I think I've made my opinion well known on this issue. From the very beginning to today, the Genovese family has always been the top family in the U.S. I think the Gambinos rivaled them in many ways from the late 1950's to the early 1990's, but never surpassed them, especially on a national level. I also think much of the thinking about the Gambinos surpassing the Genovese during Carlo's reign stems from the inaccurate nation that the Genovese suffered from weak leadership during some of those years, when that really wasn't the case.