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1	United States. That is why he came, and this is true of
2	the budgetary process. This is true, also to the surprise
3	of Secretary Krug, when he was testifying before Congress
4	on day and some congressman said, and how much did you ask
5	the President for, and he told him and when he got in his
6	automobile, and was riding back to his office listening to
7	the radio after his Congressional testimony and the announc
8	ment was coming over the air that the resignation of
9	Secretary Krug had been accepted by the President.
10	So, these are important concepts from the stand-
11	point of the executive and the weighing and balancing of
12	the budget process. It has been said by one of the great
13	thinkers in the field, a budget is assigning of weights to
14	value. This is what you do in the budget process. This is
15	true, even though Governors may not sit up twenty-four hour
16	a day participating in the process. Some of them do, by
17	the way. They nevertheless participate along with their
18	staffs in weighing the competing demands of Morgan against
19	the public schools, against the Department of Health,
20	against recreation or many other important things.
21	I've often thought that it really is going to