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majority believed that the matter would be best handled
through the creation of an additional committee, and the
Report so recommended.
There was further discussion in the Committee
as to whether the duties and functions of a Committee on
Public Information should be listed or specified in the
Rules themselves. Again, I think a substantial majority
were against that. We noted that no other rule, no
other committee of the Convention has its functions listed
in the Rules, and we didn't think there should be any
exception or any deviation from the committee structure
in connection with the creation of a Committee on Public
Information. However, the Committee wanted to make it
perfectly clear, and I believe Delegate Robey agreed that
this was acceptable to him, that in creating this Com-
mittee, we did not intend, at least our Committee did
not intend it to be an administrative committee, with
supervisory or day-to-day authority over, say the
Director of Public Information, and the Staff that would
be concerned with public information.
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