Word: sams
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...SAM J. ERVIN JR., 76, chairman, a Democrat from North Carolina, is perhaps more suited for the job than any other member of the Senate. His political ambitions behind him, he is respected for his fairness and for an understanding of constitutional issues that he gained from service on the North Carolina Supreme Court...
Mitchell and Stans will also be called before the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, headed by North Carolina Senator Sam Ervin Jr., which is scheduled to begin its televised public hearings this Thursday. They may well turn out to be not only one of the most absorbing and significant television series ever, but also one of the most fateful political dramas in U.S. history...
James Howell, chief economist of The First National Bank of Boston, shrugged off the newest revelations! "Who are we kidding here? Sam Rayburn and Lyndon Johnson did everything in the book. They just never got caught...
During four-and-a-half hours of testimony in the morning and afternoon, Senator Sam Ervin Jr. (D-N.C.), chairman of the select committee, continually emphasized that most of McCord's testimony involved hearsay evidence--information obtained second hand--which was admissible only to establish McCord's motives for participating in the Watergate conspiracy...
...Meanwhile, we are all much indebted to a privately employed night watchman who was on his toes; three District of Columbia policemen who reacted very fast; a posse of persistent journalists; the courageous judge, John Sirica, who reminds us what an independent judiciary means; the looming figure of Senator Sam Ervin, whose impending hearings surely helped loosen various tongues. In short, the American democratic "system," an even grander and more important thing than the presidency, is Still running...