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...Ervin Committee bears the expenses Sterns has incurred in travelling to Washington, but he said that he was losing valuable time by being away from school...
...said that the Senators on the Ervin Committee were "getting bored" with the inquiry and were "reluctant to put me on," and that he expects to be back in Cambridge by early afternoon...
...more Agnew talked, the more skeptical the Democrats became. As they saw it, Agnew's arguments did not add up. The Vice President was claiming that a House committee controlled by Democrats would be fairer than a court ? yet until lately he had been arguing that Senator Sam Ervin's Watergate committee had been unfairly hounding the White House. Agnew was attacking the leaks of the prosecutors ? yet the example of Ervin's committee showed that leaks could also spring freely on the Hill...
...reduction in his provisional 30-year sentence from Federal Judge John J. Sirica. Apparently unable to follow much of the committee testimony while in prison, he often seemed to know less about the origins of the Watergate wiretapping than any attentive TV follower of Senator Sam Ervin's committee...
With Buchanan's testimony, the Ervin hearings moved into their examination of dirty political tricks. But the manner in which he verbally manhandled the Senators discouraged some staff members, who feel that this phase may not prove fruitful. "We could close up shop and write our report right now," declared one staff member. Yet, whether the hearings are televised or not, to end them after exploring only the Watergate crisis would amount to a committee copout...