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Nixon agreed to meet with Ervin-but he pointedly excluded Baker, a reflection of the President's irritation with the Tennessean. The insult raised some eyebrows in Washington, but it did serve to establish once and for all Republican Baker's independence of the White House. The stage, at any rate, was set for Ervin to meet Nixon, after the President leaves the hospital. Ervin said, however, that the committee would not take the issue to court if the President were to refuse to honor a subpoena for the documents. Rather, he explained, the committee would "simply allow...
...Mitchell's account of his conversations with the President was correct, it raised troubling questions about Nixon's lack of inquisitiveness. The testimony led a highly skeptical committee chairman Sam J. Ervin Jr. to declare: "Well, if the cat hadn't any more curiosity than that, it would still be enjoying its nine lives-all of them." Three highly damaging interpretations of that lack of presidential curiosity seemed possible: 1) Nixon did not ask Mitchell because he too shared the Mitchell rationale that he would be better protected politically by a lack of knowledge, and thus...
...that meeting was "We don't need this. I am tired of hearing it. Out! Let's not discuss it any further." Mitchell implied that his then assistant, Frederick LaRue, the only other person present, would confirm his story. Yet LaRue, in a talk with the Ervin committee staff, quoted Mitchell as putting the matter aside, saying there was "no need to make a decision at this time...
Lame Answer. Chairman Ervin sharply disagreed with Mitchell's prediction of dire consequences had Nixon been told the truth and suggested that even if the President had "lowered the boom," his decisiveness would have impressed voters, and "he would have made his election more sure than ever." That was mere speculation, and in a way beside the point. The point was that Mitchell put the re-election of one man, however deserving, above...
...Kleindienst's Senate confirmation hearings to succeed Mitchell as Attorney General in March 1972. On that occasion Mitchell had testified that he had no political duties while serving as Attorney General. This assertion seemed to be contradicted by the testimony of many witnesses, including Mitchell himself, before the Ervin committee...