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	United States Senate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The senator from each state with the longer tenure is known as the "senior senator," and their counterpart is the "junior senator"; this convention, however, does not have any official significance.
		The Senate meets in the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. Like the House of Representatives, the Senate meets in the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. At one end of the Chamber of the Senate is a dais from which the Presiding Officer (the Vice President or the President pro Tempore) presides.
		Committees may be established on an ad hoc basis for specific purposes; for instance, the Senate Watergate Committee was a special committee created to investigate the Watergate scandal.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_States_Senate (4821 words)

	United States Senate Watergate Committee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Committee played a pivotal role in gathering evidence that would lead to the indictment of forty administration officials and the conviction of several of Nixon's aides for obstruction of justice and other crimes.
		Its revelations prompted the introduction of articles of impeachment against the President in the House of Representatives, which led to Nixon's resignation.
		The Committee had two chief counsels, Sam Dash and Fred Thompson, who advised the Democratic and Republican members of the committee, respectively.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Senate_Watergate_Committee (255 words)

	Watergate Revisited (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Equally downplayed is the part one specific senator played in driving the diverse, disorganized and deeply divided committee to deliver the bombshells which kept the nation agog and focused on the ever-expanding scandal.
		Democratic senators distrusted the Republicans and Republican senators distrusted the Democrats and everyone was wary of Weicker’s “maverick” impulses.
		Blatantly untrue rumors were planted by Colson and others that Weicker was switching to the Democratic Party; that the senator’s daughter had been arrested on drug charges (Weicker did not have a daughter); that the senator was having multiple affairs and that his 1970 senatorial campaign was rife with illegal and unethical financial practices.
	www.barnesreview.org /March_2003/Watergate_Revisited/watergate_revisited.html (3040 words)

	Time for Senate Hearings on Bush Now
		More important, it is essential that the Senate vote—hopefully before the November elections, and with overwhelming support from both parties—to undertake a full investigation of the conduct of the presidency of George W. Bush, along the lines of the Senate Watergate Committee's investigation during the presidency of Richard M. Nixon.
		The Senate Watergate Committee was created (by a 77–0 vote of the Senate) with the formal task of investigating illegal political-campaign activities.
		When Nixon's former attorney general John N. Mitchell was compelled to testify before the Watergate Committee, he laid out the sordid "White House horrors," as he called them—activities undertaken in the name of national security by the low-level thugs and high-level presidential aides acting in the president's name.
	www.yuricareport.com /BushSecondTerm/TimeForSenateHearingsOnBushNow.html (3639 words)

	Why Is the Senate Watergate Committee Functioning as Part of the Cover-Up?
		The Senate Committee is arranging the witnesses and questions in such a way that little can be accomplished to prevent the continuation of the existing military junta.
		Senator Eagleton's hospital records were with John Ehrlichman, probably in the same drawer as the illegal bugging tapes ordered by Henry Kissinger and General Haig.
		It should be the duty of the Senate Committee and the special federal prosecutor to protect the life of this vital witness.
	www.theforbiddenknowledge.com /hardtruth/watergate_coverup.htm (8431 words)

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		Senator Sam Ervin, the beloved and respected Chairman of the Senate Watergate Committee, strongly supported the Independent Counsel legislation up until his death in 1985.
		The question this Committee must now resolve is whether the attorney general and other critics of the legislation are right that the legislation, itself, is fatally flawed and induces improper criminal investigations against high executive branch officials.
		Rightly or wrongly, the entire body of evidence during the impeachment hearings in the House Judiciary Committee and in the Senate trial came from Starr's investigation and referral to the House of Representatives.
	www.senate.gov /comm/governmental_affairs/general/032499_dash_testimony.htm (4199 words)

	Watergate Chronology 1973
		Watergate prosecutors find a memo addressed to John Ehrlichman describing in detail the plans to burglarize the office of Pentagon Papers defendant Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist.
		Testifying before the Senate Watergate Committee, Dean claims that Nixon was involved in the cover-up of the Watergate burglary within days in June 1972.
		Nixon offers a compromise to the Senate Watergate Committee, proposing that the Democratic Senator from Mississippi, John Stennis, be permitted to listen to the tapes and prepare summaries for Special Prosecutor Cox.
	watergate.info /chronology/1973.shtml (1067 words)

	U.S. Senate: Art & History Home > Origins & Development > Powers & Procedures > Senate ...
		During the Civil War, a Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War held hearings to examine battle plans and question the competence of Union generals and administration policy.
		North Carolina Senator Sam Ervin grilled members of Richard Nixon's administration on their role in various political "dirty tricks." The Watergate Committee discovered that the president had secretly recorded his conversations, and that evidence eventually forced Nixon to resign from office.
		The Watergate Committee revitalized the historical image of congressional investigations and set the standard for others to emulate, but also added to their burden of proof.
	www.senate.gov /artandhistory/history/common/briefing/Senate_Investigations.htm (1042 words)

	Watergate Chronology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Watergate prosecutors find a memo addressed to John Ehrlichman describing in detail the plans to burglarize the office of Pentagon Papers defendant Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist, The Post reports.
		Thirty years after the Senate select committee hearings on Watergate riveted the nation and doomed the Nixon presidency, a key figure in the scandal says he has a fresh and explosive revelation: Richard M. Nixon personally ordered the burglary of Democratic headquarters at the Watergate complex.
		Samuel Dash, 79, the chief counsel of the Senate Watergate Committee whose televised interrogation into the secret audiotaping system at the White House ultimately led to President Richard M. Nixon's resignation, dies of multiple organ failure May 29 at Washington Hospital Center.
	www.raritanval.edu /studentactivities/sjc/watergate_chronology.htm (1419 words)

	Carl Bernstein: Senate Hearings on Bush, Now (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		More important, it is essential that the Senate vote - hopefully before the November elections, and with overwhelming support from both parties - to undertake a full investigation of the conduct of the presidency of George W. Bush, along the lines of the Senate Watergate Committee's investigation during the presidency of Richard M. Nixon.
		The Senate Watergate Committee was created (by a 77-0 vote of the Senate) with the formal task of investigating illegal political-campaign activities.
		When Nixon's former attorney general John N. Mitchell was compelled to testify before the Watergate Committee, he laid out the sordid "White House horrors," as he called them - activities undertaken in the name of national security by the low-level thugs and high-level presidential aides acting in the president's name.
	www.truthout.org /docs_2006/041806Z.shtml (3771 words)

	The Watergate Files - Senate Hearings: February 1973 - July 1973 - Timeline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities is established.
		Dean testifies before the Senate Watergate committee claiming Nixon was involved in the cover-up soon after the break-in and that the White House had conducted political espionage for years.
		Alexander Butterfield, a former aide to the president and one of the few who knew about Nixon's tape recorders, testifies before the Senate committee and says that “there is tape in the Oval Office.” In doing so, he supposed he was confirming what Haldeman had already told the committee.
	www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov /museum/exhibits/watergate_files/content.php?section=2&page=d (381 words)

	Samuel Dash, 79, counsel for Senate Watergate panel - The Boston Globe
		WASHINGTON -- Samuel Dash, the chief counsel of the Senate Watergate Committee whose interrogation discovered the secret audiotaping system at the White House that ultimately caused President Nixon to resign, died of congestive heart failure May 29 at Washington Hospital Center.
		Dash was offered the job as on the Watergate committee by Senator Sam Ervin, who promised him independence and the ability to hire his own staff.
		Dash became so well known as a result of the televised Watergate hearings that he was often mistaken for a senator, and he said he couldn't buy socks without clerks asking for his autograph.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/obituaries/articles/2004/05/30/samuel_dash_79_counsel_for_senate_watergate_panel?mode=PF (672 words)

	Watergate: Brief Timeline of Events
		October 10, 1972: FBI agents establish that the Watergate break-in stems from a massive campaign of political spying and sabotage conducted on behalf of the Nixon reelection effort, The Post reports.
		June 13, 1973: Watergate prosecutors find a memo addressed to John Ehrlichman describing in detail the plans to burglarize the office of Pentagon Papers defendant Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist, The Post reports.
		April 30, 1974: The White House releases more than 1,200 pages of edited transcripts of the Nixon tapes to the House Judiciary Committee, but the committee insists that the tapes themselves must be turned over.
	www.watergate.info /chronology/brief.shtml (726 words)

	Online NewsHour: In Memoriam: Watergate Legends Sam Dash and Archibald Cox -- May 31, 2004
		JEFFREY BROWN: In 1973 Sam Dash was chief counsel of the Senate Watergate committee, investigating the break-in and bugging of the Democratic Party's national headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington.
		In 2002, Archibald Cox wrote that the Watergate experience: "was one in which the country showed its appreciation of the ancient rule that even the highest executive must be subject to the law." A year later, Sam Dash talked about Watergate on the NewsHour.
		It was a strong senate, a strong Congress that was carrying out its constitutional oversight function, that exposed the criminal activities of the president, but not only exposed them but informed the public who were the ultimate sovereigns.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/remember/jan-june04/cox_05-31.html (1586 words)

	CNN.com - Nixon ordered Watergate break-in, ex-aide says - Jul. 28, 2003
		Magruder, in a PBS documentary set to be broadcast Wednesday and in an Associated Press interview last week, says he was meeting with Mitchell on March 30, 1972, when he heard Nixon tell Mitchell over the phone to go ahead with the plan, the AP reported Sunday.
		Magruder said that even in the Senate Watergate Committee hearings, he was never specifically asked whether the president was involved.
		Maurice Stans was Nixon's commerce secretary and later was chief fund-raiser for the re-election campaign as head of the finance committee.
	www.cnn.com /2003/ALLPOLITICS/07/27/magruder.watergate/index.html (1177 words)

	The New York Times > Washington > Samuel Dash, Chief Counsel for Senate Watergate Committee, Dies at 79
		From 1973 into 1974, the committee investigated the 1972 break-in and bugging of the Democratic Party's national headquarters at the Watergate Hotel office complex in Washington by operatives of President Richard M. Nixon's re-election campaign.
		Dash was a central figure at the Senate hearings, often seen in his dark-framed glasses leaning over to counsel Senator Sam J. Ervin Jr., the chairman, and other committee members.
		He made sure all committee members were supplied with questions that explored important issues without slowing the proceedings by being repetitive or going off the point.
	www.nytimes.com /2004/05/30/politics/30DASH.html?ex=1401249600&en=dd45be760ef81e80&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND (999 words)

	Why Is the Senate Watergate Committee Functioning As Part of the Cover
		Robin, the son of anti-war Senator Alan Cranston, recently had legal troubles with a female who claimed he put LSD in her drink.
		Watergate defendants and close working associates of the espionage teams were Agnew-Ashbrook supporters.
		Watergate is about a White House President, Department of Justice, FBI, CIA, intelligence agencies that conduct para-military operations against all citizens alike.
	www.newsmakingnews.com /mbwatergate2.htm (7660 words)

	Online NewsHour: Watergate 25 years later -- June 17, 1997
		The release of the Nixon tapes shed new light on Watergate and the man behind the nation's highest office.
		The Senate Committee's chairman was North Carolina's Sam Ervin, a conservative Democrat with a reputation for savvy wrapped in a country boy image.
		KWAME HOLMAN: But many on the committee and among the growing audience viewing the hearings were reluctant to believe the smooth-sounding Dean.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/white_house/jan-june97/watergate_6-17a.html (1122 words)

	Watergate Dates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Watch police take the break-in suspects into custody.
		A 77-0 Senate vote establishes the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, which later becomes known as the Senate Watergate Committee.
		Sen. Sam Ervin, D-N.C., heads the committee, which is charged with investigation of "the extent to which illegal, improper, or unethical activities" occurred in the 1972 presidential campaign.
	www.msnbc.com /onair/msnbc/timeandagain/archive/watergate/Feb773.asp (80 words)

	AllPolitics - Watergate Sights & Sounds
		AllPolitics 'Toonist Bob Lang looks back at Watergate.
		The Watergate break-in took place on June 17, 1972, but it wasn't until the following May that the scandal hit the Hill at full steam.
		From May 17, 1973, when the Senate Watergate Committee convened, until July 27, 1974, the date the House Judiciary Committee approved the first of three articles of impeachment, the televised Watergate hearings mesmerized a nation.
	www.cnn.com /ALLPOLITICS/1997/06/13/sights.sounds/watergate/hearings.html (157 words)

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