That great Tar Heel conservative ...

... from the Watergate era, Sam Ervin, has found a biographer. Who turns out to be a friend of mine, in fact, the father of someone who is mentioned frequently on this blog. Ervin was a true defender of the Constitution, sometimes foolishly, sometimes too excess, but we all owe him a great debt for his work making clear to the American public what was at stake with a president who saw no limits to his power. Something we might keep in mind today.

Anyway, here is a neat lecture of the author on ol' Sam.