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...Senator Sam Ervin's Watergate committee has so far spent $1.5 million. The committee's staff now numbers 63, including 17 full-time attorneys and six investigators...
...hard line was taken up by Presidential Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler, who knocked down any possibility that Nixon might meet with Senator Sam Ervin's Watergate committee, as it requested last week-for the third time. Ziegler indicated that the President may be planning to defy the House Judiciary Committee in its impeachment inquiry by not voluntarily turning over White House documents. The press secretary also applied a new gag on White House officials who have been willing to talk candidly, but anonymously, to reporters. All contacts with the press, he ordered, must be reported...
After the Watergate affair broke open last spring, O'Neill became deeply involved in the House's reaction. He and Albert squelched as "premature" a move by Congressman John Moss to have the House start impeachment hearings after Senator Sam Ervin's committee began its work. O'Neill knew that there were insufficient grounds at that point to justify the step, which could jeopardize future efforts if the evidence came to warrant impeachment...
...White House and perilously close to the Oval Office. As more than one sympathetic Republican Congressman pointed out, the burden of proof has now been shifted to the President to demonstrate his innocence in the court of public opinion. On July 23 Richard Nixon had assured Senator Sam Ervin in a letter: "The tapes, which have been under my sole personal control, will remain so." While under that control, the Watergate evidence on one of them was forever erased...
...Hotel on New Jersey Avenue, now an annex to the House office building complex. There John Doar, chief counsel of the Judiciary Committee, and his staff of 40 were setting up shop. Telephones were installed, reams of paper piled up, most of it transcripts and computer printouts from the Ervin committee. But there were also ample contributions from other congressional committees that have been Investigating aspects of Watergate. By week's end all that was missing was a paper shredder, an item requested, but vetoed by the House Administration Committee on the ground that paper shredders had already figured...