Word: ervin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Alexander P. Butterfield, 48, a former Air Force colonel and F-111 pilot who joined President Richard Nixon's staff as an aide in 1969. In July 1973, Butterfield gave Watergate an entirely new dimension by disclosing the existence of the presidential tapes to members of Senator Sam Ervin's committee and the world. By that time, Butterfield had been head of the FAA for four months, a job he got as a reward for his efficient service in the White House (he was never brushed by Watergate), and was already struggling with the organizational problems that...
...Woodward, Carl Bernstein, John Sirica, Sam Ervin, Archibald Cox, Leon Jaworski, Peter Rodino--two months ago, they too probably thought that ending Nixon's public career was the best thing they ever did. But now there are rumblings of another Nixon resurrection, as improbable as his climb from the humiliating loss to Brown in 1962 to the presidency in 1968. Most of the noise seems to be coming from San Clemente, but it bears monitoring, given Nixon's uncanny ability to worm his way back into the public's good graces after suffering through devastating scandals...
Possible Leaks. Its chances of passage are rated better than even, because of the storm over the CIA and because the bill was referred to reform-minded Sam Ervin's Government Operations Committee. But the bill may yet be defeated. Even many members of Congress believe that they should not be entrusted with CIA secrets because of possible leaks. The alternative is to keep Congress uninformed, which seems equally unacceptable...
...bill does not reach the floor this session-a fifth unsuccessful cloture vote would certainly kill it-its proponents feel that it will easily pass early next year, probably in an even stronger form. Five or six opponents of the measure are retiring, including Sam Ervin of North Carolina, who helped lead the filibuster, arguing that the bill "is repugnant to the free-enterprise system." As chairman of the Government Operations Committee, which is responsible for such legislation, Ervin delayed the bill's entry onto the Senate floor. No problem is anticipated with his probable replacement: Connecticut Senator Abraham...
...Watergate record is a sequence of similar bad judgments. It was only a "third-rate burglary." Tell the people nobody in the White House was involved. Blame it on the CIA and national security. That will stop it. The American people will soon tire of the whole affair. Sam Ervin's committee won't last long. Nobody can really understand the complexities of the case. The House will never impeach. The Senate will never convict. At each turn, Nixon's contempt for the intelligence of the citizens he governed and his failure to comprehend their basic decency...