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wasn't right about State purchases or procurement, he would
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have my resignation so quick, it would make his head spin.
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I couldn't tolerate this. I mean — I wish you wouldn't
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write all this stuff down.
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THE CHAIRMAN: Don't you think that the major
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part of your office ought to have a separate division?
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MR. RENNIE: You mean in a separate agency?
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THE CHAIRMAN: Yes.
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MR. RENNIE: I told the reorganization crowd
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the other day that I don't think any intermediate authority
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should be pushed between the Budget Director and the Gover-
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nor. Well, you're talking about purchasing. Pardon me.
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Purchasing, it's worked very well, because we're a small
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State and we can get the information from the Purchasing
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Bureau on costs and things and put it in the budget, but
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necessarily, purchasing doesn't necessarily have to be a
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part of the Budget Bureau.
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This was inadvertently brought about because of
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Walter Kirkman. Walter Kirkman was purchasing agent over
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the years, before we had a Budget Department which was
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started in 1939, and that combination was hooked together
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