No, no, I understand what you are saying. Whether or not you yourself had
a secure position it seems to me that the organization was secure once
they had created it there was no way they could undo it. They couldn't
say, "oops, we made a mistake, we changed our mind, we don't want
regional education, we don't want any of this," strictly because they
saw it going in a racial direction that they didn't like. They couldn't
have gotten away with that it seems to me. The realization that SREB had
a life of its own, that the governors as individuals no longer had the
power, I mean, they could have stopped their state's appropriation
probably. Individually they could have done that, but there never was a
majority for that position anyway. SREB would have gone on even with a
partial budget until somewhere down the line when everybody must have
looked at it and said, "this is as permanent an
institution in the South now as the University of Georgia or the
university of South Carolina."