Word: sams
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With jowls jiggling and eyebrows all but airborne, North Carolina's retiring Democratic Senator Sam Ervin could not resist going out on a quote. As the Senate Watergate committee gathered in the Old Senate Caucus Room for its final news conference, Ervin summed up the meaning of it all with the help of liberal sayings from the Scriptures and the classics, including a ripely solemn phrase from Rudyard Kipling: "For the sin they do by two and two they must...
...guarding against future Watergates, Ervin said that he knew of no better guide than a selection from a verse by an all-but-forgotten American poet named Josiah Gilbert Holland (1819-81). Senator Sam may well have been the only man in the United States who could recall the lines he intoned for a spellbound crowd of newsmen, Senate aides and tourists...
...warm summer day, the committee assembled for a closing ceremony in the marbled Old Senate Caucus Room. At the long table sat the Senators and key staff members, like a senior class on graduation day. Only four of the committee's seven members were present: Chairman Sam Ervin, Lowell P. Weicker Jr., Joseph M. Montoya and Daniel K. Inouye. Vice Chairman Howard H. Baker Jr. was home in Tennessee; Herman E. Talmadge was busy elsewhere; and Edward J. Gurney was beset by troubles of his own (see story page...
Attention focused naturally on Sam Ervin, now serving the last of his 20 years in the Senate. Through some ten weeks of televised hearings last summer, he had become, at the end of his career, a folk hero, a landmark of integrity. As TIME Correspondent Stanley Cloud observed last week: "Sam Ervin hadn't been discovered as a result of Watergate; he had simply been there waiting, as though his entire life had been a preparation for this final service...
...volleys have made Rather, who has covered the White House for CBS on and off since 1964, a nationally recognized combatant in the cold war between the President and the press. Rather has a nervy knack for eliciting newsmaking answers from Presidents and other potentates. Texas-born, educated at Sam Houston State College, Rather joined CBS in 1962, covered racial strife in the South and the Kennedy assassination in Dallas before being sent to the White House and later to Viet Nam. He has won Emmy Awards for his Watergate reporting and coverage of the George Wallace shooting...