GENERAL GOVERNMENT

Major questions of public policy, defying easy solution,
confronted Governor Tawes during his second term. To the
ever-present issues surrounding education, highways, health
and welfare, were added special problems relating to con-
stitutional revision, legislative reapportionment, judical re-
form, slot machines, and the regulation of savings and loan
associations. As the legislature failed to provide for a study
of the Maryland Constitution in its 1965 session, Governor
Tawes later exercised his executive authority and created a
Constitutional Convention Commission. Voters approved
holding a Constitutional Convention in the September, 1966,
Primary Election. Thus, the Governor was successful in
instituting the process which may lead to constitutional revi-
sion in 1967. In the following addresses, the Governor touches
on these matters and also notes the accomplishments of his
Administration. Included is a discussion of executive-legisla-
tive relations as seen from the Governor's office.

ADDRESS, LEGISLATIVE ORIENTATION CONFERENCE
TO 1963 MEMBERS

ANNAPOLIS

November 27, 1962

Let me begin by welcoming you to the city in which you will be
expected to spend most of your time during the coming winter season.
Then, let me offer my sincere congratulations to each of you upon
your election to the General Assembly of the State of Maryland.

Two weeks ago, a Baltimore newspaper printed an article, with
an accompanying cartoon, announcing this meeting and depicting me
as a professor, arrayed in academic cap and gown, lecturing "freshmen
legislators". This, I assure you, is not my concept of the role I am to
play here this morning.

The article went on to describe me, flatteringly enough I suppose,
as an honor graduate of the school of practical politics, and even went
so far as to predict that I would use in my remarks to you what it
called one of my favorite phrases, namely, that "politics is the art of
the possible. " I am, as I have suggested, pleased enough to be called
a graduate in practical politics. But let me add that, in view of your