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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 ...
- June 27, 1974, (abolished, when the committee's final report was published)
- February 7, 1973
As chairman of the Constitutional Rights Subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee, Senator Ervin had investigated a number of issues important to the Watergate scandal, including surveillance and wiretapping. On February 7, 1973, the Senate voted unanimously to create the select committee. The resolution empowered four Democrats and three ...
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May 18, 2023 · The historic Senate hearings would eventually lead to the resignation of an American president a year later. Watergate “showed the government of the United States at its absolute worst, and then ...
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May 16, 2013 · On May 17, 1973, Sen. Sam Ervin, D-N.C., gavelled in the first public hearing of the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, better known as the Senate Watergate Committee.
Feb 9, 2010 · In Washington, D.C., the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, headed by Senator Sam Ervin of North Carolina, begins televised hearings on the escalating Watergate scandal ...
The Watergate Hearings Collection covers 51 days of broadcasts of the Senate Watergate hearings from May 17, 1973, to November 15, 1973, and seven sessions of the House impeachment hearings on May 9 and July 24 – 30, 1974. The hearings, recorded by the National Public Affairs Center for Television (NPACT), were broadcast each evening in full ...
Congressional hearings began on May 17, 1973, and were organized into three phases: “Watergate Investigations,” “Campaign Practices,” and “Campaign Financing.”. In his opening statement, Senator Baker stated, “ [V]irtually every action taken by this committee since its inception has been taken with complete unanimity of purpose ...
