Word: sams
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hell appointed this bloated bigot Sam Ervin to be judge and prosecutor and jury? What a sickening travesty of justice; what a farcical "search for truth"; what a frightening reminder of the Joe McCarthy days...
...week the subpoenas and presidential refusals arced across Washington like shellfire. Watergate, for so long a kind of inchoate guerrilla war, had developed clear and momentous battle lines. Richard Nixon took his stand behind a barricade of Executive privilege. Neither Sam Ervin's Senate committee nor Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox would get the key White House tapes and documents they were demanding for their investigations of Watergate. At issue, the President declared, is "the independence of the three branches of our Government ... the very heart of our constitutional system." Sam Ervin had a different definition of the question: "Whether...
...simply has something to hide. For Nixon, this is the bitterest part of the struggle; no matter what high principles he invokes, the separation of powers argument will seem to many only a self-serving excuse to hide the truth. In one astonishingly disingenuous passage in a letter to Sam Ervin, Nixon wrote: "I personally listened to a number of [the tapes]. The tapes are entirely consistent with what I know to be the truth. However, as in any verbatim recording of informal conversations, they contain comments that persons with different perspectives and motivations would inevitably interpret in different ways...
...business." He presented the committee's two subpoenas. Garment laboriously read the documents, then passed them to Wright, who also read them. Finally, as Edmisten and the others shook hands to go, Wright asked: "You don't happen to have one of those paperback Constitutions that Sam Ervin uses all the time, do you?" He was referring to the blue-covered Constitutions that Ervin passes out to constituents. Edmisten pulled a copy-out of his hip pocket and handed it over. Said Wright jokingly: "It's been alleged we need one around here...
Casablanca. Bogart. Why the Brattle brings this crowdpleaser back season in and season out I don't want to know. Why people pack the house I don't like, except on especially good days when nothing can phase me. Only then will the audience stock responses--"Play it, Sam", howls--rub off as some sort of togetherness high that is very very funny. On normal days the movie takes the most self-indulgent of campy spirits to be endured. Brattle...