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beginning of their term in order not to get out of posi-
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tion with relation to seniority, so technically I have
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been Governor twice. The Legislature promptly elected me
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Governor for the interim of about six, or seven or nine
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days, and then I was sworn in again.
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With reference to the administrative structure
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of the State being reorganized so as to concentrate more
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power on the Governor, yes, in some respects.
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I am not qualified to say what the restrictions
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or the limitations, the detailed limitations should be,
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but to put it in the vernacular, the one who takes the rap
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for anything being done in the end is the Governor, and I
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think that he deserves that protection in the management
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of the Executive Department, and I think that the power of
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the Governor should be expanded with necessary or appro-
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priate restrictions to let him run his own department.
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Now, the danger might be that you get something
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like a czar in there, too deep a political leader, and
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it should have in its application some form of restriction,
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but his hands should be loosened a little bit to run what
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he is responsible for, and the only way he can do it, that
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