Word: welcker
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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