Word: sams
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Tennessee's Howard Baker and North Carolina's Sam Ervin were determined to pierce the shell of Executive privilege with which Nixon sought to protect the papers. Letters were exchanged. First, Nixon, on July 6, flatly refused to let the committee see any White House documents. He also stated that he would not agree to testify before the committee...
...Mitchell's account of his conversations with the President was correct, it raised troubling questions about Nixon's lack of inquisitiveness. The testimony led a highly skeptical committee chairman Sam J. Ervin Jr. to declare: "Well, if the cat hadn't any more curiosity than that, it would still be enjoying its nine lives-all of them." Three highly damaging interpretations of that lack of presidential curiosity seemed possible: 1) Nixon did not ask Mitchell because he too shared the Mitchell rationale that he would be better protected politically by a lack of knowledge, and thus...
...sacrifice his honor for love, there is a silence as if the shot fired at Sarajevo had just been heard the world round. Then Nora turns to the camera with a real smash below the belt, "Millions of women have." She looks like a continental Uncle Sam jabbing his recruiting "We Want You" finger straight into your stomach. Imagine how this fired the moral fervor of the ladies in the suburbs of Detroit...
However, Freund stressed that "the issue is in another dimension" in which Nixon is under a political and moral obligation to cooperate with the Senate committee. Nixon refused to testify in Saturday's letter to Senator Sam J. Ervin (D-N.C.), the committee's chairman...
...Saturday President Nixon sent a personal letter to committee chairman Sam J. Ervin (D-N.C.) in which he invoked separation of powers in affirming his refusal to appear before the body under any conditions. He also stated that access to all Presidential papers was out of the question, even if subpoenaed by the Ervin Committee...