S7680 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE July 16, 2001 in some cases, helped them escape jus- 1969–1971—The Art Institute of Chicago, As- meet the Museum’s 25-year requirements for tice. sistant Curator of Twentieth-Century Art. new or renovated space. Twenty galleries for The American people deserve a full 1972–1982—Philadelphia Museum of Art, Cu- modern and contemporary art were ren- accounting of the decisions that led to rator of Twentieth-Century Art. ovated and reopened in the fall of 2000. A 1982–1996—Philadelphia Museum of Art, capital campaign with a goal of $200 million the acceptance of Nazi war criminals as The George D. Widener Director. was formally launched in December 2000, and employees of the United States govern- 1997—Philadelphia Museum of Art, The $100 million was raised by March of 2001. ment. It also is important that the George D. Widener Director and Chief Execu- Institutional Boards (Current): Regent of United States work with other coun- tive Officer. the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, tries to expedite the release of infor- BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY D.C.; Visiting Committee, J. Paul Getty Mu- seum, Malibu, CA; Academic Trustee for the mation regarding the use of Nazi war Curator of Twentieth-Century Art. For a dec- School of Historical Studies, Institute for ade between 1972 and 1982, Miss criminals as intelligence operatives. Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ; Board of Di- We need to learn more about the Holo- d’Harnoncourt served as Curator of 20th Cen- rectors, The Henry Luce Foundation, Inc., caust and its aftermath. The inter- tury Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. New York, NY; Board of Trustees, Fairmount national community must learn the A specialist in the art of Marcel Duchamp, Park Art Association of Philadelphia, Phila- lessons of history, so that never again she co-organized a major retrospective exhi- delphia, PA; Board of Overseers, Graduate bition in 1973–74, which originated in Phila- will we face this type of evil. School of Fine Arts, University of Pennsyl- delphia and traveled to The Museum of Mod- vania, Philadelphia, PA; Board of Trustees, f ern Art, New York and The Art Institute of Fairmount Park Art Association of Philadel- SMITHSONIAN BOARD OF REGENTS Chicago. Other exhibitions organized or co- phia, Philadelphia, PA; Board of Overseers, organized by Miss d’Harnoncourt include Fu- Graduate School of Fine Arts, University of Mr. COCHRAN. Madam President, turism and the International Avant-Garde Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; Board of Di- last week I introduced two resolutions (1980), Violet Oaklev (1979), Eight Artists rectors, The Georgia O’Keeffe Foundation, appointing citizen regents of the Board (1978) and John Cage: Score & Prints (1982). Abiquiu, NM. of Regents of the Smithsonian Institu- During her tenure as curator, she reinstalled Memberships (Current): Trustee, Associa- tion. It is an honor to serve on the the permanent galleries in the wing of the tion of Art Museum Directors: Advisory Museum devoted to 20th-century art, cre- Committee, The Fabric Workshop, Philadel- Board of Regents as one of the three ating rooms specifically dedicated to the United States Senators privileged to do phia, PA; Member, American Philosophical work of Duchamp and the sculpture of Society, Philadelphia, PA; Advisory Board, so. My fellow Regents, Senators FRIST Brancusi. During her curatorship the Mu- Foundation for French Museums Inc.; Fellow and LEAHY join me as cosponsors of seum made the commitment to building a of the American Academy of Arts and both resolutions. substantial contemporary collection, acquir- Sciences, Cambridge, MA. At its May 7, 2001 meeting, the Board ing works by Ellsworth Kelly, Dan Flavin, Institutional Memberships (Past): Museum of Regents voted to nominate Ms. Anne Brice Marden, Agnes Martin, Claes Panel, National Endowment for the Arts, d’Harnoncourt for a second term and Oldenburg, Katherine Anne Porter, Dorothea 1976–78; Visual Arts Panel, National Endow- Mr. Roger W. Sant to fill the vacancy Rockburne, James Rosenquist, and Frank ment for the Arts, 1978–80; Board of Trustees, Stella, among others. caused by the resignation of the Honor- Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Director: Projects undertaken by the Mu- Washington, D.C., 1974–86; Museum Program able Howard H. Baker, Jr. seum during Miss d’Harnoncourt’s director- Overview Panel, National Endowment for the For the information of the Senate, I ship to date include a sequence of major ex- Arts, 1986–87; Indo/U.S. Subcommission on ask unanimous consent that the cur- hibitions originated by Museum curators, Education and Culture, 1983–87; National En- riculum vitae of Ms. d’Harnoncourt and such as: Sir Edwin Landseer (1982), The dowment for the Arts, Indemnity Panel, the biographical sketch of Mr. Sant be Pennsylvania Germans: A Celebration of 1985–88; Harvard University Art Museums printed in the RECORD, following my Their Arts (1983), Masters of 17th-Century Visiting Committee, 1983–88; Board of Advi- remarks. Dutch Genre Painting (1984), Federal Phila- sors, Center for Advanced Study in the Vis- delphia (1987), Anselm Kiefer (1988), Workers: There being no objection, the mate- ual Arts (CASVA), National Gallery of Art, The Photographs of Sebastiano Salgado 1987–89; Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, rial was ordered to be printed in the (1993), Japanese Design (1994) major 1992–99. RECORD, as follows: retrospectives of Brancusi (1995) and Ce´zanne Exhibitions Organized: CURRICULUM VITAE OF ANNE D’HARNONCOURT (1996), The Splendor of 18th-Century Rome Marcel Duchamp. The Philadelphia Mu- (MRS. JOSEPH J. RISHEL) (2000), Hon’ami Ko˜ o˜ etsu (2000) and Van Gogh: seum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, Born September 7, 1943, Washington, DC. Face to Face (2000). She encouraged a series The Art Institute of Chicago, 1973–74. (Col- Present Position: The George D. Widener Di- of scholarly publications devoted to the per- laboration with Kynaston McShine, The Mu- rector and Chief Executive Officer Philadel- manent collections: British Paintings (1986), seum of Modern Art). phia Museum of Art. Oriental Carpets (1988), Northern European Philadelphia: Three Centuries of American Education: The Brearley School, New York Paintings (1990), Paintings from Europe and Art. Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1976. (One City, 1949–1961. the Americas: A Concise Catalogue (1994), a of several collaborators under the direction Radcliffe College, Cambridge, MA, 1960– new Handbook (1995), and a Handbook to the of Darrel Sewell. Curator of American Art, 1965: Majored in History and Literature of Museum’s textile collections (1998). Philadelphia Museum of Art). Europe and England since 1740, with addi- Between 1992 and 1995, in a massive build- Eight Artists. Philadelphia Museum of Art, tional course work in the history of architec- ing project undertaken to reinstall all of the 1978. Violet Oakley. Philadelphia Museum of ture. B.A. thesis on comparative aspects of Museum’s European collections, over 90 gal- Art, 1979. (Collaboration with Ann Percy, the poetry of Shelley and Holderlin. B.A. leries were renovated and relit, while thou- sands of works of art were examined, con- Philadelphia Museum of Art). magna cum laude, June 1965. Futurism and the International Avant- Courtauld Institute of Art, London Univer- served and placed in fresh contexts. During her tenure as director, appointments to the Garde. Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1980. sity, 1965–1967: First year course: Seminar in John Cage: Scores and Prints. Whitney professional staff include senior curators of European art since 1830. Second year: spe- Museum of American Art, Albright-Knox Prints, Drawings and Photographs and Euro- cialized research on the period 1900–1915 in Museum, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1982. pean Decorative Arts, curators of Indian Art, Italy, France and Germany, M.A. thesis on (Collaboration with Patterson Sims, Whit- Prints and Twentieth-Century Art, as well as moral subject matter in mid-19th century ney Museum). British painting, with emphasis on the Pre- a Senior Curator of Education, a new Librar- Publications: Raphaelites. M.A. with distinction, June ian and conservators in the fields of decora- ‘‘Etant Donne´s . . . Reflections on a New 1967. tive arts, furniture, painting and works on Work by Marcel Duchamp.’’ Philadelphia Honors: Elected to Phi Beta Kappa in 1964; paper. Most recently, following her assump- Museum of Art Bulletin (double issue April/ Captain Jonathan Fay Prize, Radcliffe Col- tion of additional responsibilities in 1997 June and July/September 1969). Co-author lege, 1965; Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et upon the retirement of Robert Montgomery with Walter Hopps. des Lettres, Republic of France, 1995; Phila- Scott as President of the Museum, Miss Introduction to exhibition catalogue for delphia Award, 1997. d’Harnoncourt and the newly appointed Marcel Duchamp, 1973. Chronology and cata- Museum Experience: Chief Operating Officer led the institution logue entries prepared jointly with Kynaston 1966–1967—Tate Gallery, London. Six through a long-range planning process with a McShine of The Museum of Modern Art. months of work as part of Courtauld M.A. view to celebrating the Museum’s 125th anni- ‘‘A. E. Gallatin and the Arensbergs: Pio- thesis, preparing full catalogue entries on 30 versary in the year 2001 with a number of neer Collectors of 20th-Century Art,’’ Apollo, Pre-Raphaelite paintings and drawings in new initiatives. July 1974 (special issue devoted to Philadel- the Tate collection. In the year 2000, the Museum acquired a phia Museum of Art collections). 1967–1969—Philadelphia Museum of Art, Cu- landmark building across the street and em- 132 biographies and catalogue entries in ratorial Assistant, Department of Painting barked upon a comprehensive masterplan for ‘‘Philadelphia: Three Centuries of American and Sculpture. its use and the additional steps necessary to Art’’, 1976. July 16, 2001 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S7681 ‘‘The Cubist Cockatoo: Preliminary Explo- and President Gerald R. Ford turned 88 Staff to President Ford and Secretary of De- ration of Joseph Cornell’s Hommages to on July 14. A birthday tribute to our fense in the first Bush administration. Juan Gris,’’ Philadelphia Museum of Art 38th President was written by White On May 21st, at the John F. Kennedy Li- Bulletin, June 1978. brary and Museum in Boston, Mass., Mr. ‘‘The Fist of Boccioni meets Miss FlicFlic House correspondent Trude B. Feldman Ford was the recipient of the John F. Ken- ChiapChiap,’’ Art News, November 1980. for the New York Times Syndicate; and nedy Profile In Courage Award. Presented by Introductory essay to exhibition catalogue it includes reflections by former Presi- the former President’s daughter, Caroline, for Futurism and the International Avant- dents Richard Nixon and Ronald and his brother, Senator Edward M. Kennedy Garde (Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1980). Reagan, given to Ms. Feldman for Ger- (D-Mass.), the award cites President Ford’s ‘‘We have eyes as well as ears,’’ essay for ald Ford’s 80th birthday. I ask unani- courage in making the controversial decision publication accompanying exhibition ‘‘John mous consent that the article be print- of conscience to pardon former President Cage: Scores and Prints’’, 1982. Richard M. Nixon. ed in the RECORD. ‘‘Duchamp, 1911–1915,’’ in the exhibition Twenty seven years ago on August 9, 1974, catalogue Marcel Duchamp (Tokyo, The President Ford was a healing force at Richard Nixon resigned the presidency of the Seibu Museum of Art). Reprinted as ‘‘Before a time of much greater political up- U.S. and Vice President Ford became the the Glass: Reflections on Marcel Duchamp heaval than we have today. The lessons 38th president. A month later (September 8), before 1915’’ in the exhibition catalogue to us today are that: disagreements President Ford granted a ‘‘full, free and ab- Duchamp (Barcelona: Fundacio Joan Miro, should not become divisive; and polit- solute pardon’’ to Nixon ‘‘for all offenses 1984). ical revenge is a vicious cycle without against the U.S. which he . . . has com- Preface to ‘‘Marcel Duchamp, Notes’’, ar- winners. mitted or may have committed or taken part ranged and translated by Paul Matisse (Bos- Most important, as President Ford in’’ while he was president. ton: G. K. Hall & Company, 1983). Today, Mr. Ford concedes that he did not Preface to ‘‘Marcel Duchamp, Manual of reiterates in this interview, is that expect such a ‘‘hostile’’ reaction. ‘‘That was Instructions for Etant Donne´s ...’’ (Phila- ‘‘truth is the glue that holds govern- one of the greatest disappointments of my delphia Museum of Art, 1987). ment together—not only our govern- presidency,’’ he told me. ‘‘Everyone focused ‘‘Paying Attention,’’ in the exhibition ment, but civilization itself.’’ on the individual instead of on the problems catalogue Rolywholyover/A Circus/John Cage He tells Ms. Feldman, who has also the nation faced. I thought people would con- (Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art, written numerous articles on Mr. Ford sider Richard Nixon’s resignation sufficient 1983). and his family for McCall’s Magazine, punishment, even shame. I expected more that his main ambition was to become forgiveness.’’ BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF ROGER W. SANT In accepting the Profile In Courage Award, Speaker of the House of Representa- Mr. Sant is Chairman of the Board of the Mr. Ford told members of the Kennedy fam- AES Corporation, which he co-founded in tives ‘‘because the legislative process ily and some 250 guests: ‘‘No doubt, argu- 1981. AES is a leading global power company interested me and was the kind of chal- ments over the Nixon pardon will continue comprised of competitive generation, dis- lenge I enjoyed . . .’’ for as long as historians relive those tumul- tribution and retail supply businesses in 27 Gerald Ford concluded this inter- tuous days. But I’d be less than human if I countries. The company’s generating assets view—which I recommend to my col- didn’t tell you how profoundly grateful I am include interests in one hundred and sixty- leagues and our staff—with his beliefs for this recognition. The Award Committee six facilities totaling over 58 gigawatts of ca- that during his 29 months as President, has displayed its own brand of courage . . . pacity. AES’s electricity distribution net- But here, courage is contagious. he had steered the U.S. out of a period ‘‘To know John Kennedy, as I did, was to work has over 920,000 km of conductor and of turmoil, making it possible to move associated rights of way and sells over 126,000 understand the true meaning of the word. He gigawatt hours per year to over 17 million from despair to a renewed national understood that courage is not something to end-use customers. In addition, through its unity of purpose and progress. ‘‘I also be gauged in a poll or located in a focus various retail electricity supply businesses, reestablished a working relationship group. No adviser can spin it. No historian the company sells electricity to over 154,000 between the White House and Congress, can back date it. For, in the age old contest end-use customers. AES is dedicated to pro- one that had been ruptured,’’ he notes. between popularity and principle, only those viding electricity worldwide in a socially re- ‘‘All that made an important dif- willing to lose for their convictions are de- serving of posterity’s approval.’’ sponsible way. ference. I consider that to be my great- Mr. Sant chairs the Board of The Summit Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg said the Foundation, and is a Board Member of Mar- est accomplishment as President.’’ award was inspired by her father’s Pulitzer riott International, WWF-International, Re- There being no objection, the mate- Prize winning book, Profiles In Courage sources for the Future, The Energy Founda- rial was ordered to be printed in the (first published in 1955 by Harper & Row) and tion, and The National Symphony. He re- RECORD, as follows: was ‘‘instituted to celebrate his life and be- cently stepped down as Chairman of the [From the New York Times] lief that political courage must be valued and honored. And that Gerald Ford had World Wildlife Fund-US after six years in GERALD R. FORD AT 88: A BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE that capacity and now serves on the Na- proved that politics can be a noble profes- (By Trude B. Feldman) tional Council. sion. . . .’’ Prior to funding AES, Mr. Sant was Direc- On July 14, Gerald R. Ford will celebrate Sen. Kennedy said President Ford had tor of the Mellon Institute’s Energy Produc- his 88th birthday. Having fully recovered ‘‘withstood the heat of controversy and per- tivity Center. During this period he became from a stroke last August, the former presi- severed in his beliefs about what was in our widely known as the author of ‘‘The Least dent says he is now in excellent health— country’s best interest. History has proved Cost Energy Strategy’’—where it was shown alert, active and keeping up with world af- him right. that the cost of conserving energy is usually fairs. ‘‘At a time of national turmoil, our nation much less than producing more fuel. Asked—in a birthday interview—how he was fortunate that he was prepared to take Mr. Sant earlier served as a political ap- feels about turning 88, he says: ‘‘Age doesn’t over the helm of the storm-tossed ship of pointee in the Ford administration and was bother me. I’m not as mobile as I was 25 state. He recognized that the nation had to a key participant in developing early initia- years ago, but I feel fortunate to still have get on with its business and could not, if tives to fashion an energy policy in the US. my zest for life. I have more enthusiasm now there was a continuing effort to prosecute Before entering government service, he was because of the care I take of myself. I follow former President Nixon. So President Ford active in the management or founding of sev- a good diet, I don’t smoke or drink, and I made a tough decision and pardoned him. eral businesses, and taught corporate finance keep busy.’’ ‘‘I was one of those who spoke out against at the Stanford University Graduate School In association with the American Enter- his action. But time has a way of clarifying of Business. He received a B.S. from Brigham prise Institute, one of Washington, D.C.’s things, and now we see that President Ford Young University and an MBA with Distinc- leading think tanks, Mr. Ford established— was right.’’ tion from the Harvard Graduate School of in 1982—the AEI World Forum which he hosts General Alexander M. Haig Jr., Mr. Nixon’s Business Administration. annually in Beaver Creek, Colorado. White House Chief of Staff, concurs. ‘‘The He is a co-author ‘‘Creating Abundance— The forum is a gathering of former and passage of time has once again favored the America’s Least-Cost Energy Strategy’’ by current international world leaders, business truth and Gerald Ford has rightfully McGraw Hill and numerous articles and pub- and financial executives and government of- emerged as one of our nation’s most coura- lications on energy conservation. ficials who discuss political and economic geous leaders,’’ he told me in an interview, issues. adding: f This year—in late June—the participants ‘‘Despite the risks, President Ford per- BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE TO included Valery Giscard d’Estaing, former formed a singular and selfless act of courage. PRESIDENT GERALD R. FORD President of France; former Vice President Almost 30 years have passed since ‘‘Water- and Premier of the Republic of China, Chan gate’’ and the scurrilous accusation that Mr. LUGAR. Madam President, Lien; and Richard Cheney, Vice President of then Vice President Ford had made or con- former Congressman, Vice President the United States, who was a former Chief of sidered a secret deal with President Nixon—