Political Quotes

“I wonder if my friend from New York recalls back in 1973 and 1974 when Senator Sam Ervin and Senator Howard Baker led their committee through months of hearings in a number of complex issues that have now come to be known as Watergate. I wonder if he recalls that the committee took testimony from those who were also targets of the special counsel, Archibald Cox, and later Leon Jaworski, who became special counsel after the President fired Mr. Cox. But unlike the recent ill-fated work of Mr. Walsh that we saw, the special counsel in Watergate succeeded in convicting numerous officials for substantive offenses. This was accomplished even though Congress was deeply involved in both Senate and House oversight and impeachment hearings. So I would assume that the Senator from New York would agree that there was a need for congressional action; that congressional action was initiated and occurred in an atmosphere where there was a special prosecutor, that would certainly seem to be a precedent that would be applicable in this case.”