Word: ervin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...officials met with a dozen leaders of the three co-ops to discuss price supports. Later, the President held a follow-up meeting with Hardin, Connally and George Shultz, then director of the Office of Management and Budget, to discuss the milkmen's arguments. That evening, according to Ervin committee testimony, Connally met yet again with the co-op executives at a private home in Washington to go over the results of the busy day's events. According to a committee source, there is "multiple testimony" that Connally took part in a discussion Unking the dairy industry...
...Arizona: Let's not jump up and say impeach. Let's not jump up and say resign. Right now there is no evidence the President has done anything wrong. I think the only way he has out now would be to show up some morning at the Ervin committee and say, "Here I am, Sam. What do you want to know...
While Saxbe is scathingly critical of Nixon's handling of the Watergate investigation, his views are not especially at variance with those of the White House. He has criticized the Ervin committee hearings for putting on an unnecessarily flamboyant show and charged that Cox "was more interested in a lawsuit" than in pursuing the Watergate investigation. "There are certain affairs of the President that neither Congress nor the courts can invade," says Saxbe. "There is a power to impeach the President, but it was not contemplated in the Constitution that the President can be horsed around the courts...
...bitter side effects of Watergate has been to reinforce people's distrust of all politicians. That distrust was hardly dampened last week when charges of corruption were raised against-of all people-one of the investigators. Edward J. Gurney, Republican member of the Ervin committee, acknowledged in a terse statement that the Justice Department was looking into allegations that he had received more than $300,000 in unreported contributions in 1971 and 1972, mostly from builders seeking influence with the Federal Housing Administration...
Quick to hop on the Watergate wagon, Columbia Records corralled the Senate select committee chairman to make a record for them called Senator Sam at Home. Result: a coup running over with homilies. Bloviating through 77 years of memories, Sam Ervin laces his bourbon with saccharin and recites his favorite lyrics-Grow Tall My Son and Through the Years. Moving to sterner stuff (our national anthem, the First Amendment and Rudyard Kipling's ode to the governing class: "If you can keep your head when all about you/ Are losing theirs"), Uncle Sam then opines that the King James...