Capitol or Bust

Washington, D.C.

AFTER all the fuss about whether to install a bust of Spiro Agnew at the Capitol, I am pleased to report complete success. national review took up Agnew’s cause four years ago after learning that he, alone among Vice Presidents, had been excluded from the Capitol’s pantheon, apparently the old Senate leadership’s idea of a moral point. Under the new leadership it has all been resolved satisfactorily: not only is there a bust, the thing stares right out at the main entrance to the Senate chamber (a reminder to Democrats of which party’s in charge, and to Republicans of which magazine not to cross).