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GOVERNOR TAWES: No, I don't believe he should
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be given the same powers as the Governor has. No, I think,
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though, that he should be able to sit in on the various
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meetings and make minor policy decisions in the absence of
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the Governor and so on, and then I think someone of that
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nature would be -- we are living now in a State with over
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3 1/2 million people and the demands on the Governor are great
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to attend functions all over the State. Well, I have to
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pick someone wherever I can, I don't have an assistant
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governor, so to speak, a lieutenant governor, to send to
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represent me at various dinners and functions, and so on,
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and the invitations run anywhere from fifteen to twenty-
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five a day, and we try to find different individuals, Maybe
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the Attorney General, maybe the Comptroller, maybe the
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President of the Senate, or the Speaker of the House, we
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call on them and ask them if they will represent the
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Governor at some function where we think representation of
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the Executive should be, so that's the way we operate now,
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but then there should be some tightening up of that loose
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policy.
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MR. SAYRE: Governor, on the succession, if
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