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With jowls jiggling and eyebrows all but airborne, North Carolina's retiring Democratic Senator Sam Ervin could not resist going out on a quote. As the Senate Watergate committee gathered in the Old Senate Caucus Room for its final news conference, Ervin summed up the meaning of it all with the help of liberal sayings from the Scriptures and the classics, including a ripely solemn phrase from Rudyard Kipling: "For the sin they do by two and two they must...
...guarding against future Watergates, Ervin said that he knew of no better guide than a selection from a verse by an all-but-forgotten American poet named Josiah Gilbert Holland (1819-81). Senator Sam may well have been the only man in the United States who could recall the lines he intoned for a spellbound crowd of newsmen, Senate aides and tourists...
Baker admits that there are no "conclusions" to be drawn from his report on the basis of the evidence he has been able to gather. After reading the report, Senator Sam Ervin, chairman of the Watergate committee, said that he had learned nothing new about the CIA role...
While testifying before the Ervin committee last summer, Jeb Stuart Magruder mentioned that the Committee for the Re-Election of the President had paid $20,000 to Author-Columnist Victor Lasky in 1972. Amid the Watergate quakes, this disclosure hardly caused a tremor, but it did rattle Lauren Soth, editorial-page editor of the Des Moines Register and Tribune. He alerted the National Conference of Editorial Writers that the 100 papers subscribing to Lasky's weekly column (syndicated by the North American Newspaper Alliance) had been uninformed about Lasky's financial connection with C.R.P...
Lowell P. Welcker Jr., 43, "the bull in the Watergate shop," was a politically inconspicuous Republican Senator from Connecticut until he gained renown as a sharp questioner and independent investigator in the Ervin committee hearings. Moderately wealthy and Yale-educated, Weicker was elected to Congress in 1968 as an antiwar conservative, two years later squeaked into the Senate when state Democrats split their vote. Recent polls show that by combining a pro-Administration voting