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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...
SENATOR HOWARD H. BAKER JR., 47, a serious and hard-working Republican from Tennessee, benefits from having been named co-chairman of the select committee investigating Watergate. Baker, a moderate conservative, has been urging a "no holds barred" probe. He is certain to get more (and favorable) public exposure when televised hearings begin...
SENATOR LOWELL P. WEICKER JR., 42, another member of the select committee, was the first Republican to demand-on what seemed like thin evidence-that H.R. Haldeman resign as chief of the White House staff. As a result, he was instantly in trouble with G.O.P. regulars in Connecticut. Now that he has been vindicated, his home-state stance has improved, and he might emerge as a candidate for Vice President...
...write poetry in the end must first learn grammar, syntax, and orthography." The logic was that if a person was going to create a work of art, he must first learn such principles as color theory. Instead of waiting for a burst of inspiration, the point was to select a problem, work on it methodically, and in the end the creative moment would arrive...
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...