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...after another, previously uncommitted members of the U.S. Senate fell into line for ratification of the nuclear test ban treaty-Illinois Democrat Paul Douglas, North Carolina Democrats Everett Jordan and Sam Ervin, Nevada Democrat Alan Bible, Iowa Republican Jack Miller, Colorado Republican Peter Dominick, Nebraska Republican Roman Hruska and South Carolina Democrat Olin Johnston...
...Ervin: Mr. Attorney General, would you summarize in a brief way why the founding fathers decided to have a written Constitution in the U.S. rather than an unwritten Constitution as in England...
...Ervin: Aren't you asking us to approve these bills because we're having troubled times and demonstrations...
...Ervin: Would you deny that the demonstrations influenced your decision to offer this legislation...
There were not enough hours for Ervin to complete his joust with Bobby. This week they will meet again across the committee table. For how long? Well, smiled Ervin, "it depends on his answers to some of my questions. I haven't got started yet. I've just got through the preamble. Since we're going to be here until Christmas Eve or thereabouts, we can go about this matter with a certain amount of calmness and slowness"-he paused an instant for effect-"and deliberate speed...