Democrat's No Vote in Watergate

On october third, 19 72, patman's committee was set to vote on whether to issue sapinas and hold public hearings in connection with the watergate affair. Peggy rayhawk lewis, a committee staffer who worked on patman's watergate probe, was in the room at the time. She still remembers how she felt when she heard one of the committee's most reliably liberal dem as give a speech about why he would be voting no. It looks now as though the democrats will not get something they wanted badly before election day, a full scale public congressional hearing on the financial aspects of the watergate bugging case.