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Senator Sam Ervin's Watergate committee has promised to expose all the secrets of the scandal, but while the various accusations and defenses reverberated through the top levels of Washington last week, the Ervin committee lumbered along in pursuit of lesser...
...John J. Caulfield, an ex-cop who had carried an offer of Executive clemency to convicted Watergate Raider James W. McCord Jr., described how he had been "injected into this scandal," how he had been forced to choose between obeying the law and obeying the White House, and Sam Ervin remarked: "The greatest conflicts in this world are when we try to choose between two loyalties...
Tell the Truth. Last week Dean met secretly with Sam Dash, the Ervin committee's chief counsel. Afterward, the committee voted unanimously to guarantee Dean a limited immunity against prosecution for whatever he might tell in the televised hearings. The Justice Department can-and intends to-delay that request for 30 days, but Judge John Sirica will have to approve it at the end of that period...
...take custody of nine documents that Dean had removed from his White House office and placed in a bank vault before he was fired. Though the White House demanded the return of the papers-whose nature has not been disclosed-Sirica said that he would keep them. Both the Ervin committee and federal prosecutors will be given copies...
...specialist in labor legislation and was a member of John F. Kennedy's brain trust in the campaign against Richard Nixon. Kennedy appointed him Solicitor General in 1961; he resigned in 1965 to return to Harvard. Among his law-school pupils in the '40s: Elliot Richardson and Ervin Committee Counsel Samuel Dash...