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When the Nixon Administration named Leon Jaworski to succeed Archibald Cox as the special Watergate prosecutor, the most skeptical people in Washington were the experts who would be working for the new man, the staff that Cox himself had assembled. Several key members of the 80-man unit said privately that they would resign if Jaworski did not vigorously pursue Cox's work, letting the indictments fall where they may. Last week the Watergate staffers had their first chance to take a hard, appraising look at their new boss. Their verdict, somewhat to their own surprise...
...Jaworski and Cox could hardly be more different in personal styles. A proper Bostonian, Cox, 61, is reserved, with flashes of arrogance; Jaworski, 68, is an expansive Texan, much warmer and more approachable. Jaworski soon showed that he is as devoted to hard work as Cox, plunging into long meetings with lawyers and investigators, obviously anxious to dispel any suspicions that he had taken the job to call off the hounds. "Press on," Jaworski said repeatedly. "Make your own judgments...
That acid quip summed up the attitude of most of Congress's Democrats, and a great many Republicans, toward the appointment of Houston Attorney Leon Jaworski as Archibald Cox's successor. They were even more determined than before to create a special prosecutor independent of the Executive Branch. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield urged his colleagues to delay action on Nixon's nomination of Senator William B. Saxbe as Attorney General in order to take up the special prosecutor legislation first...
Congress Burned. Congressional critics were not satisfied even by Nixon's promise that Jaworski would be free to seek whatever documents he desires and that he would not be fired without the approval of a "substantial majority" of eight congressional leaders of both parties. Republican Representative Wiley Mayne of Iowa said Congress still had to enact legislation with "very strong language assuring the independence of the special prosecutor." Declared Wisconsin Democrat Robert Kastenmeier, a senior member of the House Judiciary Committee: "The truth is we cannot have any faith in the President on this matter." Added Illinois...
...interviewer." Clawson also rapped the anchorman's selection of interview subjects: "Cronkite has done only three interviews this year-Archie Cox, John Dean and Daniel Ellsberg. Some balance, huh?" (The Ellsberg segment was actually aired on June 23, 1971; late last week Cronkite added new Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski to this year's tally...