Word: ervin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Senator Sam Ervin's Watergate committee has so far spent $1.5 million. The committee's staff now numbers 63, including 17 full-time attorneys and six investigators...
Watergate has some all but incalculable costs. Ervin and the six other Senators on his committee (each of whom earns $42,500), plus key members of their staffs, have been devoting much of their time to the affair. Several congressional committees have been investigating the President's taxes, the financing of his houses and other aspects of the scandal. Grand juries in New York, Los Angeles, Houston and Orlando have looked into Watergate matters. Dozens of employees of the FBI, the Justice Department, the Internal Revenue Service and the General Accounting Office have been drawn into the vortex...
...weeks ago, Senator Howard Baker of Tennessee, Republican vice chairman of the Ervin committee, learned that the CIA's offices until recently were equipped with a tape-recording system similar to the one that was in the White House until last summer. Since there were known to have been meetings or telephone calls between the White House "plumbers" and CIA personnel, it occurred to Baker that he might be able to get tape recordings of these conversations from the agency's files. When he asked about the tapes, however, he was told that they had all been destroyed...
...hard line was taken up by Presidential Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler, who knocked down any possibility that Nixon might meet with Senator Sam Ervin's Watergate committee, as it requested last week-for the third time. Ziegler indicated that the President may be planning to defy the House Judiciary Committee in its impeachment inquiry by not voluntarily turning over White House documents. The press secretary also applied a new gag on White House officials who have been willing to talk candidly, but anonymously, to reporters. All contacts with the press, he ordered, must be reported...
After the Watergate affair broke open last spring, O'Neill became deeply involved in the House's reaction. He and Albert squelched as "premature" a move by Congressman John Moss to have the House start impeachment hearings after Senator Sam Ervin's committee began its work. O'Neill knew that there were insufficient grounds at that point to justify the step, which could jeopardize future efforts if the evidence came to warrant impeachment...