In the age of free agency, anyone can go at any time.
Not one act of free agency was left to Michael.
In general they are considered to be a sort of federal agency.
By law, no more than three members of the agency can be from the same political party.
Also, a new policy of the agency was to get involved in the community.
In those days, Congress asked few questions of the agency.
He said much more is expected of the agency than in the past.
That, he said, could sometimes be different from what the top of the agency was saying.
He became a full member of the agency in 1988.
But the issue of free agency remains the most difficult one.