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Hearings From left to right: minority counsel Fred Thompson, ranking member Howard Baker, and chair Sam Ervin of the Senate Watergate Committee in 1973. Hearings opened on May 17, 1973, and the Committee issued its seven-volume, 1,250-page report on June 27, 1974, titled Report on Presidential Campaign Activities. The first weeks of the ...
May 16, 2013 · Sam Ervin. Unless otherwise noted, all photos taken from archival PBS video of the Senate Watergate hearings. Sen. Sam J. Ervin Jr. was chairman of the Senate Watergate committee in...
1 day ago · the senate historian and author of the book reining in the state civil society and congress in the vietnam and watergate era era. ms. scott, what was the defining event that led to the senate hearings in 1973? the trigger that set off the hearing, the call for the senate hearings in. 1973 had happened the prior year. in june of 1972, when five when burglars broke into the democratic national ...
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May 17, 2024 · In February, the Senate had voted 77-0 to establish a select committee to investigate Watergate, with Democratic Sen. Sam Ervin named chairman. The hearings held by the Senate committee were ...
May 17, 2013, at 11:10 a.m. AP Photo. Sen. Sam Ervin Jr., chairman of the Senate Watergate Committee, speaks during hearings, May 18, 1973. The Senate Watergate Committee began its...
On February 7, 1973, the United States Senate voted 77-to-0 to approve 93 S.Res. 60 and establish a select committee to investigate Watergate, with Sam Ervin named chairman the next day. The hearings held by the Senate committee, in which Dean and other former administration officials testified, were broadcast from May 17 to August 7.
Democratic Senator Sam Ervin of North Carolina was named chair of the committee and was joined by Democrats Herman Talmadge of Georgia, Joseph Montoya of New Mexico, and Daniel Inouye of Hawaii. Republican Senator Howard Baker of Tennessee was the vice chair, serving alongside Republicans Edward Gurney of Florida and Lowell Weicker of Connecticut.
