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...certainly familiar, but the actors had changed. Instead of Senator Sam Ervin in the chair of the ornate Caucus Room in the Old Senate Office Building, where the nation had seen and heard Watergate unfold, there sat Senator J. William Fulbright, tan and lean from his vacation. Flanking Fulbright were the members of the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee...
Within a half hour, his face now ruddier than usual, Erviri returned to his Senate Caucus Room microphone to announce that he had been the victim of a hoax. Ervin had just talked to a man "who really assured me he was the real Secretary Shultz, and he informed me that he had had no conversation with me today." Protested the embarrassed Ervin: "It is just an awful thing for a very trusting soul like me to find that there are human beings?if you can call them such?who would perpetrate a hoax like this...
...whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.' " A pause, and then the caucus room erupted into sustained applause...
Caught by the piercing television cameras in the Senate Caucus Room, the two John Mitchells seemed too much of a contrast to be reconcilable...
Backstage for the Ervin committee means the other side of the street. While the hearings take place in the Senate's colonnaded Caucus Room, across First Street the staff labors in quarters that resemble a hastily established World War II recruiting office. A huge workroom has been thrown together in the ground-floor auditorium of the Dirksen Office Building, with makeshift cubicles, stenographers' desks and photocopying machines scattered about. Newsmen and everyone else unconnected with the committee are barred from the room except for specific purposes...