Watergate Hearings: Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities - Opening statement from Senator Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.
Watergate Hearings: Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities - Opening statement from Senator Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.
Tape Part 1 Watergate Hearings: Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities May 17,1973. Opening statement from Senator Lowell P. Weicker, Jr. (R - Connecticut). Senate Caucus Room, Washington DC Senator Lowell P. Weicker, Jr. (R - Connecticut). Mr. Chairman, Members of the committee. The gut question before this committee is not one of individual guilt or innocence. The gut question for committee and country alike is and was how much truth do we want? A few men gambled that Americans wanted the quiet of efficiency rather than the turbulence of truth. And they were stopped a yard short of the goal by another few who believed in America as advertised. So the story to come has its significance not in the acts of men breaking, entering, and bugging the Watergate, but in acts of men who almost, who almost stole America.