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the general city problems that are monetary and which need to be
cured by a distinct reversal in philosophy. I think the Republican
Party can win this year's campaign by forgetting about the Vietnam
issue, about which it has little or no information, and concentrating
on a complete turnabout of programming for the urban areas of this
country, programming that's dedicated and devoted to reversing the
trend of population from the rural areas into the cities and changing
it into moving the people out of the cities into the outlying areas
where the industry has gone, utilizing programs for satellite cities,
and generally attempting to clear the area, the slum areas, so that it
can properly be knocked down and condemned by execution of hous-
ing and health codes.

Q. Well, in his speech to the opening session to the Constitutional
Convention, Mr. Eney said that most states have gotten into the habit
of depending on the Federal government for a few crumbs, and he
said that he thought the states ought to start doing things on their
own. How do you feel about it?

A. This is one of the major reasons that I think Nelson Rockefeller
is the greatest candidate the Republican Party can produce this year.
The State of New York has done things on its own. It has resorted to
prefinancing in programs that the Federal government is just thinking
about and then taking advantage of Federal contributions at such time
as the law is passed to make them available. The State of New York
under Rockefeller's leadership has never waited for Federal assistance,
it's gone on its own with the hope that the Federal government would
catch up with the state later on.

Q. Governor, would you explain your remark about forgetting about
Vietnam?

A. Yes, if I were a presidential candidate today, one of the things
that I certainly wouldn't do would be to make judgments about Viet-
nam without having the benefit of information as detailed and ac-
curate as that which I assume the President has. In other words, I
wouldn't talk about Vietnam unless I had asked the President to pro-
vide me with a detailed and intensive briefing by the intelligence
people, by the military people, and by the diplomatic service. Once
in possession of that information, I may feel qualified to venture an
opinion on how the war should be fought. But it just makes me a little
bit ill to see candidates of both parties who have no information what-
soever, except what they're imagining and conjecturing and receiving
secondhand, taking positions on whether we should escalate or de-