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...warm summer day, the committee assembled for a closing ceremony in the marbled Old Senate Caucus Room. At the long table sat the Senators and key staff members, like a senior class on graduation day. Only four of the committee's seven members were present: Chairman Sam Ervin, Lowell P. Weicker Jr., Joseph M. Montoya and Daniel K. Inouye. Vice Chairman Howard H. Baker Jr. was home in Tennessee; Herman E. Talmadge was busy elsewhere; and Edward J. Gurney was beset by troubles of his own (see story page...
Attention focused naturally on Sam Ervin, now serving the last of his 20 years in the Senate. Through some ten weeks of televised hearings last summer, he had become, at the end of his career, a folk hero, a landmark of integrity. As TIME Correspondent Stanley Cloud observed last week: "Sam Ervin hadn't been discovered as a result of Watergate; he had simply been there waiting, as though his entire life had been a preparation for this final service...
After paying tribute to his colleagues and to the committee staff, Ervin was presented with a 10-lb. sausage by Committee Counsel Samuel Dash, in recognition of White House Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler's denunciation of the committee's special report on Rebozo as "warmed-over baloney." Then Sam Ervin delivered a short speech, quoting right and left from his favorite writings, and it was over...
Rebozo admitted to the committee that the $4,562.38 had originated from campaign funds, but maintained that it was a proper reimbursement to him of money he had spent on campaign costs. The Ervin committee saw the transaction differently. "This complex four-stage process of payment for this gift," declared its report, "concealed the fact that the funds originated from contributions to the 1968 campaign and were ultimately used by Rebozo on behalf of President Nixon...
...closing ceremony last week, a reporter asked Sam Ervin why the committee had failed to state in its report any conclusions about the responsibility for the Watergate scandal. Ervin replied that it was possible to draw a picture of a horse in two ways. You could draw the picture of a horse, with a very good likeness. Or you could draw the picture and write under it, "This is a horse." Well, said Sam Ervin, "we just drew the picture...