This series is a collection of papers produced during the Watergate Hearings that were donated by Congressman Don Edwards to the Heafey Law Library. Don Edwards (born January 6, 1915) is an American politician of the Democratic Party, formerly a member of the United States House of Representatives from California. Edwards was elected as a Democrat to the 88th from the 10th Congressional District (later redistricted to the 16th Congressional District) and to the fifteen succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1963–January 3, 1995). He was one of the managers appointed by the House of Representatives in 1988 to conduct the impeachment proceedings against Alcee Hastings, judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, and again in 1989 to conduct the impeachment proceedings against Walter Nixon, judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi. Edwards was the chairman of the House Subcommittee on Civil Liberties and Civil Rights for 23 years. Edwards earned the title "the conscience of Congress" for his steadfast support of civil rights and his advocacy of all the disadvantaged. Columnist Nat Hentoff frequently referred to Edwards as "the Congressman from the Constitution" because he regarded the Bill of Rights as his constituency. In 2002, he received the American Bar Association's Thurgood Marshall Award for his "unswerving devotion to the constitution and its values." In 2003, the House of Representatives honored Edwards with one of the first Congressional Distinguished Service Awards, noting the civility of his work and his refusal to pursue "political ambition at the expense of common decency" or to "sacrifice his soul at the alter of political expediency."
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