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094468 1 (1969-07-11)

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                                                               094468

   ADDRESS BY THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES,
   ELMER B. STAATS, BEFORE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE COMMITTEE
   ON GOVERNMENT RELATIONS OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF
   COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY BUSINESS OFFICERS, SAN FRANCISCO,
   CALIFORNIA, JULY 11, 1969


                     THE POLITICS OF KNOWLEDGE


     I have chosen the title The Politics of Knowledge for my

remarks this evening because it seems to express in a fewiwords

the problems which confront us mutually.  I use the sometimes

unrespected word politics as meaning the science or art of

government in a democracy.  The-extent that the public funds of the

United States are applied to various aspects of costs of operating

our colleges and universities is the measure of the public's or the

political interest.  At the present time about  13 percent of our

national budget  (exclusive of our war and othef military costs

in Southeast Asia) is allotted for one purpose or another to universi-

ties or colleges.  This amounts to over 20 billion dollars of a

total budget outlay of some  152 billion dollars. Any time public

expenditures reach this  level,the management of these funds becomes

a matter of political  interest.  In western societies there is a

mandate that the funds be expended  economically and efficiently,

that the results be  effective, and that all of this be publicly

accounted for.

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