Word: ervin
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Though the defense was able to catch Dean in several inconsistencies, the young lawyer on the whole maintained his poise just as he had at Sam Ervin's committee hearings before the television cameras. On the basis of his performance last week, Dean passed his first major test as a witness under fire in a courtroom. He is expected to testify this month at the perjury trial of Dwight Chapin, the former appointments secretary for the President, and at the September trial of the seven former Nixon aides, including Mitchell, charged with covering up the Watergate burglary. In addition...
...first acts of his successor, George Mehren, 60, onetime Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, was to try to persuade Nixon associates to get the Justice Department to drop the antitrust suit. In an answer to a questionnaire from Senator Sam Ervin's Watergate committee, former AMPI Secretary Dwight I. Morris claimed to have evidence that Mehren offered Nixon Attorney Herbert W. Kalmbach another $300,000 in campaign funds if the suit were dropped. According to Morris, Kalmbach refused the offer because of the controversy raging over the Administration's antitrust settlement with...
Senator Sam Ervin, co-author of the bill, proudly calls it "one of the most important pieces of legislation considered during my service in the Senate." Republican Senator Charles Percy, another coauthor, claims that it is "one of the historic turning points in the evolution of our institutions." The bill has been hailed by many liberal Senators, notably Maine's Edmund Muskie and California's Alan Cranston, as well as by such conservatives as Virginia's Harry Byrd Jr. and Tennessee's William Brock...
With this kind of broad agreement, the Senate last week passed by the remarkable vote of 80 to 0 a bill that may well turn out to be as revolutionary as Ervin and Percy claim. It would for the first time in modern history make Congress an active partner with the White House in drawing up the federal budget, instead of merely approving or denying presidential proposals or developing isolated and improvised programs on its own. A similar version of the measure swept through the House last December by a vote of 386 to 23. When the differences are ironed...
Woodward also said yesterday that Post reporting indirectly contributed to the decision of Sen. Sam J. Ervin (D-N.C.) to form the Senate Watergate Committee...