Date: May 23, 2006 2:03:45 AM PDT
Subject: [ctrl] Drapes removed
Drapes removed from Justice Department statue
WASHINGTON (AP) - With barely a word about it, workers at the Justice
Department Friday removed the blue drapes that have famously covered two
scantily clad statues for the past 3 1/2 years.
Attorney General John Ashcroft spoke in front of the uncovered statues
in early 2002.
By Joe Marquette, AP
Spirit of Justice, with her one breast exposed and her arms raised, and
the bare-chested male Majesty of Law basked in the late afternoon light
of Justice's ceremonial Great Hall.
The drapes, installed in 2002 at a cost of $8,000, allowed then-Attorney
General John Ashcroft to speak in the Great Hall without fear of a breast
showing up behind him in television or newspaper pictures. They also
provoked jokes about and criticism of the deeply religious Ashcroft.
The 12-foot, 6-inch aluminum statues were installed shortly after the
building opened in the 1930s.
With a change in leadership at Justice, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales
faced the question: Would they stay or would they go?
He regularly deflected the question, saying he had weightier issues
before him.
Paul Corts, the assistant attorney general for administration,
recommended the drapes be removed and Gonzales signed off on it,
spokesman Kevin Madden said, while refusing to allow The Associated Press
to photograph the statues Friday.
In the past, snagging a photo of the attorney general in front of the
statues has been somewhat of a sport for photographers.
When former Attorney General Edwin Meese released a report on pornography
in the 1980s, photographers dived to the floor to capture the image of
him raising the report in the air, with the partially nude female statue
behind him.
The first attorney general to use the blue drapery was Republican Richard
Thornburgh, attorney general under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George
H.W. Bush. He had the drapery put up only for a few occasions when he was
appearing in the Great Hall, rather than permanently installed as it was
under Ashcroft.
Most news conferences now are held in a state-of-the-art conference room,
although the Great Hall still hosts speeches and other special events.
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