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In a cartoon from Pravda, the Soviet Communist party newspaper, a figure labeled ??sreactionary press??? at right, attempts to raise the cold war from its coffin on August 8, 1973. Wreath before the coffin at left reads ??sTel Aviv.??? Wreath in center reads ??sNATO??? soviet insistence that the cold war is dead may explain the reluctance of the Soviet press to take a critical stance towards President Nixon in Watergate coverage. (AP Photo)
WASHINGTON, - After the Senate Watergate Committee hearings concluded Friday, August 3,1973 in Washington the reading of a statement by L. Patrick Gray III, former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Senators and counsel held a session. Form left are Senator Sam J. Ervin, Jr.,D-N.C., chairman; Sam Dash, chief counsel; Senator Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.,R-Conn., Senator Howard H. Baker, Jr.,R-Tenn., and Rufus Edmisten, deputy counsel. (AP Photo).
PHOTO: EAST NEWS/AFP (FILES) Picture dated 01 August 1973 of US John Erlichman in Washington. Former politician Erlichman, a key figure in the Watergate scandal died at his home at age 73, said his son 15 February. Erlichman president Richard Nixon's domestic affairs adviser was forced to resign from his post over the scandal in 1973 and was convicted two years later for obstruction of justice, conspiracy and perjury in connection with efforts to cover up the burglary of the Democratic National committee offices at the Watergate complex in Washington.
Archibald Cox, special prosecutor, talks with newsmen outside of U.S. District Court Thursday July 26, 1973 in Washington after Judge John J. Sirica said he would rule whether President Nixon will have to release White House tapes and other documents to Cox and the Senate Watergate Committee. (AP Photo/