Word: ervin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...particularly damaged by the transcripts was Assistant Attorney General Henry Petersen. Nixon picked him to run the investigation into the cover-up in April 1973 when Richard Kleindienst removed himself from the case because of his close ties to John Mitchell. Petersen's gravel-voiced testimony before the Ervin committee last summer was considered by many to be a virtuoso display of candor and integrity. The transcripts, however, reveal that Petersen was callously manipulated by the President, who even went so far as to boast to Ehrlichman and Ziegler, "I've got Petersen on a short leash...
...early in April when Herbert Kalmbach, the President's personal attorney, testified before the committee. Kalmbach was not exactly a willing witness; he refused to divulge details of conversations he had held with Rebozo because of their lawyer-client relationship. But Lenzner, with the approval of Chairman Sam Ervin, pressured him into changing his mind...
...healthy result of the Watergate scandal has been a reappraisal of what the proper constitutional balance between the Executive and Legislative branches of Government should be. Part of the Ervin Committee's report, which is due to be released soon, will concern redressing the current balance, which has shifted too far in favor of the presidency. Moving ahead of the committee, New York Republican Senator Jacob K. Javits, in a speech last week before the liberal Republican Ripon Society, recommended seven measures that would permit Congress to "reestablish itself as a truly coordinate branch of the United States Government...
...Ervin Jr., the North Carolina Democrat who became somewhat of a folk hero during last summer's Senate Watergate hearings, took this stand against busing on April 10, 1973, during special Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on a proposed constitutional amendment on busing...
Dick Cavett. Ninety minutes of Sen. Sam Ervin (D-N.C.) Ch. 5, 12:30 a.m. 1 1/2 hours...