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minister to these programs. Why do we have national
and water pollution, and povttty,
proa-ros for air pollution/and all the problems that
affect the urban centers? It is because the states have
failed to act and the reason why they have failed to act
is because they are not properly constructed to act.
Now, I will go along with a legislature that
might fumble, that has some built-in you might call them,
checks or balances, so that everybody has a look before
a policy is adopted but once a policy is adopted, then I think the people have aright to expect that it will be
carried out. And that is what this is all about. That
is why we are talking about the single executive, the
person to whom we can look to to carry out these pro-
grams, the person we can blame if they don't get carried
out.
Now, I am for visability but not to the
extent of putting chains on the hands of the Chief
executive. I am for the board of Public Works properly
constituted, but let the legislature make that determination
and as the years pass, let it improve that kind of system
that will produce the most visibility, but let us not |