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East-West system, and he indicated that the design concept team had
been approved and that Maryland had shown great leadership in
this regard.

Q. Governor, there is increasing concern for the Republican nominee
for President next year. Have you changed your mind about perhaps
being a favorite son candidate at the next convention?

A. J haven't at this stage changed my mind. I feel that if my opinions
are going to have an effect on the delegates to the national convention
from the State of Maryland, they are going to have an effect because
they have respect for them. I do feel that the favorite son device is
absolutely not needed anywhere at any time. If a person is going to
lead the delegation he should be able to control the delegation, per-
suade the delegation, without resorting to a favorite son candidacy.
And I think it's just a little bit misleading, because what a favorite
son candidacy would attempt to say in the first instance is that, yes,
I am considering being a candidate. But we all know that it doesn't
say this. What it really says is that I don't want anybody in my dele-
gation to get out of line, and I'm going to hold them to this device
until the very last minute.

Q. Speaking of anti-federalism as we were a moment ago, the head
of the Maryland NAACP yesterday condemned Mr. Eney, whom she
took to be a strong anti-federalist. She said there should be more co-
operation between the state and Federal governments.

A. I did see something about that, and I certainly don't think that
Mr. Eney meant to convey an anti-federalist sentiment. I think what
Mr. Eney was trying to do was to point out that the states had to take
their rightful place in the overall governmental establishment of this
nation. And at the Southern Governors' Conference, I might point
out, when we were talking about law enforcement and criminal justice,
one of the Federal gentlemen from the Department of Justice who was
speaking advocated a direct flow of Federal monies to the cities for
police use. And every governor at that conference rose up and fought
that. And I pointed out that under our tax program we had sent $16
million to the subdivisions for police protection, whereas under the
Safe Streets Act the Federal government had provided only $50 million
on a nationwide basis, thus far. And it wasn't logical for us to expect
that the Federal government was going to channel its money directly
to the cities when we were making a 16 to 1 effort over them to im-
prove that situation, and the other governors feel that way too. Now,
Mr. Eney apparently is worried about a drift toward the consideration