Word: ervin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Weicker protested that it was "grossly unfair" that Haldeman could hear the tapes when other prospective criminal defendants could not. Complained Democratic Senator Herman Talmadge: "Why would a private citizen be more entitled to listen to those tapes than a Senate committee of the United States Congress?" Chairman Sam Ervin, noting that Nixon had conceded that the tapes were subject to different interpretations, said he would be "scrupulous in considering whether I should accept Mr. Haldeman's interpretation...
...charge. But before ITT Lobbyist Dita Beard, the author of the memo, could give testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee, she was spirited off to Colorado-reportedly by the White House "plumbers"-and was said to be too ill to be interviewed at the time. Last week the Ervin committee gained possession of a White House memorandum that seemed to shed new light on the ITT case...
...memo was sent by Charles W. Colson, then a White House special counsel, to H.R. Haldeman, then the President's chief of staff, on March 30, 1972. It turned up last week when the Ervin committee subpoenaed a secretary of Colson's and asked her to bring along her files. The purpose of the Colson memo was to urge the Administration to withdraw its nomination of Richard Kleindienst as Attorney General-a nomination that was subsequently approved by the Senate. Colson's point at the time was that the Senate investigation of Kleindienst might conceivably turn...
...Ervin: Because I can understand the English language. It is my mother tongue...
Even with the admission of tapes, no one will ever master the entire vocabulary or thought processes of the Nixon Administration. But tantalizing glimpses are possible through the aperture of the Ervin hearings. By now, of course, the Nixonian cadre has turned a few phrases to bromides, notably the sci-fi sounds: "At that point in time," and, "In that time frame." Still, these clichés are excellent indicators of the Administration's unwritten laws of language: 1) never use a word when a sentence will do; 2) obscure, don't clarify; 3) Humpty Dumpty was right...