Word: ervin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been banished by Nixon's departure. Theologians criticized the manner in which Ford linked his decision to prayers and "the laws of God." Similarly, in a typical riposte, Senator Sam Ervin noted that Nixon had not been required to admit his guilt in return for the pardon, and added: "The pardon power vested in the President exceeds that of the Almighty, who apparently cannot pardon a sinner unless the sinner first repents" (see TIME ESSAY page...
...effective fact-finding, Congress has no peer." Further, a congressional committee would be wholly independent of Ford, which the President might welcome. Adds Constitutional Scholar Philip Kurland of the University of Chicago: "Depending on the committee's makeup and its financing, it could be very effective. Sam Ervin [who is retiring as a Senator] could be hired as counsel." There is a satisfying Shakespearean symmetry to the whimsical thought that the man responsible for many of the early Watergate chapters might get a chance to write the last one as well. In any event, someone must do it before...
...more devastating blow comes on July 16. Former White House Aide Alexander Butterfield tells the Watergate committee that Nixon secretly taped his own conversations. Why Nixon allowed his participation in the cover-up to be recorded is one of the affair's greatest mysteries. Cox and Ervin request that Nixon turn over key tapes. On July 23, he rejects the requests on the ground of Executive privilege. Ervin and Cox issue subpoenas...
...revelations about high-level involvement in the "illegal entry" began to surface in the press, and later in the spring presidential aide John W. Dean III broke ranks and began to spill the beans to federal prosecutors. Dean, watched by millions on nationwide television, appeared before Sam Ervin's Senate Watergate Committee and told how Nixon had learned of the cover-up even before election day and how Nixon seemed pleased with Dean's efforts to keep White House involvement in the break-in quiet...
...Regarding the verse Sam Ervin quoted before the news conference: God, give us Men! [July 22]. The poem might have had more significance if it had been paraphrased to include the female half of the population. As it is, if the call for people of strong minds and great hearts is limited to men alone, the pickings will be slim indeed...