SAMUEL J. "SAM" ERVIN JR. - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 09/01/1970 - HFSID 131770
Sale Price $150.00
Reg. $180.00
SAM J. ERVIN, JR
Sam J. Ervin, Jr. sends his autograph to a collector.
Typed Letter Signed: "Sam J. Ervin, Jr.", 1p, 8x10½. U.S.
Senate, Washington, D.C., 1970 September 1. To Mr. Doug Voegler, Delta Sigma
Phi, Lincoln, Nebraska. In full: "This is to acknowledge and thank you
for your recent letter. I appreciate your interest in me and your request for an
autograph. I hope that the signature of this letter will be adequate for your
collection. With all good wishes, I am Sincerely yours," Sam J. Ervin, Jr.
(1896-1985), who had been appointed as U.S. Senator from North Carolina on
June 5, 1954 to fill a vacancy, spent the next 20 years representing the state
in Washington. He chaired the Committee on Government Operations and on
the Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities. In the latter
capacity, on May 17, 1973, he opened the public hearings that explored an
alleged cover-up by the Nixon administration in the Watergate affair. Ervin,
who had earlier been instrumental in bringing down Senator Joseph
McCarthy, who terrorized the political community -- including the Senate,
played a significant role in bringing about Nixon's downfall. Ervin came
to an uncomplicated verdict on Watergate: Nixon and his chief aides had pulled
some funny business to weaken the Democratic presidential ticket and enhance
Nixon's changes for re-election in 1972. He said that Watergate "for the first
time undertook to destroy the integrity of the process" and that its
perpetrators showed "the same mentality as the Gestapo." Ervin retired from
the Senate in December 1974; four months after President Nixon had resigned.
Slightly creased. Fine condition.
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