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proper psychiatric treatment — I plan to recommend a moderate
across-the-board increase in alcoholic beverage taxes. The exact de-
tails will be formulated after consultation with representatives of
the alcoholic beverages industry, but I would anticipate that the in-
creases would be minimal and still leave Maryland's alcohol tax
structure in a favorable position with other states. And I would
sincerely hope that the alcoholic beverage industry will cooperate
fully in order to show its recognition of the problem and its willing-
ness to help solve it.

REMARKS AT ANNUAL CONFERENCE, MID-ATLANTIC
ASSOCIATION OF GOLF COURSE SUPERINTENDENTS,

BALTIMORE

January 8, 1968
Gentlemen:

I thank you for having me as your guest today. I have long admired
the work you do and want you to know that you have destroyed my
confidence ever to break a hundred.

Six years ago, before I started to play golf, before I even knew I
owned a natural slice, I was a peaceable man of reasonably sound
mind and equilibrium, not subject to thoughts of self destruction,
enjoying things much less complex than trying to plink a little white
ball into a little green cup. There was a time when I thought relaxing
was reading a book not written by Palmer or Nicklaus. There was
even a time, and I can still remember it, when I would spend all of
every Sunday with my wife and family.

I didn't think about golf. I figured it was something people did
when they didn't have anything better to do. Besides, I was just be-
coming active in politics. And golf, my political instincts warned me,
went out in 1960 at the end of its second term.

I think about my pre-golf days many times. I think about them
when I am with people. I think about them when I am all alone —
in the rough. I have walked parts of some courses their superinten-
dents haven't even motored through. I even think about my pre-
golf days on the few occasions my ball discovers a fairway. They were
sane days. They were good days.