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JUDGE ADKINS: Fine. Well, we have provided
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you with a list of questions of matters that are under
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consideration by our Committee, and I think we would be
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happy to have you comment on any or all of those questions
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that you feel you would like to comment on. We are, for
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example, interested in whether. or not you feel that the
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two-term limitation should be continued.
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GOVERNOR TAWES: Yes. Well, my answer to that
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would be Yes. I think the two consecutive term limita-
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tion should be continued. I think four years is too lit-
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tle, too short a time for a governor, to properly put
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through his entire program that he anticipates putting
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through when he assumes office.
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Many states throughout the nation have two-year
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terms with no limit to the number "of terms a governor may
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succeed himself. Many of them have a limit of one four-
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year terra and in discussion these limitations of one four-
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year term with governors throughout the South, particularly
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where this exists, they feel that four years is just too
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short a time.
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Now, in Texas, Governor Connelly had a con-
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