02486nam 2200553 a 450 991045156670332120200520144314.00-8078-8474-X(CKB)1000000000487668(EBL)354265(OCoLC)476176194(SSID)ssj0000244077(PQKBManifestationID)11210404(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000244077(PQKBWorkID)10168749(PQKB)10555111(MiAaPQ)EBC354265(Au-PeEL)EBL354265(CaPaEBR)ebr10273418(CaONFJC)MIL929384(EXLCZ)99100000000048766820070629d2007 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrSenator Sam Ervin, last of the founding fathers[electronic resource] /Karl E. CampbellChapel Hill University of North Carolina Pressc20071 online resource (446 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-4696-1458-8 0-8078-3156-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Tar heel born, tar heel bred -- Just a country lawyer -- Senator Sam -- The soft southern strategy -- Claghorn's Hammurabi -- Conservative civil libertarian -- Privacy and the false prophets -- A time of doubt and fear -- Rehearsal for Watergate -- Truth and honor.Many Americans remember Senator Sam Ervin (1896-1985) as the affable, Bible-quoting, old country lawyer who chaired the Senate Watergate hearings in 1973. Ervin's stories from down home in North Carolina, his reciting literary passages ranging from Shakespeare to Aesop's fables, and his earnest lectures in defense of civil liberties and constitutional government contributed to the downfall of President Nixon and earned Senator Ervin a reputation as ""the last of the founding fathers.""Yet for most of his twenty years in the Senate, Ervin applied these same rhetorical devices to a very LegislatorsUnited StatesBiographyElectronic books.Legislators328.73092BCampbell Karl E(Karl Edward)977176MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451566703321Senator Sam Ervin, last of the founding fathers2226109UNINA