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enough and healthy enough to live in those conditions of squalor,
they could be finding themselves a job somewhere. Also they can't be
in Resurrection City and also be taking care of dependent children.
So I don't think these people fit into the category. I don't think they
are genuinely poor people. I think they are lobbyists. I think they
are lobbyists for opportunism — for attempts to seize the spotlight for
certain aspects of the civil rights movement — which, incidentally,
I think do the movement a great deal of violence.

(Changes in Philosophy?)

And while I am on this subject, if I may I would like to talk a
little bit about the speculations and oversimplifications that I read
about my apparent shift in opinion from a liberal to a conservative.
I have never felt more liberal than now. I am still for the things that
I advocated. I am still for, for example, the open housing law that
was passed. I am still for an equal taverns law and all types of equal
opportunity. I am still for doing something in the head-start area.
I am doing everything that I can to stimulate job opportunities and
educational opportunities for those less fortunate than we are. But
I am not for simply doling increasing amounts of money into the
hands of militants who are using this for the purposes of self-aggran-
dizement. I am not for some of the fancy City programs that are
more related to salaries than results.

Q. Does that refer to Baltimore City?

A. Yes it does. It certainly does refer to Baltimore City specifically.

Q. Do you feel that Baltimore City has gotten out of line in its
salaries?

A. I don't think there's any question about it and I don't think that
it's just a matter that it's gotten recently out of hand. I think that
this trend is developing in all cities. I note that the mayor of New
York has a $6 billion budget that he is proposing this year. The
entire State of California doesn't have that kind of budget.

There's no doubt that cities have to have money put into them to
perform the services they are asked to. Rut where is the innovative
thinking to do something about the problem of the city with regard
to the constant funneling of the rural poor into it? Who can keep up
with that kind of spending? We've got to look for a better solution.
We've got to look for a strategic solution — not just a solution involv-
ing more and more tactics. And I think if you ask me specific ques-
tions aimed at trying to develop an inconsistency in my philosophy