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to improve our communication, but we are not naive enough to think
that we will not be able to communicate as frequently as we should
and as people would desire us to communicate with them.

QUESTION: Governor, in view of the success of this meeting, do you
expect to invite Mr. Young here also?

GOVERNOR:

I had no thought about inviting Mr. Young here, but I would
imagine Mr. Young would reflect the same basic philosophies that we
have discussed. I say this because of reading what he has had to say
in the past. If Mr. Young would like to talk with me, or any other
leader in the civil rights movement would like to talk to me, I am
available. I want to learn how to cope with this problem as best I
can, and communication won't hurt us.

QUESTION: Governor, is there any specific objective that will result
from this meeting?

GOVERNOR:

There is no specific objective that arises as a result of the meeting.
I think the overall target is so inclusive, and the removal of discrimi-
nation wherever it exists has got to be done. I will leave my admin-
istration completely flexible to move in every area. Naturally, we are
interested in the problems that Mr. Wilkins has specifically raised to
me by letter previously, such as the problems of the contractual rela-
tionships with the State and the problems of the draft board. We are
interested in the accusations of discrimination within State govern-
ment and the State employment itself, and we will move on specific
complaints as quickly as we can.

QUESTION: Mr. Wilkins, the Governor stated just a few minutes ago,
"We are moving as quickly as we can. " Is not part of the ferment in
the Negro communities the fact that the government may not be mov-
ing as swiftly as the people want it to?

MR. WILKINS:

I think the Governor also said that Mrs. Mitchell, who is head of
our State organization, generally approves of what has been done
and I think his words were that she is somewhat impatient. He might
have added, and he did inside, that it is a good thing in our type of
government for people to be impatient. When you say, however, too
impatient for the people — here too, the Governor pointed out that
he is the Governor of the whole State — of Maryland's Western Shores,
South Shores, Eastern Shores and all the other shores, and white and