Word: ervin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...right to be left along is among the most basic of man's rights former U.S. Senator Sam Ervin said last night before a crowd of over 500 at Mills Kresge Auditorium...
Government intervention into an individual's privacy is unwarranted unless it is needed in the course of proper government business, or unless an individual's private acts infringe upon the rights of another individual, Ervin said...
...entire cast of Watergate characters, none had posed so serenely above the mess as Maurice Stans. Although he had headed Richard Nixon's campaign-finance committee in 1972, Stans blithely professed no knowledge of the illegal Watergate activities that the money had financed, which led Chairman Sam Ervin of the Senate Watergate Committee to ask in frustration: "Can you explain to a simple-minded man like me the mental processes by which you can determine how much money ought to be spent for a particular project unless you know what the project is?" Replied Stans coolly: "Mr. Chairman, there...
Remember Sam Ervin's "Nicodemus Come Down in the Night" and Bernard Barker's "I Wasn't There to Think," (one of my personal favorites...
...entire Watergate nexus of corruption. It contains no narrative, just straight excerpting from the available testimony; for the most part the excerpts stick to the highlights. There are even some funny lines: Bernard Barkers paraphrases Tennyson's "Ours is Not to Question Why..." somber-voiced James McCord replies to Ervin's question about what Mitchell called him. "Before or after the Break-in?" Folkways also includes one Nixon speech, his Watergate Address of April...