a button that made a section of his big office wall slide back to reveal
to a reporter a rendering of the vast system of dams, man-made rivers,
tunnels and pipelines being built to bring water of the northern
mountains for the burgeoning coastal areas. He spoke proudly of the
great strides that have been made in education during his two terms.
He talked of the highway network that makes it easier for California's
car-happy residents to get around; of the improvements his administra-
tion has made in welfare programs; of his attempts to make life fuller
for minorities. "

The article goes on to quote Governor Brown as stating that he had
"given the State good government, " adding that his one big regret
was the "I haven't been able to package it... to make the people
really understand what we have accomplished. "

I stand before you tonight as another Governor who has his "pack-
aging" problems. No one who has not experienced the difficulty can
fully understand and appreciate the feeling of frustration and hope-
lessness expressed by the California Governor. "What have I done
wrong? Just tell me, " he says. Quite frankly, I don't have to ask that
question. I know I have made mistakes, and I don't need any help
in uncovering them. But there remains the problem of "packaging",
as Governor Brown defines it—of making the people really understand
what we have accomplished.

I, too, can point with pride to the great strides that have been made
during the past seven and a half years—in education, in highway con-
struction, in mental hygiene, in conservation, in the development of
our economy, in many other achievements to broaden and enrich the
lives of Marylanders. But the "package" the good government we have
had, as Governor Brown puts it—to present it in a favorable light so
that people will understand the accomplishments—is another matter.

The General Assembly at its recent session failed to enact the
Cooper-Hughes program, adjourned before passing a Congressional
redistricting bill, let the Niles court reform measure perish, killed an
anti-miscegenation measure. And therefore, with a single-minded,
opinionated press on the one hand and a "what-have-you-done-for-me-
lately" public attitude on the other, all, all is lost. No matter that
the Legislature, in creating a new intermediate appellate court, made
the most drastic judicial reform in the history of our State. No matter
if it established for the first time in the State a program of educational
television to enhance the cultural and spiritual life of our people.
No matter that the State, through legislation adopted at the session,
embarked upon the most ambitious and far-reaching highway building

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