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1	very fine.
2	"The estimates for the Legislative Department,
3	certified by the presiding officer of each house, of the
4	judiciary, as provided by law, certified by the Comptroller
5	and for the public schools, as provided by law, shall be
6	transmitted to the Governor, in such form and as such times
7	as he shall direct, and shall be included in the budget
8	without revision."
9	Now, when I was on the State Board of Education,
10	I remember this, and as you quite properly called it, it
11	was considered the sacred cow and I remember too that some-
12	body hung a couple of brackets on that clause in 1947 when
13	the Sherbow Commission reports were being implemented by
14	legislation, which caused our mutual friend Dr. Thomas G.
15	Pullen to be the first man on the moon. He always blamed
16	Dr. Flack for doing it, but you remember that — you, of
17	course, were deputy then and Mr. Kirkman was the Budget
18	Director, but somebody put a couple of brackets around that
19	clause which would in effect have taken that out of the
20	Constitution, and he presented quite a long scholarly
21	argument in favor of retention of the clause, the main