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Michelangelo was born in 1475. in the town of Caprese, Ita-
ly, about forty miles from Florence. He showed talent at an early
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Donald W. Reynolds, Chairman
Charles C. Drew, General Manager
New Left is
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By William A. Rusher
age, and at thirteen he was apprenticed to the famous painter
Ghirlandaio, in Florence. When Michelangelo was fifteen, he
was taken to live in the Medici palace, almost as a member of the
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powerful Democrat in the federal
government.
What has happened to Wright is, in
one respect, a personal tragedy. A
vain but not venal man, he wrongly
believed that the ethical standards of
a freewheeling Texas in the early
1950s would suffice in a sanctimo-
nious Washington in the late 1980s.
But the events of recent months
also reflect a profound change in the
manner in which the ethics commit-
tee deals with allegations of wrongdo-
ing by members of the House.
If there was a watershed event, it
was the virtually unnoticed ethics
committee recommendation, sus-
tained overwhelmingly by the full
House, to reprimand Rep. Austin J
Murphy, D-Pa., in late 1987 for sever-
al relatively minor transgressions.
Until then, the ethics committee re-
lied upon various devices to evade its
highest peaks of achieve-
ment in two separate fields
of human endeavor. As a
painter, Michelangelo ranks
at or near the very top, both
in the quality of his finest
work and in the influence he
has had upon later painters.
The enormous set of frescoes
with which he decorated the
ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
in Rome is justly celebrated
as one of the greatest artistic
achievements of all time.
Nevertheless, Michelangelo
considered himself to be
many critics consider him
the greatest sculptor who
ever lived. His statues of
David and of Moses, for ex-
ample, and the famous
Pieta. are all works of unex-
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The Case for Limited
Congressional Terms
By WILLIAM MURCHISON
Heritage Features
This is a report on the movement to limit congressional terms
What, you didn’t know there was such a movement?
That’s the point. So far as I know, there isn’t such a movement but
there needs to be, and if reader responses are any indication there
may yet be.
I have touched in several recent writings on the need to de
professionalize the profession of politics, at least at the federal level
The Constitution specifies no limits on the number of terms senators
and congressmen may spend, ah, representing their constituents
No one reveres more highly than do I the sublime work of the
Founding Fathers. If we had founding Father-type representation in
Washington we could consider conclusive their silence on the length
0fastintin Washington. The case, woe and alas, isotherwise
What we have, according to a fascinating, and chilling, new study
by The Heritage Foundation and the Claremont Institute, is an “Im-
perial Congress. "This Congress “has evolved into a different kind of
institution from the legislative body established by the Constitution
Its members now enjoy a security in office, a level of staff support a
close and routine influence over executive agencies, and an ability to
deploy the resources of government that far surpass their con-
stitutional mandate...
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pretty reticent to discipline col- Later that year, the committee re-
leagues, noted a member of the Fort acted to the criticism by proposing
Worth Star-Telegram editorial board, the punishment of Murphy, its first
“Each of us was elected by the peo- disciplinary action in three years. In-
pie of his or her district," responded deed, Murphy portrayed himself as a
Wright. “There is a limit to which any “sacrificial lamb” reprimanded to
of us can discipline one another." quiet the panel’s critics.
He was wrong.
In fact, the House Committee on
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(Continuing the list of “The 100 — A Ranking Of The Most
Influential Persons In History, "begun on these pages April 5,
by Michael H. Hart.)
The great Renaissance artist Michelangelo Buonarroti is the
The committee voted to discipline outstanding figure in the history of the visual arts. A brilliant
standard og--,- Murphy on Dec 16. Only one day ear- painter, sculptor, and architect, Michelangelo left behind an
summarliy ended fe-azondrpoihas noed arormal assortment of masterpieces which have impressed viewers for
cal career of the highest-ranking man - Wright. Neither he nor any- over four centuries. His work profoundly influenced the subse-
mem er.° Congress and the most body else fully understood at the time, quent development of European painting and sculpture
but a new era had begun.
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primarily a sculptor, and
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The 1964 defeat of Barry Goldwa- genius, appears lower on this list than many scientists and inven-
tow tors, many of whom are far less famous than he.
the conservatives. Just two years lat-
er Ronald Reagan was elected gover-
nor of California by nearly a million
votes. In 1968 George Wallace, run-
ning for president on an anti-liberal
third-party ticket, won nearly 10 mil-
lion votes nationwide (13 percent of
the total), and there were still enough
anti-liberals left over to enable Rich-
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Yesiree, son, that shark put up quite a fight
... of course, so did your grandmother."
The most important legislation is drafted by unelected con-
gressional staff, supported by a network of lobbyists representing
special interests. Congressional control over the permanent bureau
cracy, from micromanaging programs to hiring and firing executive
branch personnel, constitutes a threat to the separation of powers
and ultimately to democratic rule. ”
Much can be done about this, and the study, which is book length
makes numerous constructive suggestions. Nothing is said’
however, about term limitation. This is too bad, because term limi-
tation strikes at the heart of the problem. It doesn't aim just at
straightening out the bad guys. It slams the door in their faces and
sends them home. (It sends home the good guys, too, but that's the
breaks. Other good guys will arise.)
What’s the purpose anyway of service in Washington? Service is
the purpose, or so the Founding Fathers would have said. Today
congressmen and senators enter their respective chambers the way
a newly minted MBA enters the brokerage house. They are there for
as long as the money holds out, or until the management takes away
the washroom key, whichever comes first.
Burnout does occur among particular congressmen who decide
t haton the whole they'd be happier practicing law and coaching
-itt le League in Pocatello. One suspects that it’s these who are
knowsdjevenmdesty.east they have a sense or proportion and, who
The rest, who linger on, year after year, decade after decade, are
morally convinced of their own transcedent worth. Without their
services the country would fall apart.' Nobody else can do the job so
well as they. It probably strikes private-sector managers that em-
ployees who consider themselves indispensable and irreplaceable
are the very sort who should be replaced.
The most common justification for the present state of affairs is the
imputed need for experience on Capitol Hill. After 10 or 20 years, the
rising Washington politician starts to crest. He knows the ropes, and
alsothe burial place of the bodies. He can get things done.
Experience is not to be despised, but the need for it, in my own
view, no longer overrides the argument for frequent house
cleanings. By regularly vacuuming up incumbents, we would clear
the place for new talent, new ideas. Surely that never comes amiss9
As for the specifics of term limitation, we could do it in any of
various ways. John Connally, who has espoused the idea for years
suggests that House members be elected to two four year terms and
senators one eight-year term. They could run at that time for another
Washington job but never again for that particular one
I have myself recommended 12-year maximums for members of
both houses; the important thing is not where the cap is set but that it
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Ah, but who s going to do that ? Term limitation would require a
constitutional amendment. Can we really expect our public stewards
to commit professional suicide? Connally addresses the problem by
advocating a grandfather clause exempting all present members of
Congress. It might do the job.
Meanwhile, under this sort of prodding, the term limitation move-
ment broadens. One reader, who works as a sort of psychological
counselor, advocates a term limitation on columnists say, one year.
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But to brag, as they do, that they
forced an end to the Vietnam War is ‘ he Daud. in the Aecademid
to misconceive the distribution of the in Florence.
ThrwarnromedheTersgwwrhoaopposed ,. Michelangelo was also a highly talented architect. Among
minority (though a slowly growing his well-known achievements in this field is the design of the
one). As the public opinion polls of the Medici Chapel in Florence. For a good mans x ears he was also
th e cm.,chiled of St. Peters in Rome.
tion to the U.S. government's resolute Michelangelo composed many poems during his lifetime
canswinPoir-anhnangrtafmerts some 300 of which survive. His numerous sonnet, and other
and who favored winning the war by Poems were not published until well after his death. They pro-
any means necessary, that finally 'ide considerable insight into his personality and clearly show
Pgouted a national majority for pull- that he was a talented poet.
. mi...... As 1 have explained in the article on Shakespeare, it is my
comments indicate that 'they'also mis- belief that art and artists in general have had comparatively little
conceive the whole political meaning influence upon human history and everyday life. It is for that
and outcome of the 1960s. reason that Michelangelo, despite his eminence as an artistic
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family, by Lorenzo the Magnificent, the ruler of Florence, who
It has been 20 years, now since the became his patron. Throughout his career, Michelangelo's enor-
height of the furor known as “the mous talent was obvious, and he was frequently commissioned
60s," and the New Left personalities by popes and secular rulers alike, to design and produce works of
graduatesspegrhstudanthaopncnosnt art Although he lived in1) arious places, most of his life was spent
enon have been appearing on televi- in mome and Florence. He died in Rome, in 1564, shortly before
sion to be interviewed on how they his eighty-ninth birthday. He never married.
fft sbemsitole the shared assump- Although he was not quite as universal a genius as his older
tion of the interviewers and the inter- contemporary, Leonardo da Vinci. Michelangelo's versatility is
viewees that the '60s “changed Amer-
ica" - implicitly for the better. The
major figures of those days, now in
....... . . ------- their 40s and running to fat, expand
responsibilities. Among them: genially under the stroking of their
• It almost never opened an investi- TV hosts, smiling nostalgically over
gation on its own initiative Instead, it the remembered thrills, admitting
grudgingly reacted to disclosures ruefully that not everything has sub
made by newspapers or other outside sequent ly gone as they honed but
organizations, k . modestly accepting nonetheless the
• It seldom took any punitive action interviewer’s misty-eyed tribute to
againsta member of the House unless their vision and their impact on
and until the legislator was convicted American society.
on criminal charges in the federal I must have spent the last 20 years
courts,, .10., in some other America. In mine, a
e2.troutinely absolved violators of raucous army of college-age leftists
both federal law and congressional egged on by radical junior professors
ethics codes|f they repa'd money they and the media and either exempt
should not have taken, filed hastily re- from military service in Vietnam or
vised versions of flagrantly deceptive determined not to serve there did
financial reports or otherwise “made their level but unsuccessful best to
things right again overturn the American social order
• It accepted the flimsiest of ex- Instead, they inadvertently triggered
cuses and explanations by lawmak- the formation of a brand-new &msr
ers.Insevera 1 cases, for example, vative political coalition that has
legislators failed to report free rides dominated the nation ever since,
in corporate jets of firms with an in- It is perfectly true that in certain
terestinspending legislation important respects the leftist radicals
.Gifts with value of more than of the ‘60s did have a lasting impact
3100 must be publicly disclosed. But - and a damaging one. They spear
legislators being probed were ex- headed the sexual revolution, which in
cused bythe committee if they could wide areas has all but destroyed the
cite a $99 one-way coach fare offered American family and the force for
.b.^nf^‘rllneatanyllmeonthero^ stability that it represented They
A.“ommittee’s modus operandi wururgsthaeshisfprotorgrotehedru
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OUR LANGUAGE1 True, it took a further 10 years,
-A- — scarred by Nixon’s highly erratic per-
by Jeffrey McQuain formance and the Watergate scandal,
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in frequent P on the national scene as a major force
Jactation rerers tn - in the mid-1960s. And their appear-
boasting Of course if baggingor ance and growth was, largely though
knew this little-used wirayyuurr endy not entirely, fueled by the national re-
tied to enjoy some jactation. nt action to the grotesqueries of the New
Q. Someone who makes women's
ats iscalled a milliner. Why? Today, of course, the New Left is as
enAnMi run comes from a variant devoid of ideas or hope as the Old
speling of Milaner, referring to some- Left. But it should not be allowed to
oneassociated with Milan, Ialy. Fine suppose, let alone rewrite history to
uTLJl women s apparel from Mi- suggest, that there was a time in the
answere.among the featured mer- '60s that represented a sort of New
chrndise of.millinerswhen they first Left Camelot. That was simply an il-
wore the label of milliner in 1530. lusion generated by the media.
Brenda Baker, Office Manager Sukena Fidaali Taibjee, Spotlight Editor
14-month investigation of Rep. Fer-
nand St Germain, D-R.I., chairman of
WASHINGTON (NEA) — In an in- the House Banking Committee in the
terview with his hometown newspa- spring of 1987.
power and commitment of the cham- multimillion-dollar fortune during his
her s ethics committee, political career with “lots of invest-
■ ment help from people and institu-
tions that have benefited from his of-
ficial actions.” (St Germain lost his
ROBERT bid for re-election last year in a race
WALTERS ins, hieh his ethics were the main
Although the ethics panel conclud-
ed that St Germain became rich
through abuse of his office, it recom-
“Do you have confidence in the eth- mended no punishment. That action
ics committee? More than a few peo- evoked unprecedented scorn and
pie feel like the ethics committee is ridicule.
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