Word: sam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Other characters in the Watergate drama, most notably the President around whom the whole affair revolved, played major roles. Yet Nixon, to his own detriment, never took charge of the scandal, continually reacting to events rather than shaping them. The remarkable Senator Sam Ervin, who rose spectacularly as a national folk hero in chairing the historic Senate Watergate hearings, employed literary allusions and unabashed outrage to effectively belittle the many evasive and amoral Nixon men who came before...
Ervin had long promised his wife that he would quit, and his decision was a Christmas present for "Miss Margaret." As Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield once remarked: "Sam sticks pretty close to his wife and the Constitution. He's married to both." Ervin's love affair with the Constitution has been lifelong, ardent, unflagging-and finally requited. In an hour of constitutional peril, the Senate turned to Ervin to chair the Watergate investigating committee...
...sunsets back home in Morganton, N.C., and do some fishing. It is more likely that he will continue to peruse his well-thumbed copy of the Constitution and keep a baleful eye on any people he suspects are trying to subvert it. Those are the fish that Senator Sam likes to catch...
...GARRETT AND BILLY THE KID. A strange, severe, beautiful Western directed by Sam Peckinpah...
MOST IMPRESSIVE DEBUT: Katharine Hepburn, who poignantly played her first TV role in The Glass Menagerie, and gave an even more varied and captivating performance as herself on the Dick Cavett Show (both ABC). Runner-up: Senator Sam Ervin as that perennial favorite, the shrewd, aw-shucks folk hero...