Word: jaworskis
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Within hours after a jury was selected and sequestered in the Watergate conspiracy trial last week, Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski submitted his resignation. During the eleven-month tenure of the courtly, mild-mannered Texan, 14 major Watergate defendants, twelve corporations and 17 corporate executives had been indicted or pleaded guilty. Jaworski's dogged pursuit of Richard Nixon's White House tapes had led to a unanimous Supreme Court decision in the prosecutor's favor and, because of the contents of those tapes, finally to Nixon's resignation...
With that record part of U.S. history and the conspiracy trial in the ca pable hands of an ace prosecutor, James Neal (see THE LAW), Jaworski felt free to return, as he has long yearned, to his 800-acre horse ranch outside Houston and a $200,000-a-year law practice. As far as is known, there was no protest la tent in the tuning of his departure. He was not outraged by President Ford's premature pardoning of Nixon, al though he would have argued against it if he had been asked; Ford had not consulted...
...Jaworski was especially emphatic on one point: he had no intention of challenging Ford's right to pardon Nixon, since he was convinced of its legality. He said it would have been "intellectually dishonest" for him to have tried to overturn the pardon in court; such "a spurious proceeding," he added, would have amounted to "unprofessional conduct" on his part. Jaworski strongly urged that his top deputy, Henry S. (Hank) Ruth Jr., be named his successor. Ruth, a quiet but effective attorney from Pennsylvania, had also served as deputy to the first special prosecutor, Archibald Cox, and had helped...
...Justice Department lawyers in defending the ex-President against any civil suits arising out of his presidential service. At least five such cases, mostly involving Nixon's wiretapping practices, are pending. Petersen, whom Nixon once claimed to have on a "short leash," did not consult either Jaworski or Saxbe on the letter. After Jaworski privately objected, Petersen's offer was modified. In any case that might affect possible criminal prosecutions of Nixon aides, by either the special prosecutor or the Justice Department, the ex-President will not receive such legal help...
This time it was Leon Jaworski who called Nashville. Neal finally caved in. He left his family behind, gave up his private work entirely and rented a tiny efficiency apartment in Washington...