Author : Karl Edward Campbell
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Legislators
ISBN : 9781458721921
Senator Sam Ervin, Last of the Founding Fathers (Volume 1 of 3) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition) by Karl Edward Campbell Pdf
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.