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...Ervin Jr., 78, Democratic Senator from North Carolina for 20 years: "My greatest regret has been my inability to enact some very basic laws that would guarantee individual freedom. I believe that you ought to leave as much governing as possible to the people at the local level...
Nonetheless, in recent years the criminal justice system had fallen far behind. Recently Congress, led by Senator Sam Ervin, passed a little-noticed bill aimed at shortening the delay in federal courts. The new law, signed by President Ford last week, provides that if a defendant is not tried within 100 days of his arrest, the charges against him must be dismissed...
...bill was largely the result of four years of effort by Senator Ervin, who, along with John Conyers in the House, helped work out many of the compromises with hesitant fellow legislators. "This process of refinement has developed a bill which carefully balances the rights of the individual and society," Ervin told his colleagues on the Senate floor two weeks ago. They agreed and overwhelmingly gave it final approval. The moment provided a fitting capstone to Ervin's career as a civil libertarian; the vote came on his last day in the Senate...
...Alexander P. Butterfield, 48, a former Air Force colonel and F-111 pilot who joined President Richard Nixon's staff as an aide in 1969. In July 1973, Butterfield gave Watergate an entirely new dimension by disclosing the existence of the presidential tapes to members of Senator Sam Ervin's committee and the world. By that time, Butterfield had been head of the FAA for four months, a job he got as a reward for his efficient service in the White House (he was never brushed by Watergate), and was already struggling with the organizational problems that...
...Woodward, Carl Bernstein, John Sirica, Sam Ervin, Archibald Cox, Leon Jaworski, Peter Rodino--two months ago, they too probably thought that ending Nixon's public career was the best thing they ever did. But now there are rumblings of another Nixon resurrection, as improbable as his climb from the humiliating loss to Brown in 1962 to the presidency in 1968. Most of the noise seems to be coming from San Clemente, but it bears monitoring, given Nixon's uncanny ability to worm his way back into the public's good graces after suffering through devastating scandals...