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Since returning from a well-deserved one-month recess in September, Sam Ervin's Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities has never regained the earlier momentum of its investigation into the Watergate mess and other scandals. Last week, on the day that it had been scheduled to begin examining publicly one of several pieces of important unfinished business, the seven-member committee suddenly voted to suspend its hearings indefinitely-until January at the earliest. The decision helped underscore the factionalism and frustration that has lately shaken the committee's once solid and purposeful ranks...
...described as "a panic." Dorsen pleaded that he was simply not prepared to begin a public hearing. After reviewing his work, Dash agreed, and told the staff on Monday that he would recommend a postponement to committee members the next day. What happened at that Tuesday meeting in Sam Ervin's office revealed the divergent courses, both personal and political, of a group that Ervin once boasted had always taken unanimous votes...
...lacked the sense of direction to succeed. Marshall Frady, for example, is a skillful and sympathetic veteran Southern journalist: His book Wallace is a wonderfully revealing portrait of George Wallace and the Alabama that produced him. New Times sent Frady to North Carolina to hang around with Sam Ervin, and Frady wrote a brief, pointless description of the senator, and of a recording company producing a record of Sam reading old folk tales and the lyrics to popular songs...
...officials met with a dozen leaders of the three co-ops to discuss price supports. Later, the President held a follow-up meeting with Hardin, Connally and George Shultz, then director of the Office of Management and Budget, to discuss the milkmen's arguments. That evening, according to Ervin committee testimony, Connally met yet again with the co-op executives at a private home in Washington to go over the results of the busy day's events. According to a committee source, there is "multiple testimony" that Connally took part in a discussion Unking the dairy industry...
...Arizona: Let's not jump up and say impeach. Let's not jump up and say resign. Right now there is no evidence the President has done anything wrong. I think the only way he has out now would be to show up some morning at the Ervin committee and say, "Here I am, Sam. What do you want to know...