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Senate Styles. As the hearings continue, the distinctive styles of the Senators will become as familiar as those of celebrated TV performers. After stumbling over a difficult word ("incredulity") in a written statement, Sam Ervin at times seemed like a drawling humbler, but he also proved to be a shrewd chairman capable of suddenly shifting into the most penetrating questions...
Odle was needled by a typical Ervin question when he tried to explain that his office had a number of paper shredders, mainly to dispose of potentially revealing scraps of paper. Asked Ervin: "Was he [Liddy] the man ordinarily charged with the duty of disposing of wastepaper?" As the crowded Senate Caucus Room filled with more laughter, Odle conceded that it now appears that Liddy was in charge of intelligence operations for the Nixon committee and that Liddy had shredded documents related to intelligence activities a few hours after the Watergate burglary was discovered...
...What the Ervin committee hones to develop is a chain of evidence in which witnesses-generally following the ascending order of official authority-will corroborate the charges of those who testified before them. Thus much of McCord's hearsay testimony may be verified by the next witness, Caulfield...
Liddy, who is McCord's chief source of information that the Watergate bugging was plotted by Administration high-ups, will probably remain silent, as he has since the start. That could cost Liddy still another contempt sentence, this one from the Ervin committee...
According to the Charlotte (N.C.) Observer, Haldeman tried to get North Carolina Republicans to "dig up" any information that might discredit Senator Ervin before his committee investigating Watergate opened its hearings. Haldeman's approach, as confirmed by TIME, was made in phone calls to Harry Dent, a former Special Counsel to the President. Dent passed the Haldeman suggestion on to Frank Rouse, North Carolina's Republican chairman. Both Dent and Rouse considered Ervin's integrity unassailable. They gave Haldeman no help...