The seven members of the Senate Select Committee on Campaign Activities are the permanent panelists of the country's most engrossing daytime show. But Chief Counsel Samuel Dash, Minority Counsel Fred Thompson and the unseen staff members working for them off-camera are the producers, directors, stage managers and prop men without whom the spectacle would not go on.
Backstage for the Ervin committee means the other side of the street. While the hearings take place in the Senate's colonnaded Caucus Room, across First Street the staff labors in quarters that resemble a hastily established...
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