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...late in a long day, and Connecticut Senator Lowell P. Weicker Jr., the junior man on the Ervin committee, was just beginning his second go-round with Star Witness Dean. Weicker, the committee's rebellious Republican and sole representative from the northern half of the country, proved once more to have little flair for interrogation-in fact, he virtually gave up any pretense of questioning Dean shortly after he had started his address...
...began by reciting a veritable litany of "illegal, unconstitutional and gross" acts performed by the Executive branch since the beginning of the 1972 campaign. Then he came to his main point: that the Administration had done its level best to subvert the Ervin committee hearings as recently as this April, even while announcing publicly its intention of cooperating fully...
...most bizarrely captivating documents that John W. Dean III turned over to the Ervin committee last week were the ones he took from the White House file labeled "Opponents' List and Political Enemies Project." These lists of varying length, compiled in the summer of 1971, contained the names of as many as 200 politicians, journalists, labor officials, entertainers, scholars and businessmen and Democratic campaign contributors whom the White House staff considered to be the Administration's prime domestic enemies...
...extremely intelligent. He has so much common sense. He's become a sort of folk hero." Could it be that the lady praising Senator Sam Ervin was Novelist Mary McCarthy, whose tongue is generally sharp enough to crack ice at 30 paces? Indeed...
...Washington to cover the Watergate hearings for the London Observer, Mary became such a fan of Ervin's that she asked for a little talk with him. How had the Senator got his legal talent? she inquired. "He told me that he comes from a long line of lawyers from North Carolina-and one who practiced away." Where was that...