Word: ervin
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...Ervin walks through the Capitol these days, tourists poke each other delightedly: "Look, it's him." Last week the Senator had his four grandchildren in town to attend the hearings. One evening he took them out to dinner at a restaurant on Capitol Hill and everywhere along the way he was stopped by people who wanted to shake his hand. A fundamentally shy man, Ervin is both pleased and embarrassed by all the attention. Said twelve-year-old Bobby Ervin, establishing that a talent for home-grown simile runs in the family...
...endeared himself to everyone, of course. Critical letters have come in. Some Republican Senators are snarling about him from the background. Critics complain that Ervin is more out to get Nixon than the truth. But his image of constitutional integrity, his country humor and deftly self-mocking senatorial grandiloquence have turned him into a major American personality...
...daily grind of hearings under bright television lights is hard even for younger members of the committee. Hawaii's Daniel Inouye, 48, feels fatigued at the end of the day and suffers from severe headaches. Ervin seems to be surviving well. He husbands his strength. Ervin and his wife of 49 years, Margaret, still live as quietly as ever in their two-bedroom apartment a few hundred yards from the Capitol. The Ervins have been forced to get an unlisted phone number. The Senator still goes to sleep at his customary 11 p.m. He gets...
...Ervin makes no elaborate preparations for the hearings. He deliberately does not read the staff briefs on the witnesses' closed-door testimony. "I find it's better to hear the witness himself," says Ervin. Before the hearings, Chief Counsel Sam Dash does consult with the Senator on the witnesses and briefs him generally on their testimony. Unlike many committee chairmen, Ervin does not like to question witnesses at an early point in their public testimony. Instead, he waits for his colleagues to run through their questions. "When you're last," says Ervin, "you can segregate the wheat...
...seven members prepare their lines of questioning more or less independently. Says Ervin: "It has worked out beyond my fondest expectations...