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If there are any questions that I can answer,

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I will be happy to endeavor to do so.

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THE PRESIDENT: Are there any questions of

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the Committee Chairman?

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Delegate Burdette.

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DELEGATE BURDETTE: I should like to make just

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a little legislative history. About the intent of the

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Committee with respect to page 3 with the first resolve,

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the language empowers the president to employ an

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appropriate staff which will, under the direction of the

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president, conclude the business and including in that

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conclusion of the business, the compilation, the preservation,

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and the publication, where desirable, of its files,

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records, transcripts, histories, and journals.

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Now, I hope, Mr. Chairman, and I am virtually

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sure that the intent of the Committee is that this language

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authorizes the president to decide what the Convention

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shall do with regard to preservation and publication so

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far as the Convention itself is concerned. I think it

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could be interpreted, however, to authorize that the

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Convention has an exclusive use or an exclusive power to