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Richard Nixon is informally on trial for his responsibility in the Watergate scandal. As witnesses parade before the Ervin Committee, spilling their tales of burglary, electronic eavesdropping, forgery and bribery, the public is judging how much Nixon is responsible for the crimes. If the judgement is harsh, he will most likely have to resign, pious pronouncements about the integrity of the presidency notwithstanding...
...OPENING of the Ervin Subcommittee's public hearings has shifted the center of action in the Watergate investigation out of the Executive branch, and that is a good thing. From the slow and meticulous pace that has so far characterized the hearings, it would appear that the committee will be thorough in its investigation. The pace of the hearings may not satisfy lovers of soap opera, but anyone with a taste for the bizarre or sensational will be satisfied with the disclosures made before the committee...
Much of the testimony before the Ervin committee has been hearsay, and hearsay is inadmissible in judicial proceedings. But neither a senate hearing nor impeachment is a judicial procedure: they both are legislative matters. Hearsay constitutes acceptable testimony in political hearings and, though allowance has to be made for its possible inaccuracies, it provides useful direction for inquiry. It raises questions that men in the White House must answer...
...just three weeks after the arrests at the Watergate that some of his aides were interfering with a full investigation into the wiretapping and thus, in effect, were already starting a cover-up operation. Gray made this claim last week to Senator Lowell Weicker Jr., a member of the Ervin committee, and repeated it in a milder version to the committee staff. If it is true, Nixon not only disregarded news of White House involvement for some ten months, as he has conceded, but he also ignored the warning of the nation's highest police official...
...sift these and other conflicting claims of guilt, innocence and complicity, the Ervin committee intends to begin in a low-key, methodical manner. The first witness will be Robert C. Odle Jr., Director of Administration for the Nixon re-election committee, who will describe how the committee was set up and operated. Next will be one of the policemen who discovered the five men hiding sheepishly behind a desk in an office at Democratic headquarters at 2 a.m. on June 17. Then some of the convicted conspirators will tell their now-familiar stories of how and why they bugged, burgled...