Word: jawarski
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...compromise decision, worked out by Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, Under-secretary of State, saved Johnson the embarrassment of being contradicted by his own crime commission. A majority of the group, led by Houston attorney Leon Jawarski, agreed not to oppose the President in the commission's formal recommendations, but it insisted on a statement that electronic bugging by police is necessary to fight organized crime. Jawarski, a personal friend of Johnson, had up to that time been frequently advanced by the press as a possible successor to former Attorney General Katzenbach...
This recommendation, in effect, placed the commission at odds with the President's privacy bill. Jawarski and his group had held firm. The commission technically avoided directly opposing the President's bill by recommending only that "Congress should enact legislation dealing specifically with wiretapping and bugging." The report nevertheless provides ammunition for opponents of the administration bill...
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