722 ADDRESSES AND STATE PAPERS

viously I am not going to assume the obligation of directing the Com-
missioner in each facet of his everyday work as Commissioner of
Police of Baltimore City.

Q. Do you think that this would indicate then, Governor, that the
Mayor should have control over the Police Commissioner?

A. Oh, I've said that, and I've said I want to see that control trans-
ferred very shortly to the Mayor.

Q. Governor, the Commissioner said that he was occupied in An-
napolis yesterday.

A. Well he wasn't occupied with me. He may very well have been
occupied in Annapolis. I didn't see him.

Q. Governor, if you had been the Police Commissioner and knew
about the meeting, would you have attended it? (Laughter. )

A. I can't really answer that question. I am sure that any meeting
held by a group of elected officials is a meeting that an appointed
official should attend if he possibly can, but I don't know the cir-
cumstances of the Commissioner's failure to attend — whether some
emergency prevented it. I can't make a judgment or an analysis be-
cause I don't know all the facts surrounding his failure to attend.

Q. Do you know or have you asked whether the Commissioner met
with any people in the Legislature yesterday?

A. I don't know and I haven't asked. As a matter of fact, until you
mentioned it just now, I didn't even know he was in Annapolis or
had been asked to meet with anyone.

Q. That was the point, Governor, nobody knew he was here.

Q. Governor, if we could get away from Baltimore City for a mo-
ment, could you tell us whether the office that's just been opened
yesterday here in Annapolis — for the national campaign for Gov-
ernor Rockefeller for President — is to be a national operating office
or is this to be a sort of a "brainstrust" office with the operations run
from New York City or some larger center?

A. Well, if the Governor announces, and I understand that today —
at 2 o'clock — is the moment of decision, and that's less than a half an
hour away, this office will then take on strictly an ancillary or secon-
dary importance in his campaign effort. I am certain that we will want
to keep this office running — we'll want to keep the volunteer or-
ganizations interested and active but the primary impetus for the
campaign will be directed elsewhere.