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...executive privilege, to protect himself and his administration rather than the nation at large. He could constitutionally bind and gag his present and former associates in cases of security, but he will find it difficult to silence his critics and impossible to silence the Senate investigating committee of Sam Ervin...
...Watergate grand jury. White House officials could refuse to answer questions on the grounds of executive privilege, although it is inconceivable that any question of national security could enter into an investigation of the illegal "third-rate" bugging of Democratic National Headquarters. But it is even more inconceivable that Ervin and his committee, before a national television audience, will be satisfied if Ehrlichman, Haldeman and the entire cast of Watergate characters obstruct the committee's attempt to bring out the facts about the bugging. When Ervin -- and the country -- demands to know if the Presidency was used for espionage purposes...
Uncle Sam Ervin...
...would like to propose that any future depictions of Uncle Sam be made in the image of Uncle Sam Ervin [April...
...complete reversal by Nixon amounted to almost total capitulation to Ervin's insistence that no presidential aide is entitled to blanket immunity from congressional inquiry into wrongdoing. But the matter could become academic, at least for a while. Ervin conceded that if key witnesses...