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North Carolina. Senator Sam J. Ervin Jr. can rest easy on election night...
...simply stayed away. Explained McClellan later: "I would never vote for cloture, but I wasn't going to help those people [the Morse band]." Similarly, such anti-clo-ture Senators as West Virginia's Robert Byrd, Nevada's Howard Cannon and North Carolina's Sam Ervin delayed their appearance, recorded their no votes only after cloture was assured...
...Lawyer. It is almost ironical that Ervin's reputation as a humorist has obscured his standing as one of Capitol Hill's most learned students...
...four rooms full of books about the Constitution in his home office back in Morganton, N.C. Before going to the Senate, he served as a superior court judge and as an associate justice on the state Supreme Court. The late House Speaker Sam Rayburn referred to Ervin as "my lawyer," consulted him on the constitutionality of pending legislation...
...Senate floor, Ervin always stands with the South's segregationist bloc -and he is among the most skilled at arguing in constitutional terms, as opposed to racial epithets. This saddens some of his friends. Says one North Carolina associate: "I love Sam, but sometimes I just want to shake him." But then, everyone loves Sam. And New York's Republican Senator Jack Javits summed up that sentiment in the midst of a recent civil rights debate. Said Javits, when needled by Ervin: "The reason it's so hard to argue with opponents like him is that they...