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...date was June 4, 1973, the setting a closed session of Senator Sam Ervin's Watergate Committee. G. Gordon Liddy was scheduled to testify before newsmen and TV cameras. But first he had to be sworn in for preliminary quizzing, and Ervin drawled the routine question: "Do you solemnly swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help you God?" Liddy's frank answer to the committee...
...Ervin J. Halvorson Sioux Falls...
There are, of course, many statesmen who have served in political office into old age. Sen. Jacob K. Javits (R-N.Y.) and Sam Ervin from North Carolina have performed effectively and inspiringly for years. But neither was president. There are 100 senators, and if one should become incapacitated in office, Congressional affairs would not slow down noticeably. But there is only one president...
...able to turn the hearings to his advantage. Letters poured into the senator's office encouraging him to run for president. The dimpled photogenic Baker, who exchanged backwoods lawyer logic and Southern wit with the parade of Nixon appointees and committee chairman Sam Ervin, gained a following that he has not yet lost...
Because of the prompt evacuation, the death toll was low: only nine people were known to have died. But many survivors had hair-raising close calls. Ervin Nordmann rushed ahead of the storm to board up his beach house at Gulf Shores, only to be forced to spend the night there when his car would not start. After the howling winds moved on, Nordmann discovered that his house was one of only three still standing out of the 40 that once lined the beach...