With jowls jiggling and eyebrows all but airborne, North Carolina's retiring Democratic Senator Sam Ervin could not resist going out on a quote. As the Senate Watergate committee gathered in the Old Senate Caucus Room for its final news conference, Ervin summed up the meaning of it all with the help of liberal sayings from the Scriptures and the classics, including a ripely solemn phrase from Rudyard Kipling: "For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one."
As for guarding against future Watergates, Ervin said that he knew of no better guide...
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