The South Cove Project features two highly unusual and greatly misunderstood projects: the Tufts Complex and the New England Medical Center involves the use of the new Quincy School not only as a school but also as a community health resource with all the social amenities and health services made available in that building. A plan for the expansion of the N.E. Medical Center has also been worked out with the neighborhood. It is substantially a horizontal design which has already been given an award from London "as one of the ten most outstanding architectural innovations in the world."

Very few people know about it, and I suppose that represents one of the areas in which we have not been too successful: the ability to communicate.

There have been other more controversial projects, the West End, for instance. People don't remember anything of when it was started, all they might remember is that it was cleared in 1957. They forget that I wasn't Mayor then. I inherited a place that was cleared with a contractual obligation. The West End hurt because it was a total clearance project; the nation learned a lesson from the West End. Federal policy at the time almost mandated that procedure. It wouldn't have been done that way if I had been Mayor, even if we had to wait to change the policy. In any event it was done.

I also inherited a project in Allston which some professors in my soon to be academic community interested themselves. I suppose with some beneficial results. The plan wasn't a perfect one. Some of the people involved in protesting it were at least as irresponsible as the plan was less than perfect.

I think most of what we tried to do succeeded--granting the exigencies of the way we did it. We had to take ten projects at once; we didn't have the luxury of taking one project, finishing it, and carefully looking at it before starting another one. We involved the community; we had as many as 200 meetings for one project.

Anyone who looks around the City and doesn't realize it is a better city than it was in 1959, has blinders on.

The third aspect of the program which I set out to accomplish in 1959 led to my fight for the sales tax, not because I wanted to make enemies with the tax, but because it was the only tax which could be enacted to bring about some state assistance with some of the great burden, since no one would then put in an income tax. It was passed.

I then led the fight for state assumption of welfare costs, that was originally supposed to be paid for by the sales tax; apparently that money wasn't forthcoming. I pushed that bill through the legislature and with an assist from Mayor-elect White, Speaker Davoren, Majority Leader Bob Quinn, and the Governor, they have now set about funding it. That's a very important piece of legislation for Boston. Admittedly it benefits Boston more than some of the more affluent communities, but that is proper. The distribution procedure now will pay some attention to need. That's the third part of the program; tying together the three are the federal funds. We have been quite successful. Contrary to published reports, Boston has fared better by any radstick than any other city in America with Federal funds.

There remains, however, a significant change in the federal-local relationship which I'm going to be dealing with further on while I'm at MIT. This finding a better way to bring the resources which are in Washington, because of the foresight of our forebears in enacting a graduated income tax, this is the only reasonably progressive and reasonably equitable way of raising the amount of money which is necessary to deal with the crisis of the city