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After the Senate Watergate hearings ended, Committee Member Lowell P. Weicker kept up his personal investigation into the Nixon Administration's snooping on political enemies. Last week he demonstrated that the scope of those activities was far broader than had been previously known. At hearings conducted jointly by three Senate subcommittees into Government invasion of privacy, the Connecticut Republican made public a sheaf of White House memorandums, which he said "display Government at its most efficient philosophically and at its scariest" to individuals. Among his revelations and documentation of previous reports...
This new erosion at the grass roots has been felt in Congress. Those who have always talked tough are tougher than ever. Connecticut's Lowell Weicker went back to New Milford last week roaring: "The nation has taken offense to being treated like idiots ... If the explanations and illogical statements emanating from the White House during the past months had come from anyone other than a President of the United States they would have been labeled for what they are-trash...
Solzhenitsyn, like all the recent heroes of the establishment press--Sam Ervin, Howard Baker, Lowell Weicker, and so on--is the wrong kind of hero to take hold of America. Those facets of his life which would upset a hero's image stand too close to the surface to be abstracted into a legend. For example, he lives as a millionaire in Switzerland. He calls for the revival of the Russian Orthodox church, a brutal arm of czarist oppression before 1917. He branded former Attorney General Ramsey Clark a "fluttering butterfly" for ignoring Russian dissidents, but visiting POW camps...
...Lowell P. Weicker (R-Conn.), a member of the Senate Watergate Committee, said he stood by an earlier statement: "The significance is not in the acts of men breaking, entering and bugging the Watergate, but in the acts of men who almost stole America...
...Weicker submitted excerpts from White House logs showing that Nixon held 164 meetings with figures who are now part of the Watergate investigation during the period from June 20 (three days after the Watergate breakin) to July 31, 1972. During the same period, Nixon was logged as meeting Henry Kissinger, who was primarily responsible for foreign affairs, only ten times, for a total of little more than 2% hours...