Word: jaworskis
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Pronounced physically fit and free from any signs of emotional strain after a long-delayed medical checkup, Richard Nixon quickened the tempo of his Watergate survival strategy with a burst of public appearances. At the same time he curtly cut off cooperation with Special Watergate Prosecutor Leon Jaworski, once more reneging on his previous claims that he wanted "all the facts" about the scandal exposed...
Prosecutor Jaworski last week reported the President's intransigence on Watergate evidence to the Senate Judiciary Committee but pledged that failure to get the evidence now will not hold up indictments. The committee will meet this week and may discuss what action, if any, it should take on the Jaworski letter. The committee can do little more than join his protest. It had supported the confirmation of Attorney General William Saxbe only after extracting promises from both the White House and Saxbe that no restrictions would be placed upon Jaworski's pursuit of evidence. The President clearly...
...Jaworski conceded in an ABC television interview that much evidence had been acquired from the White House-a quantity later detailed by Deputy Presidential Press Secretary Gerald Warren as 17 tapes and some 700 documents. But the special prosecutor disputed Nix on's public statement that all of the material had been surrendered "voluntarily." Said Jaworski: "Any idea that this material has been spoon-fed to me is in error. I have had to go after it. I have had to designate precisely what I wanted." It is, of course, the nature of specific evidence, rather than mere quantity...
Historic Vote. In his tug of war with the President, Jaworski held a strong advantage. The previous legal battle waged for similar documents by Cox had been victorious on two court levels-and likely would succeed again. Nor could Nixon afford to risk another public explosion by firing Jaworski, as he had Cox. The President apparently is gambling on the White House belief that the public, weary of Watergate, wants the affair swiftly resolved. Despite Nixon's State of the Union declaration that "one year of Watergate is enough," however, no quick resolution-short of resignation-is likely...
Outwardly composed, Special Watergate Prosecutor Leon Jaworski was nevertheless seething after his heated meeting last week with James St. Clair, President Nixon's chief Watergate counsel. In an interview with TIME Correspondent Hays Gorey, Jaworski complained that St. Clair had unfairly criticized him for having attested to the veracity of John Dean, the President's main accuser on Watergate, in an ABC-TV interview. Jaworski protested that the issue had been raised in open court and that, besides, the White House had released statements discounting Dean's value as a witness...