Word: ervin
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Tennessee's Howard Baker and North Carolina's Sam Ervin were determined to pierce the shell of Executive privilege with which Nixon sought to protect the papers. Letters were exchanged. First, Nixon, on July 6, flatly refused to let the committee see any White House documents. He also stated that he would not agree to testify before the committee...
Last week, during an executive session, the committee agreed on Baker's plan to draft a letter to the President requesting a meeting to resolve the question of the documents. Then Ervin put through a call to the President, who at that moment was trying to ignore his pneumonia. "We really need those documents," Ervin told Nixon. "And we need to discuss the matter with you." Ervin went on to explain that documents dealing with politics or alleged illegal conduct could not be covered by Executive privilege. "What I really want," said Ervin, "is for me and Howard Baker...
...cessations of conflict, not even all reconciliations, should be welcomed. As Nixon, fresh from his attacks on American democracy, goes on hobnobbing with Brezhnev and sending arms to Papadopoulos, we might be moved, like Senator Ervin, to quote Shakespeare. It's time to fear, Pericles remarked, when tyrants seem to kiss...
...expanded bipartisan effort to convince the President to publicly discuss any part he may have played in the Watergate scandal has taken several forms. Many Republicans and Democrats have united in recommending that the president disclose his knowledge of the affair at a press conference, before the Ervin Committee and by release of all White House files concerning the scandal...
When Mitchell appears before the Ervin Committee tomorrow he is expected to answer charges made in earlier testimony that he participated in the planning and cover-up of the June 17, 1972 Watergate break-in. Mitchell has repeatedly denied any role in the affair. Mitchell's attorneys have said that their client will not implicate the president in the scandal...