Watergate Hearings: Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities - Opening statement from Senator Herman Talmadge
Watergate Hearings: Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities - Opening statement from Senator Herman Talmadge
Tape Part 1 Watergate Hearings: Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities May 17,1973. Opening statement from Senator Herman Talmadge (D - Georgia). Senate Caucus Room, Washington DC Senate Committee Chairman, Senator Sam Ervin (D -North Carolina). Senator Talmadge, do you have a Statement? Senator Herman Talmadge (D - Georgia). Mister Chairman this committee was created by the United States Senate by unanimous vote for the purpose of investigating any election irregularities during the 1972 campaign. The vote of the Senate was non-partisan being unanimous. This committee has been organized on a non-partisan basis. Its staff is operating on a non-partisan basis. Every vote that this committee has cast to date has been non-partisan. In my judgment, this committee must get facts, the full facts, all of the facts on a totally objective non-partisan basis and let the chips fall where they may. I am confident that this committee will do so.