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As part of the Governor's announced overall economy moves, he
has also imposed a 21-day hospital-in-patient limitation per illness on
the persons in the Medicaid program who are classed as medically
indigent.

At the same time the Governor announced that in order to meet a
deficit of some $2 million in the program in the current fiscal year
which ends June 30, he has authorized the diversion of Federal funds
for the program which were in excess of the estimates by approximately
the deficit amount.

"MEET THE PRESS, " NBC-TV, TULSA, OKLAHOMA
June 16, 1968

Mr. Lawrence E. Spivak, Moderator: Our guests today on this
special one-hour edition of MEET THE PRESS are four Governors
expected to play important roles as favorite sons in the Republican
Presidential contest. They are Governors George Romney of Michigan,
Raymond P. Shafer of Pennsylvania, Spiro T. Agnew of Maryland
and Dewey Bartlett of Oklahoma.

The reporters on our panel today are John Dancy of NEC News,
David S. Broder of the Washington Post, Ernest B. Furgurson of the
Baltimore Sun, and Robert J. Donovan of the Los Angeles Times.

Questions to, and Answers by, Governor Agnew

Mr. Spivak: Governor Agnew, you were Governor Rockefeller's
first and staunchest supporter when he wasn't a candidate. Why won't
you come out in support of him now that he is a candidate?

Governor Agnew: Politics is quite a bit connected and concerned
with timing, and I feel that Governor Rockefeller waited too long.
I think certainly that, even more than that, Mr. Nixon's campaign
has run very well, and I think that since the Dr. King assassination
and since the riots that followed that, the country has made a very
definite change in philosophy, so that I would now place Mr. Nixon
in the category of being a very likely winner in November, rather
than someone whom I thought earlier might not have a chance.

Mr. Spivak: Are you seeking simply to be with the winner, Gov-
ernor?