Word: ervin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Margaret C. Ervin...
...aware of the awesome power of television to make or break reputations. Back in the kinescope era, Freshman Senator Estes Kefauver starred in a dramatic series of organized- crime hearings; the next year he almost won the 1952 Democratic presidential nomination. The Senate Watergate hearings, of course, transformed Sam Ervin into a national icon and forever linked Howard Baker with the line "What did the President know, and when did he know it?" But the TV cameras can also be cruel; Watergate did little to enhance the political careers of the weaker performers...
...mahogany table in the Senate Caucus Room over which Joe McCarthy glowered at imagined Reds and Bobby Kennedy threw his darts at Jimmy Hoffa and Sam Ervin dispensed his country wisdom to the Watergate bunglers has been dismantled and stored away...
...other History and Literature concentrators giving presentations in Burr Hall were Estelina L. Dallett '87, Edith Ervin '87, Valerie G. Scoon '87, and Takemi Ueno...
...later paid for its arrogance in public disapproval. In Watergate's early days the story was kept alive mainly by the valiant reporting of the Washington Post. But Nixon was finally toppled by two institutions more powerful than the press -- Judge John Sirica's federal court and Senator Sam Ervin's Senate committee...