Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, June 12, 1973
- Synopsis
- Recording of Senator Sam Ervin (Democrat) at the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, aka Senate Watergate Committee. In a debate with Herbert L. Porter (Nixon’s campaign aide) Ervin evokes Shakespeare’s Henry VIII - it was a wise man named William Shakespeare who wrote a play called Henry VIII, and in that he has one of his characters Cardinal Wolsey say "Had I but served my God with half the zeal/ I served my king he would not in mine old age/ left me naked to mine enemies".
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Television
- Technical information
- Colour / Sound
- Subjects
- Politics & government
- Keywords
- politics; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
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- Contributor
- Sam Ervin
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