Word: sam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This turnover of tapes, White House aides revealed, meant that the earlier offer to provide summaries of presidential tapes through Stennis to the Senate Watergate committee was dead. Senator Sam Ervin, who had come to realize that he had been lured into accepting the plan by a presidential plea to end the controversy because of the Middle East crisis, had been trying to get out of the plan and was not displeased...
...this second version is the one Nixon is going to stick with, the White House is going to have a hard time explaining how Nixon could offer to give Archibald Cox '34 and Sam Ervin summaries of the tapes without telling them that two of the tapes didn't exist...
...SAM ERVIN thought that Nixon got into trouble because his gang "undertook to nullify the laws of God and the laws...
...compromising an issue as at dramatizing it. Partisan of big defense that he is, he has worked behind the scenes to scale down Pentagon budget requests so that they would be acceptable to the Senate. Though he is adamant about maintaining U.S. forces in Europe, he joined Senator Sam Nunn in introducing an amendment to the Defense Appropriation Bill that would require European nations to share the cost of the troop commitment; the amendment was passed. He and his staff are huddling with both the White House and Soviet diplomats to try to work out a compromise on the trade...
...picked by the board of directors after a divisive five-month manhunt. He is a compromise candidate, who lacks the charisma and political clout of his $110,000-a-year predecessor, Henry Hall Wilson, a well-connected Democrat who returned home to North Carolina last June to challenge Sam Ervin for his Senate seat in 1974. But Lebeck may be the perfect...