Sam Ervin Quotes
If Senator McCarthy believed those things when he said them about the Senate Committee then there is pretty solid ground to say that he ought to be expelled from the Senate for moral incapacity. If he put those things in there honestly believing them to be true, then he has evidently suffered gigantic mental delusions, and it may be argued with much force, that he should be expelled from the Senate for mental difficulty.
Samuel J. Ervin Jr., 1896-1985, U. S. Congressman & U. S. Senator (Democrat, NC), Quoted in The Bedside Book of Celebrity Gossip, Crown, 1984
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Introducing a resolution that was later adopted by the senate:
Chambers was prescient and to the regret of the right wing, did not listen to him. The reality was that McCarthy, unscrupulous, mentally unstable and an alcoholic intimidated even his own party members and this one sick and flawed individual intimidated and threatened to entire American political establishment. Although Chambers called for the Republican Conservatives to act, it was the liberals of both parties who finally took him on, exposed him and brought him down.
La Follette's war stand and attacks on the President were not usually appreciated.
After this, no other member of the Executive branch went before McCarthy again
Rejecting the political support of Joseph R. McCarthy and other radical conservatives:
Reacting to the disarray of the federal government as a result of the activities of Senator Joseph R. McCarthy:
Referring to Senator Joseph R. McCarthy:
President Andrew Jackson had been censured by the Whig Controlled Senate for withholding documents related to his defunding of the Bank of America. When the Democrats gained control of the Senate, they voted to erase history by expunging the original censure from the records and journals of the Senate. This is one of the worst examples of naked partisan politics in American history. In all of American History there have been two Congressional censures of American Presidents. This was one. See {620951} for the other.
Both of these politicians resorted to shaving twice a day so that they would not resemble the Herblock characterizations of them.
Characterizing fellow Republican Senator Alphonse D'Amato:
The Senator was particularly discouraged when a majority voted to change the Senate record of four years earlier and expunge a censure resolution against President Andrew Jackson:
For a similar view of Nixon, see Nikita Khrushchev.
Referring to the narrowly drawn censure resolution of Joseph R. McCarthy that passed the Senate:
Referring to Senator Joseph R. McCarthy:
Johnson was then Minority Leader of the Senate. This was a brilliant statement describing the different factions of the Republican Party which at that time were rarely in agreement.
Samuel James Ervin Jr. was an American politician. A Democrat, he served as a U.S. Senator from North Carolina from 1954 to 1974. A native of Morganton, he liked to call himself a "country lawyer", and often told humorous stories in his Southern drawl. During his Senate career, Ervin was a staunch defender of the Jim Crow laws and racial segregation, as the South's constitutional expert during the congressional debates on civil rights. Paradoxically, he was also known for his support of civil liberties. He is remembered for his work in the investigation committees that brought down Senator Joseph McCarthy in 1954 and especially for his investigation of the Watergate scandal in 1972 that led to the resignation of Richard Nixon.
