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This does not mean that: the attorney general
must somehow pervert his oath of office or pervert the
canons of his profession. It does mean that he has to be
an intimate adviser of the chief executive of the State.
In the colloquy which occurred on this floor
; yesterday between Delegate Mason and myself, my central
i concern there was to find out why an elected attorney
general would do a better job in giving advice to a governojr
in the development of legal opinions necessary to a fur-
therance of the program of the governor, and to the
implementation of legislation and rules necessary to the
' carrying out of the law and the carrying out of the policy
in the State.
I must say that I got no satisfactory answer to
that question. I think there is no satisfactory answer to
that question, because I think that a governor, just
as the President, just as the mayor, is entitled to a chief
legal officer, an attorney general, if you please, but
a chief legal officer who is an integral part of his
administration.
i There are other problems, of course, in the