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answered me in a way I've never forgotten. He said, look,
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I'm in Public Health and I'm an advocate for Public Health,
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just as you are for education. He said, I think it's my
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job to sell Public Health. I've got to have fifteen or
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twenty programs ready to go at any time because I am
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convinced that "these are the most important programs we
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are to have. He said, somebody has to decide when we can
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spend it for Public Health, when it should go for education
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when it should go for highways. He said, this is the
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Governor's job. This is the executive function.
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He wasn't talking about me individually. He was
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talking about the Budget Office as an organization, and
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I have never forgotten this because I think it Has an
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explanation which I have carried with me ever since. If
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you think of this as the executive function of the Governor
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and not as a separate accounting arm, I think this is very
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appropriate to have this responsibility placed there.
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DR. JENKINS: Finally, I am sure you have
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mentioned this matter of administration not as a State --
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for example, not as a constitutional provision, but as sort
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of background, perhaps with this new Commission and
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