nevada Gaming Industry | Vegas Seven.
Olsen’s role is particularly important. If you ever at UNLV Special Collections, I strongly suggest reading his oral history.
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