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During four-and-a-half hours of testimony in the morning and afternoon, Senator Sam Ervin Jr. (D-N.C.), chairman of the select committee, continually emphasized that most of McCord's testimony involved hearsay evidence--information obtained second hand--which was admissible only to establish McCord's motives for participating in the Watergate conspiracy...
...HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES should immediately form a special committee to investigate the operations of the Executive branch. The committee should work closely with the Senate's Ervin subcommittee, and should concentrate chiefly on the House's responsibility arising from the Watergate scandal. It should also treat the broader question of whether the Executive's attempts to continue the Cambodian bombing and impound appropriated funds are constitutional...
Nixon's entire presidency is now coming under scrutiny and it is appearing in a light clearly unbearable to most Americans. The Ervin subcommittee should help probe the corruption's extent, but what is uncovered may require a radical remedy, and the House of Representatives ought to be formally exploring the possibility events may turn into a necessity...
...which any protection of the men around Nixon?or of the President himself?will be most unlikely. The federal grand jury in Washington, which has been looking into the Watergate case since last summer, will continue to take testimony from all the suspects and from other witnesses. Senator Sam Ervin's Select Committee on Campaign Practices expects to begin televised hearings next week on Watergate and Republican campaign-disruption tactics...
...much indebted to a privately employed night watchman who was on his toes; three District of Columbia policemen who reacted very fast; a posse of persistent journalists; the courageous judge, John Sirica, who reminds us what an independent judiciary means; the looming figure of Senator Sam Ervin, whose impending hearings surely helped loosen various tongues. In short, the American democratic "system," an even grander and more important thing than the presidency, is Still running...