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matter such as education, school construction or police salaries or
equipment, would you then be open for seeing that they had drawn
back and done as much as they could?

A. I may sound callous if I say I wouldn't; but I think when I con-
sider these things I have to be aware of the fact that the City is only
a part of the State and that I have a responsibility for the entire State.
I have to look at the problem in the way that: how does it affect the
Eastern Shore, and how does it affect Western Maryland, for they
have problems that they would like to have onetime grants for too.
The Hughes Tax Reform which was recently enacted certainly made
an effort to recognize the unique problems of the City — witness the
fact that out of about $100 million of total State aid the City received
somewhere around $48 million. I just can't — unless I find there is a
compulsion, not just an incentive, to treat the City to any special
grant this year — I can't say in advance that I would do so. It is doubt-
ful that I would.

Q. You don't see any problem right now that adds up to a com-
pulsion?

A. No. I think the City is going to have to get into its own problem
and effect the same kind of economy that we are trying to effect here
at the State level. There is a lot of spending we would like to do,
that we think is meritorious, that we can't do. We've just cut it out
and I think the City is going to have to do the same thing.

STATEMENT ON FORMATION OF CITIZEN
COMMITTEES FOR ROCKEFELLER

January 9, 1968

In response to the groundswell of public opinion that I have seen
developing — and it's very noticeable here in Maryland — I have
agreed to assist in the formation of a draft movement in this State
to urge Governor Nelson Rockefeller of New York to become a candi-
date for the Republican presidential nomination.

I have received a heavy volume of letters from all parts of the
country, and even from some Americans in foreign countries, urging
that some form of positive action be taken to persuade this man to
become a candidate. He has steadfastly refused to do this, and I
have steadfastly refused to participate in any organized efforts outside
of my own State.