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1	Should the Governor take office sooner than
2	the fourth Wednesday in January so that he can assume res-
3	ponsibility for the budget preparation for the next
4	legislative session?
5	He does, anyhow. He has got to do it. The
6	election is in November, and it might be that he needs,
7	after a hard campaign, a brief rest, but I think the ex-
8	perience that has been expressed by Governor Tawes and
9	also by Mayor McKeldin, that has been our history, and I
10	see no need to change that, to advance it.
11	I don't think we are taking ony risks when I
12	recollect the time I started on the preparation of the
13	budget and the accommodation that was given to me in order
14	to get a difficult and a torturous task done, and in ad-
15	dition to that, he has got to see a lot of people who at
16	times demand to see him, no matter what the subject of the
17	discussion might be.
18	I don't think that the time of the Governor
19	going into office should be changed. As you may recall,
20	when I ran in 1946, Governor O'Conor was elected to the
21	Senate, and he had to go to swear in in the Senate at the