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expansion, which he felt was an expansion of a successful black small businessmen to his own administration.

I don't know how successful small businesses have been, minority because the data probably will show that only about fifty percent of them that start, continue. But I do think that one has to be fair and say that Nixon did--during the Nixon administration more attention was put on attempting to develop small businesses among minorities than in any administration since then. I don't know what the Reagan administration--I think the Reagan administration is cutting back on the SBA in general.

If I am recalling what I've read correctly, the administration wanted to collapse the Small Business Administration but Congress, and I think this is very recent, neither chamber of Congress is going to let him do it. But apparently, they may prepare no funds but not collapse it.

But they certainly aren't giving them resources to intensify their work.

Well, of course isn't it also true that the Reagan administration, when Congress expressed its will and gave its money, didn't necessarily spend that money?

That's right. My facetious comment on matters of education, improvement, and support from the federal government on the one hand,