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...hearings resumed last week, even Senator Sam Ervin's investigating panel seemed to exhibit a certain distraction and ennui. To top it all off, after three days the major television networks, which had pooled their efforts on the live telecasts, voted 2 to 1 (CBS in the minority) to stop their gavel-to-gavel live coverage. Their explanation is that the hearings, now shifting into campaign ethics and funding, are becoming less newsworthy...
...Richard Nixon, the lull in the Watergate tempest is over. This week Senator Sam Ervin's committee reopens its public hearings, and by next week the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington will rule on whether the President must surrender his secret Watergate tapes to a federal grand jury. In addition, more indictments are expected shortly in connection with both the Watergate break-in and the burglary at the office of the psychiatrist of Pentagon Papers Defendant Daniel Ellsberg. Said one presidential adviser: "It's like sitting here waiting for 24,000 volts. You know...
Originally the committee had planned to question former White House Special Counsel Charles Colson, who was implicated in Watergate by previous witnesses. But Colson may soon be indicted on charges of helping to plan the Ellsberg psychiatrist's breakin, and last week he declined to cooperate with the Ervin committee. During a two-hour private session with committee members and staffers, Colson's attorney, David Shapiro, explained that his client could testify only if granted immunity from prosecution...
Berger, the author of Impeachment: The Constitutional Problems and of an upcoming book on executive privilege, will speak at the round-table discussion organized by Senators Harold Hughes (D.-Iowa) and Ervin (D.-N.C.) along with Abram Chayes '43, professor of Law, and 12 other prominent legal scholars...
Watergate is America's Dreyfus Affair, a symptom of moral decay. During the Ervin hearings, Nixon aide after Nixon aide demonstrated to all the world the distance that has developed between the cause of the president of the United States and the cause of justice...