Word: ervin
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TIME has also learned that Senator Ervin had a point in asking Ehrlichman whether the White House had turned to the plumbers because Hoover would not approve a burglary-although Ervin misjudged Hoover's motives. In his earlier years as FBI director, Hoover allowed his agents to conduct such "bag jobs." But in his later years, the savvy bureaucrat was increasingly defensive about his image and considered such illegal acts too risky. If discovered, they would ruin his reputation...
Talking Paper. Attention will undoubtedly shift this week to Nixon's other former close aide, Bob Haldeman, who is scheduled to follow Ehrlichman before the Ervin committee. Haldeman was directly implicated last week by his assistant, Gordon Strachan, a precise, apparently candid witness, who served as Haldeman's liaison with the Nixon re-election committee...
...goodly portion of the nation's lawyers seem to be in considerable anguish over the way the Watergate panel is questioning the witnesses. The letters, calls and telegrams pour in to Committee Chairman Sam Ervin with suggestions for questions, psychological tactics, and denunciations for missing opportunities to bludgeon witnesses to pulp...
...Washington, where there may be more attorneys per square foot than in any other city, the conversations are dominated by legal despair. The lawyers believe Ervin is doing an awful job in crossexamination. Young barristers and law school professors, freshly steeped in their textbook cases, are sure of it and can give you a lecture on how it should have been done...
...wonder if old Sam Ervin from Morganton, N.C., isn't a little wiser than all those kibitzers. Ervin is running an educational forum and not a court, and he knows it. The arguments are rooted in the Constitution, that is true, but now they transcend that. The big issue at this point is what each citizen thinks in his mind and feels in his heart about the President...