European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 1, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page to columns the stars and stripes wednesday. July 1.1987 Ellen Goodman Fawn Hall not quite the perfect Secretary it will be ironic if Fawn Hall he Secretary who can  goes Down in history for a s10 million Typo in will be equally ironic if the leading female role in the Iran Contra scandal is Cut to a bit part one night of shredding Bliss and a transposed number on a Swiss Bank account. Hall s two Days in the limelight turned out to be More than a Phi Oil Opportunity articulate and poised she embarrassed those who had lumped her in the Bimbo brigade. Young pretty and crucial she unsettled the men who interrogated her for two Days contradictions and psychologically mixed messages flew around the hearing mom. "1 be Lieve in col North Nanri what he was doing. Had no right to question  she insisted if she was told to alter documents it was not my policy to ask ques  if she was told to shred papers "1 was purely just doing my  and yet Hall also described herself Felt herself As part of the  As a member of the team she worked 12 hours a Day five Days a week without complain. As a team player she snuck documents oui of the office past the Fri hidden in her shirt and her boots. None of the men questioning Hall seemed to Light on the contradiction a Cam Plover and in ques lining by Subic Viem what kind of a game is that they accepted As Normal the fact that Hall blood simultaneously beside and behind her Man. That she had both protected and obeyed him. Perhaps they were even envious. By the end of the testimony i had the sense thai this Young woman was testifying under a second sort of immunity secretarial immunity. The men in that room lawyers and legislators had one thing in common a Secretary. Fawn halt May have entered the hearing room As a sexual fantasy. But she Cal ii As a secretarial fantasy. How often was Hall dubbed he Ideal Secretary How Many Goose bumps did she raise on the arms of male Bosses with her own Job description for the nearly four years thai i worked for it. Col. North my hours were Long and arduous but i found my Job to be most fulfilling. How Many of him dreamed of hav ing someone Tike that facilitate the smooth operation of the  Loyal and smart Loyal and skilled Loyal and articulate Loyal and Beautiful Loyal and Loyal and Loyal. Hall was no oppressed typist waiting for s o clock no Mother anxious Aboul her child care no ambitious woman waiting for the next opening. She took in metre ways than one dictation. She a by Kins feature Syndicate Fonh um1 shared the Ido Lotzof her Boss without expecting the details. She Coni cred herself a team player without having 10 be by right into the decision making huddle. Kemar Tribly Oliver North did t hesitate before he asked her Waller documents. She was his Secretary after All Hargood right Arm. For her part even when she Felt inc any she says i believed in col. North and the was a very solid and very valid reason thai he Mima Mcbeen doing  Isa this everyman s fantasy Secretary everyman s in wife the fantasy Secretary is hard working out  no ambition. The fantasy Secretary 6sn Sec the flaws even the  of her pan. It in t her policy to ask questions. The fantasy cd rotary believes for every interrogator who criticized Hall s disloyalty to the Law there was another who breathed heavily Over her loyalty to the Man. Fawn Hall was 23 when she came to the National Security Council and 27 when she left stuffing documents into her clothes. It s Heady sift to be that close to Power to action to the colonels and generals of the world. Heady to Type words thai May change history. But eventually this particular Secretary was doused with reality. The Boss with the ideals was also in appears the Boss with the bogus traveler s checks. The Patriot May have also been a profiteer. The Boss who walked her protectively to her car late at night involved her in a shredding party. All Good fantasies die hard even the fantasy Secretary. In the hearing room Fawn Hall also Laid i am a grown up an adult and., i can form my own opinions and morals in the end the woman who awed so Many we h her loyalty proved thai she could do More than Type. She told Fqy Washington peal a Tara group George will it s a Hamilton Jefferson debate in miniature serendipity has reared its Lovely head in the supreme court illuminating the continuity of our constitutional life. The close of the court s term this by cent Nial summer there came a Case turned the court s mind like the Needt Jbf a Compass to the kind of question Hal vexed the cons Lillion s framers. In 1982, Congress declared a Haifa percentage of Federal Highway fun should be withheld from Stales thai do lot have a drinking age of 21. Congon was addressing an obvious prob Jln Young people drink and drive whop they drive across slate lines in quest of drink. South Dakota where 9-Ycitalds can drink 1.2 percent  acc idea that Congress action was  with the Constitution s Allocati Firof Powers. South Dakota cited the 21  which repealed prohibition and gave states the Power to regulate alcohol. Now South Dakota rising in righteousness is a stirring sign. But if the stale though in had 3 Chance of winning it has been drinking stuff stronger than near Beer. Justice o Connor dissenting the Only other dissenter was Justice Brenna acknowledged hat Congress May attach conditions to the Xci i of Federal fund. However he did the condition must reasonably related to the purpose of the particular Federal program. And she said the establishment of a National drinking age is not sufficiently related to interstate Highway  surely she was wrong. Safe interstate travel is a goal of the Highway program. Chief Justice Rehnquist. In a Limp opinion for the 7-2 majority skilled the lame interesting issues. He said the withholding of a piddling 5 percent of South Dakota s Highway funds is tolerable. But he added anxiously there might be a financial inducement so coercive Aslo turn a Mere incentive into compulsion. Such hair splitting miniaturized the disputes. Belief he had said Colorado and South Dakota will soon be in compliance with Congress wishes regarding drinking. Only Ohio and Wyoming re main defiant. A cromwellian approach is nerd cd for the two recalcitrant Legislatures. Paratroopers deployed with fixed bayonets along the Walls of the legislative Chambers should  just kidding. But seriously folks in is fun. 200 years into our Experiment to set a continuation of the old debate on the nature of the sovereignty of the Cen trial government re Inqui a was Nghil As far As he went. But his argument lacked vim. The court should have seized he occasion for & thumping affirmation of Hamijet arianism. However before Rehnquist was elevated to the glory of the court before he put aside All Mere 1 political philosophy in favor of constitutional doctrines he was a conservative of the jeffersonian Stripe. He was suspicious of in Centra government and h to for local authority and Stales right. Ours is now a  country with unreasonably an uneasy con science about that it has a Strong Central government As required for an Industrial Continental Republic. Bui the tuning Forks in our minds vibrate most naturally to jeffersonian cadences. These following words from o con nor s dissent she like Rehnquist is from arson Al a Haven of  Are an example of jeffersonian cadences the immense site and Power of he government of the United Stales ought not obscure its fundamental character. Ii remains a Evv pm mini of  Powers yes yes of Coune. But immediately after those words o Connor cited at a source i the thought the Ca of Mccullochh. V1ar\land l8l�. However in is a Hamil Lunian we Sirotin Ivi ural go Toni mint conservatives who applaud the Mcculoch opinion written by Jefferson s great rival. Chief Justice Marshall. In in Marshall firmly established the doctrine of the implied Powers of Congress. Yes Marshall said. Congress has Only enumerated Powers. But Congress is entitled to considerable discretion with re Spect 10 the Means by which the Powers the Constitution Confer arc to be earned into  the Central Golem men s Powers should be interpreted to comport with the Central government s tasks. If the task e.g., promoting Highway safety is legitimate All appropriate Means adapted to that task not explicitly prohibited Art permitted. This Small Case was a timely and deeply satisfying Bicentennial event. The Lisa amendment gives slates the Power to control alcohol. Is illegitimate for Congress to legislate an incentive for the slates to voluntarily abridge  to adj ngbu7 the vocabulary for discussing even Thia minor matter drives us Back deep into t perennial Ihme of our history the Lencioni inherent in our system of limited do pit no. Enumerated and implied pow ers. The prese in of he perennial ii Louv ing to the conservative temperament. Viphu h i pm is Cony continuities