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1	questions that you have propounded. 1 have my own pre-
2	pared answers, and if you would like to hear those ond
3	then ask ne at the end of each one any other thing you want
4	to ask me, I will be glad to give you my answer.
5	JUDGE ADKINS: I think that is an excellent
6	way to proceed.
7	MAYOR McKELDIN: The first question that was
8	submitted to me is, Should the restriction limiting a
9	governor to two consecutive terms be continued? I don't
10	know if I could give a definite answer to that. I remem-
11	ber when we enacted that, I talked with Governor Dewey
12	in New York at the time. He said, Why in the world would
13	you pass such a law as that? If you have a good man, you
14	want to keep him, don't you? If you have a bad man, you
15	can get rid of him. Why would you want to get rid of him
16	at the end of two terms? Well, I said, We feel that maybe
17	there will be a dynasty if one man stays for fifteen years
18	or sixteen years as Governor Ritchie for fifteen years,
19	and he will build up such an organization that it probably
20	would be very difficult to get rid of him, even though late
21	on he turned out not to be as good as he was in the begin-