Word: ervin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...voice rising in anger, his eyes boring coldly into the face of a defiant witness, Senator Sam Ervin assailed the notion that White House-inspired dirty tricks employed in the 1972 presidential campaign were commonplace practices in U.S. politics. Regaining some of their lost momentum, even while losing full television coverage for the first time, Ervin's Watergate committee hearings hammered home a key point: there was a humorless, malicious quality in many of these covert activities that carried them well beyond the category of mere pranks...
...normal. He also offered the odd excuse that his intent was to improve politics by showing Democrats, whom he accused of unspecified similar acts, that they would not escape retribution. "Do you believe that the way to clean up politics is to make it more filthy?" asked an infuriated Ervin. At one point, Benz snapped at Ervin: "Where were you in 1960 when it was accused that an election was stolen? Where were you then?" Replied Ervin: "I was right here in the U.S. and I never heard of a campaign being stolen on the credible testimony of any individual...
...Ervin Committee bears the expenses Sterns has incurred in travelling to Washington, but he said that he was losing valuable time by being away from school...
...said that the Senators on the Ervin Committee were "getting bored" with the inquiry and were "reluctant to put me on," and that he expects to be back in Cambridge by early afternoon...
With Buchanan's testimony, the Ervin hearings moved into their examination of dirty political tricks. But the manner in which he verbally manhandled the Senators discouraged some staff members, who feel that this phase may not prove fruitful. "We could close up shop and write our report right now," declared one staff member. Yet, whether the hearings are televised or not, to end them after exploring only the Watergate crisis would amount to a committee copout...