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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Regarding the verse Sam Ervin quoted before the news conference: God, give us Men! [July 22]. The poem might have had more significance if it had been paraphrased to include the female half of the population. As it is, if the call for people of strong minds and great hearts is limited to men alone, the pickings will be slim indeed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 12, 1974 | 8/12/1974 | See Source »

...Nixon Republican Representatives, Sam Steiger of Arizona and Charles S. Gubser of California, suggested that the President ask for a pro forma vote for impeachment in the House and a speedy trial in the Senate. That would enable him to avoid a damaging televised debate in the House. It would also keep House Republicans from having to pass judgment on their President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IMPEACHMENT: Nixon: The Odds on Survival Shorten | 8/12/1974 | See Source »

...called the police. Reporters Bob Woodward, an Ivy Leaguer, and Carl Bernstein, a dropout from the University of Maryland, enlarged that slender thread into the picture of corruption. Judge John Sirica, the Italian American and old welterweight, applied common sense and created a new sense of justice. Senator Sam Ervin, with a little help from St. Paul and Shakespeare, provided the best civics lesson in 50 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: A Summer Week in Washington | 8/5/1974 | See Source »

...paying tribute to his colleagues and to the committee staff, Ervin was presented with a 10-lb. sausage by Committee Counsel Samuel Dash, in recognition of White House Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler's denunciation of the committee's special report on Rebozo as "warmed-over baloney." Then Sam Ervin delivered a short speech, quoting right and left from his favorite writings, and it was over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Ervin Committee's Last Hurrah | 7/22/1974 | See Source »

...closing ceremony last week, a reporter asked Sam Ervin why the committee had failed to state in its report any conclusions about the responsibility for the Watergate scandal. Ervin replied that it was possible to draw a picture of a horse in two ways. You could draw the picture of a horse, with a very good likeness. Or you could draw the picture and write under it, "This is a horse." Well, said Sam Ervin, "we just drew the picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Ervin Committee's Last Hurrah | 7/22/1974 | See Source »

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