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...needed someone who was known to the bar and the public, someone with lots of prosecutorial experience," says Bork. After reviewing the Texan's performance as a prosecutor, his reputation as a man of integrity and a "feisty guy," the Acting Attorney General concluded that Jaworski was an excellent choice...
...lawyer from Houston had barely accepted the job when he was asked if he wished it had never been offered to him. "Yes," quickly replied Leon Jaworski, 68, the man named last week to succeed Archibald Cox as the special prosecutor charged with getting to the bottom of the Watergate morass once and for all. "It's a terrible job," Jaworski's wife said when she heard the news. "I just feel sorry...
...could blame the Jaworskis for having reservations about the new post. Last May, Jaworski had said he was not interested in the job when he, among others, was sounded out by the Administration before Cox was named. "I did not feel at the time that the independence was there," he explains. "But now I'm not prohibited from taking any action I feel should be taken...
...fact, Jaworski is getting no more freedom of action than Cox was originally promised, although he did receive stronger safeguards of job security. If necessary, Jaworski can go to court to get tapes or other presidential materials; it was the President's efforts to deny Cox this right that led to Cox's firing. That guarantee was spelled out by Acting Attorney General Robert H. Bork. He also put on public record the White House's capitulation to the demands of the Republican Senate leadership: the President gave up his right to fire the special prosecutor...
Bork admitted that his first choice for the job had fallen through. Still, Bork said, he was delighted to have been able to persuade Jaworski to take on the chore, which was presented, in the new prosecutor's words, as a "call to duty...