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eye with the Governor, that you could possibly function.
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You would have to give him your resignation and get out,
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that's all. It just wouldn't work.
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THE CHAIRMAN: Well, I know that what you are
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saying is so, but I am visualizing that there might come
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a time when we won't be as fortunate to have a Jim Rennie
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in as Budget Director and then, particularly with a new
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Governor who may have completely new programs and plans,
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it seems to me that the Budget Director could put a spoke
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in the wheel, if he wanted to.
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MR. RENNIE: Dick, the thought has never entered
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my head that I could possibly disagree with the Governor.
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I give him my best opinion. I don't agree viith him all the
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time, but I tell him what I think about the matter. However
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once he has made his decision on it, then I'm through. It's
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his responsibility, it's his decision, and I do what he
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wants done.
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Now, there is one exception, and I have always
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made this exception. I am also a procurement man. Now,
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if the Governor -- and governors have known this over the
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years — if they ever ask me to do anything that I thought
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