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1	ment head from when I come into office with the exception
2	of those who have retired or who have died and left a
3	vacancy, but I followed eight years of a Republican adminis
4	tration, and I have not found it necessary, and I don't
5	recall a case where I found it necessary to be unhappy
6	about the department head.
7	MR. BOND: May I ask you another question,
8	would you limit this power of the Governor's appointments
9	to just the heads of the departments and let all the sub-
10	heads and the various heads of divisions within the depart-
11	ment have tenure and be members of the merit system?
12	GOVERNOR TAWES: Well, not all of them, I
13	wouldn't say in every instance. I think where you have in
14	the correctional institutions the wardens, I don't think
15	they should be under the merit system, but I think the
16	department head should have the right to appoint those per-
17	sons. Maybe they could have tenure, I don't know, but I
18	don't think they should be merit system employees. I mean
19	I am speaking of positions of that kind, but I think the
20	department head should have the authority to operate his
21	department as he deems necessary, and expedient and proper.