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I don't prepare a book, take it down there and throw it on

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his desk and say, Governor, here's my budget recommendation

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We would be silly to do it that way. In the first place,

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we wouldn ' t have time to do it .

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We work it out cooperatively, as we go along.

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As we get a group of budgets prepared on our recommendation

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then we notify the Governor and he very graciously comes

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to my office, where all the records are. I remember one

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time where we had to do this all over the Emerson Hotel.

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He had to haul everything back and forth. But he comes up

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and sits down with us on what we have done and our requests

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and our allocations and allotments. If he agrees, okay,

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go ahead. If he has any suggestions or changes he wants

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to make, he makes them, and we do this on a piecemeal basis

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because on the printing schedule, I would say conservativel

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that we have to have half the budget printed before we seres

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the other half. We get rid of the innocuous things first,

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so the printer can meet the deadline for the presentation

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to the legislature.

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Now, on the school thing and the mandatory busi-

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ness --