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through the year. In other words -- now this is off the
record just so as to give you the thought in back of my
head. It will be a great deal better for the government
as a whole if Congress could keep in very close touch
right straight through the year with the operations of
the Administrative Branch of the Government. The custom
in the past has been for Congress, every once in so often,
to conduct an investigation which goes back two or three
or four or five years. It doesn't do anybody any partic-
ular good because it would be a great deal better, if the
Administration is doing anything it should not do, to
have it known right away.
So, for a long time, I have been trying to work out
some practical method of keeping the Congress in touch,
day in and day out, with what the Administration is do-
ing, so that there won't be an accumulation of things
which may result, after a long period of years, in scan-
dal or investigation. At the same time we could keep
perfectly clear the separation of functions.
Some of you who were in Albany remember the drag-
down knock-out fight I had four years ago when the ef-
fort of the New York State Legislature to maintain,
throughout the year, a control over the expenditures
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