Word: ervin
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...ERVIN thought that Nixon got into trouble because his gang "undertook to nullify the laws of God and the laws...
...resistance set off a frantic last-minute effort to find Ervin and Baker and summon them to the White House. Baker was located at a symposium in Chicago, Ervin at an airport in New Orleans. Both flew immediately to Washington. They were ushered into the Oval Office and urged by Nixon, Haig and Wright to accept the proposal...
...Whenever Ervin asked a question about how the agreement might affect court cases and how Cox felt about it, the conversation was diverted to the Senate committee's problems. Repeatedly one of the White House participants pleaded: "The President needs a strong hand in order to deal effectively with the Middle East crisis." Ervin, a longtime hawk in military matters, and Baker, an ideological ally of the President's, decided to go along...
...dismissal of the Ehrlichman indictment. That failed, but he is ready this week with formal requests for some of the much sought presidential tapes, access to Ehrlichman's own White House files and access to the computers that have aided Special Watergate Prosecutor Archibald Cox and the Ervin committee in their investigations...
...picked by the board of directors after a divisive five-month manhunt. He is a compromise candidate, who lacks the charisma and political clout of his $110,000-a-year predecessor, Henry Hall Wilson, a well-connected Democrat who returned home to North Carolina last June to challenge Sam Ervin for his Senate seat in 1974. But Lebeck may be the perfect...