After President Nixon resigned on August 1974, a woman wrote Senator Sam Ervin, chairman of the Senate committee investigating the Watergate scandal, called him a “miserable wretch,” charged that he had helped drive from office “the greatest President our nation ever had,” and expressed the wish that the Senator was “feeling as bad as he deserved to feel.”
In response, Ervin wrote her that her letter indicated that he had a higher opinion of the former President than she had. When Nixon admitted, in substance, on the tapes of June 23, 1972, that he became engaged in the cover-up of the Watergate burglary six days after its commission, Ervin “believed he was telling the truth, and she evidently thought he was lying.”
Source:
Boller, Paul F. “Congress and the President.” Congressional Anecdotes. New York: Oxford UP, 1991. 306. Print.
Original Source Listed:
Sam J. Ervin, Jr., Humor of a Country Lawyer, 204.
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