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Possible Leaks. Its chances of passage are rated better than even, because of the storm over the CIA and because the bill was referred to reform-minded Sam Ervin's Government Operations Committee. But the bill may yet be defeated. Even many members of Congress believe that they should not be entrusted with CIA secrets because of possible leaks. The alternative is to keep Congress uninformed, which seems equally unacceptable...
...bill does not reach the floor this session-a fifth unsuccessful cloture vote would certainly kill it-its proponents feel that it will easily pass early next year, probably in an even stronger form. Five or six opponents of the measure are retiring, including Sam Ervin of North Carolina, who helped lead the filibuster, arguing that the bill "is repugnant to the free-enterprise system." As chairman of the Government Operations Committee, which is responsible for such legislation, Ervin delayed the bill's entry onto the Senate floor. No problem is anticipated with his probable replacement: Connecticut Senator Abraham...
...been banished by Nixon's departure. Theologians criticized the manner in which Ford linked his decision to prayers and "the laws of God." Similarly, in a typical riposte, Senator Sam Ervin noted that Nixon had not been required to admit his guilt in return for the pardon, and added: "The pardon power vested in the President exceeds that of the Almighty, who apparently cannot pardon a sinner unless the sinner first repents" (see TIME ESSAY page...
...effective fact-finding, Congress has no peer." Further, a congressional committee would be wholly independent of Ford, which the President might welcome. Adds Constitutional Scholar Philip Kurland of the University of Chicago: "Depending on the committee's makeup and its financing, it could be very effective. Sam Ervin [who is retiring as a Senator] could be hired as counsel." There is a satisfying Shakespearean symmetry to the whimsical thought that the man responsible for many of the early Watergate chapters might get a chance to write the last one as well. In any event, someone must do it before...
...Watergate record is a sequence of similar bad judgments. It was only a "third-rate burglary." Tell the people nobody in the White House was involved. Blame it on the CIA and national security. That will stop it. The American people will soon tire of the whole affair. Sam Ervin's committee won't last long. Nobody can really understand the complexities of the case. The House will never impeach. The Senate will never convict. At each turn, Nixon's contempt for the intelligence of the citizens he governed and his failure to comprehend their basic decency...