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system is entirely satisfactory because no more than you
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are elected Governor, you, of course, immediately begin,
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if you are elected in November, you immediately begin at
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that very minute to work on the budget. In other words,
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the Budget Director then confers with you and not the
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Governor that is going out, so you have from November
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until -- November, December and January to work on the
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budget, and that has been the policy in this State, and I
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see no reason, in my opinion, for changing it.
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Should the administrative structure of the
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State be reorganized so as to concentrate more power in
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the Governor?
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Yes. The dominant characteristic -- and the
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dominant deficiency -- in State government is the plural
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executive. Nowhere else on the American organizational
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scene do we see this anachronism, this atavistic relic.
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Virtually everywhere else in American organizations --
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industrial, commercial, institutional, and in most other
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governmental sectors — the unequivocal rule of action,
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indeed the fundamental premise, of administration is the
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Chief Executive in both name find fact. It has long been
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