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...Ervin: Because I can understand the English language. It is my mother tongue...
Even with the admission of tapes, no one will ever master the entire vocabulary or thought processes of the Nixon Administration. But tantalizing glimpses are possible through the aperture of the Ervin hearings. By now, of course, the Nixonian cadre has turned a few phrases to bromides, notably the sci-fi sounds: "At that point in time," and, "In that time frame." Still, these clichés are excellent indicators of the Administration's unwritten laws of language: 1) never use a word when a sentence will do; 2) obscure, don't clarify; 3) Humpty Dumpty was right...
...activities of an organization called "Democrats for McGovern," located in West Berlin. The information, gathered by aides of Watergate Committee Member Senator Lowell P. Weicker during an independent investigation of the Nixon Administration's national-security activities, has been turned over to Watergate Committee Chairman Sam Ervin's Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights and to the Senate Armed Services Committee. It is probable that Ervin's subcommittee will look into violations of American citizens' rights abroad...
Kurland, a distinguished author (Politics, the Constitution, and the Warren Court) and a consultant to the Ervin committee, will focus on the questions of separation of powers, Executive privilege and impeachment. He sees the crisis as the "apex of the transfer of power away from our elected representatives to the Executive Branch of Government." When asked if his course would be taped, Kurland said...
...conservative reputation, or his reputation as one of Washington's top trial lawyers, or both, Wilson got a telephone call one day last April from John Ehrlichman, whom he had never met before. That same day Wilson was also retained by H.R. Haldeman. Thus he appeared before the Ervin committee as counsel for both men-or, as he once let slip, for "John Haldeman...