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Republican Senator Edward Gurney, who has considerable sympathy for the President's position, wrote Ervin last week, suggesting that the committee immediately leapfrog to the central question-how involved, if at all, is Nixon? "To continue the present leisurely pace opens us up to severe criticism," he argued. "Both the President and the nation deserve better than this." Special Prosecutor Cox is also unhappy with the Senate hearings, but for other reasons. Last week he told the committee's chief counsel, Samuel Dash, that the televised proceedings might easily prejudice the outcome of prosecutions arising from the grand...
Block by Block. But Ervin is not likely to be swayed. On the contrary, Ehrlichman's and Haldeman's testimony last week would argue for the careful, block-by-block Ervin approach. Ervin and a majority of his committee members feel that this week's scheduled witnesses may provide additional highly important information...
Unique Position. Senator Sam Ervin's Watergate committee has already agreed to request use immunity for ten witnesses, but the Dean situation is without any real precedent. No White House official has ever been asked to testify against other White House officials. Equally without precedent is the three-way tug-of-war between the prosecutors, the congressional investigators and the witness himself...
...game. Otherwise, it would be several weeks before major figures like John Dean, H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman were heard from. Responding to this restiveness, the committee moved up the resumption of hearings from June 12 to June 5 ("February 5th at 10 p.m." was what the weary Sam Ervin actually said...
...assurance may be justified, for Dean is the only major Watergate witness who is both able and willing to tell a lot. He has been using that position to bargain for his own safety from prosecution, an effort in which he has earned at least some support. Senator Sam Ervin's committee has requested limited immunity for Dean so that he can testify. But the Justice Department so far has refused to go along, on the grounds that it may want to prosecute him later. Last week in an interview, Dean made a persuasive case for being heard without...