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...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...
Lowell P. Welcker Jr., 43, "the bull in the Watergate shop," was a politically inconspicuous Republican Senator from Connecticut until he gained renown as a sharp questioner and independent investigator in the Ervin committee hearings. Moderately wealthy and Yale-educated, Weicker was elected to Congress in 1968 as an antiwar conservative, two years later squeaked into the Senate when state Democrats split their vote. Recent polls show that by combining a pro-Administration voting
Lowell P. Weicker Jr., LL.D., Republican Senator from Connecticut...
While most Democrats regarded impeachment or resignation as an inevitability that they were bound to support, Republicans were still anguishing about how to ride the wave that was swamping them. Scarcely a Republican could be found to disagree with a remark last week by Connecticut Senator Lowell Weicker: "I think the party has no obligation whatever to defend the President." But they had not yet agreed on any concerted plan of action, such as going to the President and telling him to step down. Less patient outsiders have wondered why the Republicans have not summoned their courage and marched...
...liberalism of certain research centers, notably the Brookings Institution, infuriated the Administration. According to one memo released by Weicker, Charles W. Colson, then White House Special Counsel, suggested that fire regulations be changed to permit the FBI to respond to any fire in the District of Columbia. In the memo, he explained: "If there were to be a fire at the Brookings Institution, the FBI could respond" and get a certain file from Senior Fellow Leslie H. Gelb's office. In another memo, former Presidential Counsel John Dean recommended that the White House retaliate against Brookings by cutting...