Word: ervin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...called the police. Reporters Bob Woodward, an Ivy Leaguer, and Carl Bernstein, a dropout from the University of Maryland, enlarged that slender thread into the picture of corruption. Judge John Sirica, the Italian American and old welterweight, applied common sense and created a new sense of justice. Senator Sam Ervin, with a little help from St. Paul and Shakespeare, provided the best civics lesson in 50 years...
...impact on the Judiciary Committee proceedings- was hardly limited to anonymous threats. Four cameras and a panoply of klieg lights transformed the committee room into a blazing national platform. Yet the big eye's presence did not cause any histrionics. The contrast with last summer's Ervin-committee hearings was sharp. Speeches and statements were shorter; committee members are used to competing for time on the House floor with 434 colleagues, while Senators can afford a more leisurely pace. The TV cameras often appeared to be the raison d'etre of the Senate Watergate grillings...
After paying tribute to his colleagues and to the committee staff, Ervin was presented with a 10-lb. sausage by Committee Counsel Samuel Dash, in recognition of White House Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler's denunciation of the committee's special report on Rebozo as "warmed-over baloney." Then Sam Ervin delivered a short speech, quoting right and left from his favorite writings, and it was over...
Rebozo admitted to the committee that the $4,562.38 had originated from campaign funds, but maintained that it was a proper reimbursement to him of money he had spent on campaign costs. The Ervin committee saw the transaction differently. "This complex four-stage process of payment for this gift," declared its report, "concealed the fact that the funds originated from contributions to the 1968 campaign and were ultimately used by Rebozo on behalf of President Nixon...
...closing ceremony last week, a reporter asked Sam Ervin why the committee had failed to state in its report any conclusions about the responsibility for the Watergate scandal. Ervin replied that it was possible to draw a picture of a horse in two ways. You could draw the picture of a horse, with a very good likeness. Or you could draw the picture and write under it, "This is a horse." Well, said Sam Ervin, "we just drew the picture...