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Chapter 11 -Mike G, Dan G, Jazzmin M, Brittany M __Bob Dole__

Bob Dole was born on July 22, 1923 in Russell, Kansas. Later in his life dole joined the Army to fight in WWII. While stationed in Italy he suffered a severe injury to his right arm. He was later given an honorable discharge due to this injury. After his discharge he earned his bachelors degree in 1952 then he earned his law degree at Washburn University in Topeka. He was then elected to the House of Representatives by Kansas in 1960, then he was elected to the Senate in 1968. During Nixon's presidency he defended him against democratic attacks about Nixon's conduct in Vietnam.

During the Watergate scandal Dole was a senator for Kansas. When questioned about it he denied republican involvement in the Watergate scandal and Dole was neither arrested nor did he resign after Watergate and he continued a career in Washington at the Senate.


 * __John Erlichman__ **

John Ehrlichman was born in Tacoma, Washington, on 20th March, 1925. During the second world war. John Ehrlichman died of complications of diabetes in Atlanta, Georgia, on 14th February, 1999. Before his death he earned a bachelor's degree from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1948 and also a law degree from Stanford University in 1951.

John Ehrlichman later joined Richard Nixon’s campaign staff in 1960 while he was running for presidency against John F. Kennedy. Appointed to Nixon’s presidential council, he gained the position as tour director for Nixon’s campaign in 1968. The following year he was appointed as Nixon’s presidential assistant for domestic affairs

John Ehrlichman worked closely with Nixon and approved of the break-in of the office of Daniel Ellsberg, the psychiatrist who had leaked the Pentagon Papers to the press. He supervised the “plumbers” whose purpose was to stop White House press leaks and to those who opposed the Nixon administration

After the scandal was revealed John Ehrlichman was forced to resign in April 1973 by Nixon. Erlichman was charged with obstruction of Justice, conspiracy, and perjury .He was convicted of all charges and was sentenced to 20 months to 5 years in jail, but he ended up serving 18 months in jail

**Sam Ervin**

"If the many allegations made to this date are true, then the burglars who broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate were in effect breaking into the home of every citizen of the United States. And if these allegations prove to be true, what they were seeking to steal was not the jewels, money or other precious property of American citizens, but something much more valuable - their most precious heritage: the right to vote in a free election."
 * Born into a family of Scots-Irish Calvinists on September 27, 1896 in Morganton, N.C. Sam Ervin had a reverence for the Constitution from the start.[[image:sam_ervin.jpg width="184" height="240" align="right"]] In 1917, he graduated from the University of North Carolina and then went on enlist in the Army during World War I. he resigned from the army because he was dissatisfied with his performance in combat. For his war efforts and heroism he won the Silver Star, the Distinguished Service Cross and two Purple Hearts. He then graduated from Harvard Law School in 1922 with an LLB. He married his wife, Margaret Bruce Bell in 1924 and had three children: Leslie, Laura, and Sam Ervin III. Ervin practiced law in his home town and served three terms in the North Carolina General Assembly in 1923, 1925 and 1931. He also served on the Supreme Court of North Carolina from 1948 to 1954. In 1946 he was elected as a US representative to fill the vacant spot caused by the death of his brother, Joseph W, Ervin. In 1954 Ervin was appointed to serve in the US Senate where he voted to censure Senator Joseph McCarthy. The southern democrat used his country humor to bring down McCarthy who had terrorized a significant portion of the political community in the 1950s.
 * Throughout his career he served on several significant committees: the committee that censured Senator Joseph McCarthy (1954), the committee investigating illegal labor or management activities (1957-1960), and chaired on the Watergate Committee in 1973-1974 at age 76. During the Watergate hearings Ervin gained national recognition as the chairman of the committee investigating the burglary of the Democratic Party’s headquarters at the Watergate hotel. During the hearings Nixon refused to have his aides testify. Ervin responded to this with "Divine Right went out with the American Revolution and doesn't belong to White House aides. What meat do they eat that makes them grow so great? .... I don't think we have any such thing as royalty or nobility that exempts them. ... That is not executive privilege. That is executive poppycock." His verdict on the case was simply that Nixon and his administration tried to weaken the democratic presidential candidate and strengthen his chances of being reelected in 1972. Nixon had lied and covered up his actions and in the end was caught red handed. By 1974 the committee had substantial evidence that incriminated many of Nixon’s highest officials and the President was forced to resign. During the hearings Ervin said:

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 * Ervin retired in December 1974, four months after President Nixon resigned. He spent the rest of his life as a lawyer in his home town until he died on April 23, 1985 in Winston-Salem, N.C.

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