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...hearings. David Beckwith, himself a lawyer, spends almost five hours a day sitting virtually at each witness's left hand, watching and taking notes on the testimony (almost 6,000 pages so far). Former Saigon Bureau Chief Stanley Cloud concentrates primarily on the members and staff of the Ervin committee. Senior Congressional Correspondent Neil MacNeil amasses political reactions to Watergate and also serves as our constitutional expert...
Washington News Editor John Stacks coordinates the various assignments, exploiting the bureau's ability to pool contacts and expertise. Late one night, for example, MacNeil learned that someone at the White House was trying to link Senator Lowell Weicker, an Ervin committee member, with illegal campaign contributions. Sandy Smith pursued the story from there until he discovered which White House people were allegedly responsible for the attempted character assassination. Then Stanley Cloud picked it up and checked the matter with Weicker. Within 24 hours, TIME (July 9) had the full story of the White House plan...
...hell appointed this bloated bigot Sam Ervin to be judge and prosecutor and jury? What a sickening travesty of justice; what a farcical "search for truth"; what a frightening reminder of the Joe McCarthy days...
...eight defendants Wednesday night sent what they termed an "emergency plea" to Senator Sam J. Ervin (D.-N.C.) charging that Arnow "chose to ignore what could only be called Watergate...
Arnow said he was willing to make available transcripts of the hearing to the Ervin Committee...