Word: ervin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ratify. Though the document clearly outlaws only an intentional effort to destroy an entire ethnic or racial group, Southern Democrats and isolationists worried that such charges might be brought unfairly against Americans. Key opponents to the convention in Washington were the A.B.A. and North Carolina Senator Sam J. Ervin Jr. With Ervin retired and the A.B.A. having reversed course, supporters of the convention now hope the Senate will at last ratify the anti-genocide pact...
...clearly appalled by the U.S. devastation of Southeast Asia; but foot-ball-helmeted B.D. was given plenty of space to rationalize. "A protective reaction strike is never having to say you're sorry." The strip was unmistakably anti-Nixon during Watergate, but also took whacks at the Ervin committee: The chair opens up the floor to innuendo and hearsay. In fact, Doonesbury is sometimes so Delphic that adherents of just about any point of view can find aid and comfort in it. For foes of school busing, there was a series in which a white boy in a newly...
...otherwise wise and honorable man has lied about membership in the Communist party. The issues are cast in fifties terms, but the "Profiles in Courage" feeling is universal. The chief attraction lies in a stunning performance by Charles Laughton as Seab Cooley, the archetypal Southern Senator, who, like Sam Ervin, turned out to be a fairly wise man. The climactic scene, when the Senate votes on the nomination, is as exciting as anything that happened during Watergate. Absolutely staggering...
THERE ARE PLENTY of the latter, most of them on the Ervin committee. Howard Baker demands repeatedly of witnesses, "What did the President know, and when did he know it?" at exactly those moments when the other questioners are attempting to establish the circumstantial framework that will provide the answer. Joseph Montoya extracts "moral advice for the young people of this nation...from every felon who testified," and Lowell Weicker, with mind-deadening consistency explodes in a fit of moral outrage every afternoon at four o'clock, in time to dominate the evening news. Silbert and his team worried less...
According to Higgins there were at least two tragedies in the affair precipitated by the over-zealousness of Sirica, the Ervin committee and journalists. The case against John Connally hinged on the testimony of one man, Jake Jacobsen, and would never have been brought to court in normal times. Even more regrettable was the conviction for perjury of Attorney General Kleindienst, who actually threatened to resign when asked by Nixon to interfere with the ITT case, but denied to Sen Edward Kennedy's committee that such a request had ever been made...