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COVER Subject Sam Ervin is unlike most of the politicians that Correspondent Neil MacNeil has covered during his 24 years in Washington. "He has never been a publicity hound," says MacNeil; "he has never run a mimeograph to shoot off a daily barrage of press releases, hoping to get his name in print. Yet as a raconteur and one of Washington's hardest workers, he has always been well known to anyone dealing regularly with the Senate." Now, as chairman of the select Senate committee investigating the Watergate affair, Ervin is becoming equally familiar to the public. For this...
MacNeil first began considering a cover story on Ervin last fall. "It was plain then that a constitutional crisis was brewing," he says. "As one of the constitutional experts in Congress, Ervin seemed the man most likely to do battle with the Administration's attempts to expand its authority." As our story points out, Ervin, with his customary vigor, is doing just that...
With those words, typically skittering from Shakespeare to the Bible, North Carolina's Democratic Senator Sam J. Ervin Jr. was stepping up the rapidly accelerating tempo in a showdown over secrecy between the U.S. Senate and President Nixon. If the President will not allow his aides to testify publicly and under oath before the Select Senate Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, Ervin vows, he will seek to have them arrested...
Berger advised the Senate to follow Senator Sam J. Ervin's (D-N.C.) suggestion to use subpoena and arrest procedures to force the executive privilege matter into the courts...
...other Government representatives." Sirica ruled that any testimony by McCord must be recorded in the closed meeting. Sirica would then decide whether to release the information to a grand jury for possible further prosecution, to the press or to a Senate committee headed by North Carolina's Sam Ervin that is conducting a Watergate investigation of its own. One way or another, McCord's information is thus expected to emerge publicly...