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...entire cast of Watergate characters, none had posed so serenely above the mess as Maurice Stans. Although he had headed Richard Nixon's campaign-finance committee in 1972, Stans blithely professed no knowledge of the illegal Watergate activities that the money had financed, which led Chairman Sam Ervin of the Senate Watergate Committee to ask in frustration: "Can you explain to a simple-minded man like me the mental processes by which you can determine how much money ought to be spent for a particular project unless you know what the project is?" Replied Stans coolly: "Mr. Chairman, there...
Remember Sam Ervin's "Nicodemus Come Down in the Night" and Bernard Barker's "I Wasn't There to Think," (one of my personal favorites...
...entire Watergate nexus of corruption. It contains no narrative, just straight excerpting from the available testimony; for the most part the excerpts stick to the highlights. There are even some funny lines: Bernard Barkers paraphrases Tennyson's "Ours is Not to Question Why..." somber-voiced James McCord replies to Ervin's question about what Mitchell called him. "Before or after the Break-in?" Folkways also includes one Nixon speech, his Watergate Address of April...
...York's Eyewitness News, made the show because, says Executive Producer Dennis Doty, he should "wear well in the morning." Indeed he has so far been unflaggingly unabrasive. To provide political commentary, the show has enlisted such part-time "AMericans" as Lindsay, former Senator Sam Ervin, former Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Civil Rights Activist Jesse Jackson...
...from the real wall. It was white, and looked like a wall. The best the conceptualists could do was a show by that professional enfant terrible, Les Levine, that featured drawings of five dozen or so Watergate characters, along with a voice on a loudspeaker intoning "June fifth, Sam Ervin, blue-gray suit, dark blue tie, pale blue shirt, gold watch...