to handle this thing called watergate than senator sam j irvin. i worked for center sam jay irvin for 10 years. and i can personally attest. that things were different then than they are now. civility reigned remember that word civility and all of and all the people who were here some 60 years ago know that that is the case. too much civility is absent today. consider the level of viteral and the political discourse that exists in government today and even in the halls of congress i cannot emphasize enough the importance of the relationship between democratic senator, sam j ervin. and republican howard baker last chairman. okay. welcome to tennessee. they made a pact in the very beginning that this would be a non-person hearing the sole purpose of which was to uncover the truth. it's hard to imagine this happening today. because it required level heads and plain old-fashioned civility. they prove that a congressional committee devoid of malice and political bias. good fulfill expunctional of informing the public and then proposed legislation that w