Sam Irvin and the Watergate Committee

Sam irvin was seen as someone who could win the trust of people on the left and the right. I'm just a country lawyer, was irvin's catch phrase later used as the title of his biography. The chairman omits to say that he graduated from harvard law school with honorsete sole from tennessee. If we yed i say a word, iwan tbe. In addition to making the hearing room erupt in laughter, irvin used his status and his credibility to keep the committee on track.