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...Senate's self-appointed constitutional watchdog, Ervin, for all of his courtliness and mirth, approaches his investigation with a relentless seriousness. He told TIME'S Neil MacNeil last week: "As. an American who loves his country and venerates the institution of the presidency, I indulge the presumption that the President has no connection with the Watergate affair or its coverup. Candor compels me to say that the President is making it very difficult to entertain this presumption if he withholds from the committee the records and the tapes which I believe contain information which is relevant to establish...
...TIME, June 18), the new policy had its first competitive test last week. On NBC, John Chancellor gave a summary and some mild commentary on Richard Nixon's address on the economy, as did Frank Reynolds and Tom Jarriel on ABC. The Public Broadcasting Service let Correspondent Robert MacNeil discuss the message with two experts...
COVER Subject Sam Ervin is unlike most of the politicians that Correspondent Neil MacNeil has covered during his 24 years in Washington. "He has never been a publicity hound," says MacNeil; "he has never run a mimeograph to shoot off a daily barrage of press releases, hoping to get his name in print. Yet as a raconteur and one of Washington's hardest workers, he has always been well known to anyone dealing regularly with the Senate." Now, as chairman of the select Senate committee investigating the Watergate affair, Ervin is becoming equally familiar to the public. For this...
...MacNeil first began considering a cover story on Ervin last fall. "It was plain then that a constitutional crisis was brewing," he says. "As one of the constitutional experts in Congress, Ervin seemed the man most likely to do battle with the Administration's attempts to expand its authority." As our story points out, Ervin, with his customary vigor, is doing just that...
LEADERS. Despite the new spirit shown by Mansfield and Albert, the leadership in both chambers was widely criticized as too conciliatory or gentlemanly to be effective. What is required, argued Correspondent MacNeil, is some of "the arrogance" of past taskmasters who ran Congress with heavy hands. Jones suggested that there is perhaps no greater congressional need than to strengthen the leaders of each party within Congress and thus pin down responsibility. He cited Woodrow Wilson's dictum that "somebody must be trusted, in order that when things go wrong it may be quite plain who should be punished...