Word: ervin
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...activities of an organization called "Democrats for McGovern," located in West Berlin. The information, gathered by aides of Watergate Committee Member Senator Lowell P. Weicker during an independent investigation of the Nixon Administration's national-security activities, has been turned over to Watergate Committee Chairman Sam Ervin's Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights and to the Senate Armed Services Committee. It is probable that Ervin's subcommittee will look into violations of American citizens' rights abroad...
Kurland, a distinguished author (Politics, the Constitution, and the Warren Court) and a consultant to the Ervin committee, will focus on the questions of separation of powers, Executive privilege and impeachment. He sees the crisis as the "apex of the transfer of power away from our elected representatives to the Executive Branch of Government." When asked if his course would be taped, Kurland said...
...conservative reputation, or his reputation as one of Washington's top trial lawyers, or both, Wilson got a telephone call one day last April from John Ehrlichman, whom he had never met before. That same day Wilson was also retained by H.R. Haldeman. Thus he appeared before the Ervin committee as counsel for both men-or, as he once let slip, for "John Haldeman...
...fact, during his labors before the Ervin committee, he had a dual celebration: the 50th anniversary of his admission to the bar and his 72nd birthday. A law graduate of George Washington University, Wilson spent his 30s as a U.S. prosecutor and won such a reputation as a litigator that in 1941, soon after returning to private practice, he was retained by the Swiss firm Interhandel to look after its interest in its U.S. subsidiary, General Aniline & Film. In 1942 GAF was confiscated by the U.S. Government because Interhandel was believed to be a front for the German cartel...
Hide he did not. No other private lawyer has been so combative in the hearings. "He speaks up," said an admiring Washington attorney. "He's had Ervin off on a lot of tangents and byways." A lawyer who is "thorough to an annoying fault," according to one of his partners, Wilson confidently barged into the fray-to sidetrack a questioner, to give his client a chance to gather his resources, and usually in the real hope of making a point or barring the question. Sample exchange after Ervin asked himself a rhetorical question...