Sen Sam Ervin ....Watergate Hearings; anti civil rights and ERA

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http://www.cojoweb.com/sam_ervin.html

Sen. Sam J. Ervin Jr. (D-N.C.) had a distinguished career in Congress but became a household name at age 76 when he was chairman of the Senate Watergate committee.

Ervin was first elected to Congress in 1954 and joined a committee to study whether Wisconsin Republican Sen. Joseph McCarthy should be censured for his Communist-hunting activities. Throughout his 20-year career in the Senate, Ervin sided alternately with liberals and conservatives, opposing civil rights legislation in the 1960s and the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1970s.

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1. From the article regarding Sen. Joe McCarthy

From the article:

"The fledgling senator helped strip away the awe in which many of his colleagues held McCarthy with a notable speech in which he said that McCarthy reminded him of the preacher who didn't like the top knots women were wearing and wanted to denounce them as being counter to the will of God, although he had trouble finding an appropriate biblical text to support his argument."

Sen. Ervin was the dragon slayer in the Senate. We have no one left like him.

Thank you Sen. Ervin for ridding us of Joe McCarthy and Richard Nixon.