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...impasse between Ervin and Nixon seems to offer no avenue toward compromise. Nixon has said that he "would welcome" a court test on his de cree of Executive privilege, adding...
...Ervin has the broad support of not only the Senate's Democratic liberals but also its Democratic conservatives and many Republicans. Nixon's secretive handling of the Watergate affair has dismayed his strongest backers. Republican office holders feel that they are being needlessly tarred by Watergate and want the real culprits exposed. Also, many Congressmen disdain such intimate Nixon aides as John Ehrlichman, H.R. Haldeman and their assistants, who are often regarded by veteran politicians as arrogant, inexperienced and selfishly protective of the President. Noting that some members of the White House staff seem to be enmeshed...
...Watergate investigation, Sam Ervin is not trying to find out what White House aides may have told the President about some proper aspect of their official duties. He wants to know whether they took part in political ac tivities that may have been illegal or im proper or whether they know who did so. Yet Nixon has tried to ban any of his aides, even those no longer on his staff, from testifying before any con gressional committee. Last week the Washington Post revealed that Nixon's chief counsel, John W. Dean III, had cited this privilege to avoid...
Wrong. The President will allow his staff members to respond to written questions from Ervin's committee. "But you cannot put a piece of paper under oath and cross-examine it," Ervin pro tested. Later, in a show of compromise, Nixon said that he would let some aides be questioned personally, but not un der oath and not in public. Yet Ervin in sists that, if the truth about Watergate is to emerge, the public - and not just a few Senators - has the right to "observe the demeanor of the witnesses and to judge their credibility...
Shortly before graduation day in 1917, Ervin enlisted as an infantry private in World War I. He was wounded in action twice in France and won the Silver Star for "conspicuous gallantry" and the Distinguished Service Cross...