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...crimes committed across the globe in the name of America and the support the Nixon government gives to reactionary regimes cannot escape our attention and our anger. Nor can the efforts of people from all parts of the world to win their freedom fail to stir our hearts. Sam Ervin and Archibald Cox became, with some justification, heroes in the past year. But others involved in the struggle for freedom achieved a heroism that is much greater and more touching than any produced by Watergate...
Senator Sam Ervin: "Well, then, justice as administered by the Department of Justice is not blind...
...Ervin's questions at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing suggested that investigators headed by Petersen could have solved the Watergate case two years ago, if they had not shown undue deference to top White House and political associates of President Nixon. Petersen admitted: "While I recognize that everybody is equal before the law, I also recognize that not everybody can be treated equally, and that applies to Senators and Congressmen and Government officials-not because of the person but because of the office...
...Ervin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Orson Welles...
...Colson had always been a shadowy figure, a man feared, disliked and little known even by fellow powermongers in the White House. As the Watergate case broke open, he managed to remain in the background. Unlike other former Administration officials, he was never compelled to testify at the televised Ervin hearings. His conversations with President Nixon were conspicuously absent from the transcripts made public by the White House...