Word: ervin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nixon seemed to have one advantage in the tumultuous tapes controversy. Surprisingly, he had been able, only hours before the appeals-court order became effective, to persuade two of the Senate's most prestigious Watergate investigators, Senate Select Committee Chairman Sam Ervin and the committee's Republican vice chairman, Howard Baker, to go along with his scheme. But both men insisted that their concurrence was narrowly based on the committee's interest in getting any evidence at all of what the tapes contain and was meant to be totally unrelated to the court struggle...
Before long, the Ervin committee will write its final report, with unknown consequences for the President. Agnew's departure, however spectacular, does not close the curtain on the Nixon Administration's painful drama, or that of the nation's, whose trust in its Government has been assaulted once again...
Enticing Puff. Marshall Frady, for example, trailed Senator Sam Ervin back home to North Carolina. New Times headlines Frady's piece HANG...
DOWN YOUR HEAD, SAM ERVIN, and adds the enticing puff: "How the chairman of the Watergate Committee was lured, not by a White House ploy but by his own ego, into buffoonery." The trivial incident merely involves Ervin being snookered by show-biz types into making à commercial recording of his-favorite quotations and anecdotes à la the late Senator Everett Dirksen. Whatever the wisdom of Ervin's performance, it hardly seems to rate the breathless treatment New Times gives...
...rise of a country lawyer to the Senate. Praising Author Baker's savor of his fellow Tennesseans, his publisher, Doubleday & Co., is encouraging him to include a relationship that links the freshman politico with a venerable Senator who sounds remarkably like Baker's own colleague, Senator Sam Ervin...