Title: Watergate scandal
Content: 93 and establish a select committee to investigate Watergate, with Sam Ervin named chairman the next day. The hearings held by the Senate committee, in which Dean and other former administration officials testified, were broadcast from May 17 to August 7, 1973. The three major networks of the time agreed to take turns covering the hearings live, each network thus maintaining coverage of the hearings every third day, starting with ABC on May 17 and ending with NBC on August 7. An estimated 85% of Americans with television sets tuned into at least one portion of the hearings. On Friday,

Title: Robert Odle
Content: to 1973, Director of Administration of the Committee for the Re-Election the President. As the administrative director of the Committee, he was the first witness to testify at the Senate Select Committee's 1973 televised hearings regarding the Watergate matter (Watergate Committee), explaining the organizational structure of the Committee for the Re-Election the President. He praised "President Nixon and the million volunteers across the nation and 400 people at national headquarters who did nothing unethical or illegal." Odle testified about contact he had with James McCord, Jeb Stuart Magruder, and G. Gordon Liddy, and particularly H. R. Haldeman and Attorney General

Title: Peter W. Rodino
Content: National Committee headquarters at the Watergate Hotel and with ensuing newspaper reports connecting the break-in to president Richard Nixon's 1972 re-election campaign, congressional Democrats found themselves under much pressure to hold hearings on Nixon's alleged abuse of presidential powers. Rodino had only been Judiciary Chairman for a few months when his committee began to hear the case for Nixon's impeachment. Until the Watergate scandal, Rodino had spent his political career largely below the radar screen. Watergate put Rodino front and center in the political limelight. "If fate had been looking for one of the powerhouses of Congress, it wouldn't have

Title: Presidency of Richard Nixon
Content: the Watergate scandal effectively precluded any major domestic initiatives. At the urging of the Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, Senator Sam Ervin of North Carolina took the lead in the Senate's Watergate investigation. The Senate established the Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, under the leadership of Ervin, to investigate and conduct hearings on Watergate. The "Watergate hearings" were televised and widely watched. As the various witnesses gave details, not only of the Watergate break-in, but of various other alleged acts of malfeasance by various administration officials, Nixon's approval rating plummeted. Nixon attempted to discredit the hearings as a partisan

Title: Samuel Dash
Content: in Rockville, Maryland. Samuel Dash Samuel Dash (February 27, 1925 – May 29, 2004) was an American lawyer who was chief counsel for the Senate Watergate Committee during the Watergate scandal. Dash became famous for his televised interrogations during the hearings held by the United States Congress on the Watergate incident. Dash was born in Camden, New Jersey, to Joseph and Ida Dash (originally Dashevsky), Jewish immigrants from the Soviet Union. His family later moved to Philadelphia. He graduated from Central High School in Philadelphia and went on to study at Temple University. He interrupted his studies when at the

Question: Who was chairman of the Watergate hearings?
Answer: Sam Ervin