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1	JUDGE ADKINS: Fine. Well, we have provided
2	you with a list of questions of matters that are under
3	consideration by our Committee, and I think we would be
4	happy to have you comment on any or all of those questions
5	that you feel you would like to comment on. We are, for
6	example, interested in whether. or not you feel that the
7	two-term limitation should be continued.
8	GOVERNOR TAWES: Yes. Well, my answer to that
9	would be Yes. I think the two consecutive term limita-
10	tion should be continued. I think four years is too lit-
11	tle, too short a time for a governor, to properly put
12	through his entire program that he anticipates putting
13	through when he assumes office.
14	Many states throughout the nation have two-year
15	terms with no limit to the number "of terms a governor may
16	succeed himself. Many of them have a limit of one four-
17	year terra and in discussion these limitations of one four-
18	year term with governors throughout the South, particularly
19	where this exists, they feel that four years is just too
20	short a time.
21	Now, in Texas, Governor Connelly had a con-