"The Trouble with a Commission"

uh every time you appoint one of these committees you get more than you can do anything about for instance i kennedy jack kennedy spent 9 billion on the cities in his last federal budget in 64. this year i've got 22 in there yet bobby says i'm not doing enough yet the congress is going to cut about five out of what i've got and i'm fighting to hold it the kerner commission made a very exhaustive study and spent a couple of million dollars but they recommended that i spend 80 million and i got no place to get the 80 i can't borrow it i can't tax it i can't get a tax bill of any kind and they didn't discuss that that's the detail they didn't get into and bobby just gave me hell today for not carrying out the kerner commission study well i i didn't realize when i parted turner that this son of a [ __ ] from new york lindsay would take charge he did take charge and he recommended i hire two and a half million people on federal payroll and i just i've not wanted to reflect on turner and criticize the commission at the same time i couldn't embrace it because i've got a budget when i came in kennedy had a budget of 97 billion my budget tonight's 187. now that's what's happened in four years and i got to have some fiscal solvents and i can't have it unless i have a tax bill but bobby said today that i'm not i'm not doing enough for the cities well i want to do everything a human can if they'll give me any money but i now the trouble with the commission your part one and my gosh they're allowable to recommend to you something that you have to turn over and knock down it'll hurt you worse unless you're careful

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Length: 2min 18sec (138 seconds)

Published: Wed Dec 15 2021