Word: ervin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Some of Ervin's associates contended that the committee's vice chairman, Senator Howard Baker, had helped mislead...
...chairman. Baker discussed the plan with Nixon's aides for an hour before Ervin agreed to it under presidential pressure, and Baker clearly had a better understanding of its larger impact on Cox and the criminal cases. Rums Edmisten, deputy counsel to the Ervin committee, felt that the White House had taken advantage of Ervin's "good faith." Said Edmisten: "He's always operated that way; he assumes everyone else does...
...tossed questions on the Middle East, even on the oil crisis, which he handled confidently at time-consuming length. On a pointed question about the tapes, Nixon insisted that Cox had to be fired because he alone opposed the Stennis compromise, while Nixon, the Attorney General, Senators Ervin and Baker had approved it?wholly ignoring the fact that both Richardson and Ervin had expressed sharp reservations about the plan in the form that was so suddenly announced by Nixon...
Much of the Ervin committee testimony is used as the factual basis for a highly readable chronology, but without tedious reliance on long quotations. The writers hold to a minimum all of those cluttering qualifications that blurred the news reports as the affair originally unfolded. The crafty evasions of John Ehrlichman, the astounding forgetfulness of Bob Haldeman, the dogged denials of John Mitchell are generally tucked between parentheses. The authors clearly consider them nearly irrelevant and feel that the truth might be better served by not reading the parenthetical matter-as indeed it would...
...final chapter, picking up fragments of testimony and Ervin committee detail not covered in the earlier narrative, is rushed and superficial. Gambling, the authors even wrote that the conspiracy trial of John Mitchell and Maurice Stans opened in New York City; in fact it was postponed. Watergate is an unfinished story. This book, however, bears brisk witness to an important fact: it is far too early to forget or forgive. · Ed Magnuson