Although Herb Block frequently castigated President Richard Nixon and his Republican administration, in this cartoon he reminded the 91st Congress--led by Democrats--that they, too, had considerable skeletons in their closet. In the cartoon's foreground, Block derided the seniority system. The cartoonist later railed: “This is a system not for operating a representative government but for strangling it. It often makes fiefdoms of Congressional committees--fiefdoms in which the people's representatives are subject to the whims of chairmen who have little responsibility to anybody.”