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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that was only the first of what looked like several clear contradictions between Mitchell's previous and present sworn testimony. It was on the last day of his hearings that Counsel Dash, who had questioned Mitchell rather gently on the opening day, displayed his most cutting interrogation so far in the hearings. Just as Mitchell must have thought that the rough quizzing was all behind him, Dash in rapid-fire order raised four apparent Mitchell falsehoods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE HEARINGS: Mitchell: What Nixon Doesn't Know... | 7/23/1973 | See Source »

...agent that he had no knowledge of his own about the Watergate break-in-again contradicting what he has told the Ervin committee. Mitchell contended last week that the topic had never come up in this telephone interview and that the FBI records "are absolutely wrong" in showing, as Dash contended, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE HEARINGS: Mitchell: What Nixon Doesn't Know... | 7/23/1973 | See Source »

...seven members of the Senate Select Committee on Campaign Activities are the permanent panelists of the country's most engrossing daytime show. But Chief Counsel Samuel Dash, Minority Counsel Fred Thompson and the unseen staff members working for them off-camera are the producers, directors, stage managers and prop men without whom the spectacle would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Backstage with the Ervin Panel | 7/23/1973 | See Source »

...correlating testimony, investigating leads, feeding questions to the Senators before the cameras and generally keeping the hearings running along smoothly. The staff consists of 15 lawyers and 6 investigators, as well as secretaries, stenographers and messengers. Most of them were hired by and are ultimately responsible to Chief Counsel Dash, a criminal lawyer turned professor who was picked by Ervin to be chief counsel. Early on, Dash divided the committee's franchise into three main areas of investigation: the Watergate break-in and its coverup, the other dirty campaign tricks of 1972 and illegal campaign funding. Accordingly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Backstage with the Ervin Panel | 7/23/1973 | See Source »

...time has been consumed in identifying and screening potential witnesses. Although only 20 witnesses have appeared before the committee in the televised public hearings thus far, more than 100 others have been questioned informally or under oath behind closed doors, usually in an auditorium office or in Dash's or Thompson's office. The Senators rarely sit in on these preliminary sessions, either because of the press of other Senate business or because they know that a summary of what has been learned will be distributed to them later. Dash, 48, takes the lead in such questioning, with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Backstage with the Ervin Panel | 7/23/1973 | See Source »

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