Word: ervin
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...says the venerable Senator Samuel James Ervin of North Carolina, denouncing the Nixon Administration with characteristic senatorial rhetoric. What makes it more than rhetoric is that Sam Ervin is the widely respected chairman of the Senate Government Operations Committee and the Judiciary Subcommittees on Separation of Powers and Constitutional Rights. As such, he is the man the Senate is counting on to lead its struggle against what is increasingly seen as presidential encroachment on congressional powers, including impounding of funds and government by decree. "Sam Ervin," says Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, "is the man to watch in this Congress...
...Indeed, Ervin seems to be commanding almost every battlefront against the Administration. Last week alone...
...Ervin's bill to require congressional approval of any new Director and Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget was overwhelmingly passed on the Senate floor...
...Senate voted 77 to 0 to set up a special committee, chaired by Ervin, to investigate all aspects of the Watergate bugging case, including questions of White House ties to the conspirators. Says Ervin: "There will be no witch hunt [but] I am going to get to the bottom of this thing...
...Ervin, at 76, rather than more obvious leaders like Senators Mike Mansfield or Ted Kennedy emerged as the enfant terrible of Congress? In part, because of his seniority: his 19 years in the Senate have brought him the appropriate chairmanships. But beyond this, Ervin is known as one of the most eminent constitutionalists in the Senate, a man of such personal prestige, of such judicial temperament, that he cannot easily be attacked. Kennedy, for instance, whose subcommittee staff has been working long and hard on the Watergate investigation, realizes his own vulnerability and has hoped all along that Ervin would...