Word: jaworskis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...await a request for it from that committee or hold a hearing of all interested parties, including Jaworski and the White House, on what to do with it. He could simply make it public?or have it locked up indefinitely. Whatever his course, it is likely to become known this week...
When Richard Nixon picked Leon Jaworski as special prosecutor, there were those who darkly suspected that the fix was in. Jaworski, a 68-year-old Texas Democrat who had been close to Lyndon Johnson, had quietly supported Nixon for re-election in 1972. As a highly successful $200,000-a-year trial attorney, he was a pillar of the Houston Establishment. There were unconfirmed reports that his appointment had been cleared by John Connally to make sure that he had a proper understanding of the President's predicament...
Quietly, efficiently, going his own way, Jaworski has turned out to be nobody's man but his own, determined that justice be done. Says a close associate: "Anyone who thought that Leon would not press the Watergate investigation with full vigor and integrity simply did not know Leon." He has remained scrupulously open-minded. Jaworski puts it this way, in his soft-spoken Texas drawl: "At my stage of life, do you think I would come in here and be part of anything that would ruin whatever name and reputation I have established over the years...
After an initial period to familiarize himself with all the evidence, Jaworski took the lead. He has made all the key decisions on such questions as plea bargaining and cooperation with the House Judiciary Committee. He refused on principle to meet with Nixon on accepting the assignment. He has since turned down two invitations from the President to see him. Jaworski has largely dealt with the White House through Chief of Staff Alexander Haig-with increasing impatience, though he recognizes that Haig is simply a "good soldier" obeying his commander in chiefs orders. The prosecutor was kind and courtly...
From the White House point of view, he is no improvement on Cox. He is often even more tenacious and less tolerant of anything that stands in his way. A pragmatic and informal man with a prosecutor's instinct for the kill, Jaworski is not so interested as Cox was in legal theory and lengthy staff discussions on the meaning of the law. Once his cases are sound, he wants to get them quickly to court. He is also a remarkably direct and succinct man in verbose Washington, setting some kind of record in his rare TV interview appearances...