Word: jaworskis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...former Representatives later this summer. But is the House Democratic leadership at the same time covering up its own long-stalled attack on the so-called Koreagate scandal? Countering such suspicions, Speaker Tip O'Neill and Majority Leader Jim Wright last week persuaded former Watergate Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski to lead the House ethics committee investigation into the whole affair...
...Jaworski, 71, had comfortably settled back into his lucrative Houston law practice after accumulating the evidence that did much to force Richard Nixon's resignation. When O'Neill and fellow Texan Wright called to try to persuade him, Jaworski says, "I wish I had been in Timbuktu." But, he adds, they "insisted." So, ignoring friends' warnings that he might "screw up" his Watergate reputation, he accepted-and agreed to serve without pay. Says Jaworski: "There is another challenge to another institution of Government, and it's up to someone to ferret out the facts...
Nixon shows no surprise that Frost had access to this previously undisclosed Colson tape. It was subpoenaed by Watergate Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski for use against Nixon's top aides in their criminal trial, but was not put into evidence. The implication of the tape is that Nixon?on his first day at work after the burglary?was already directing a cover-up effort. Now, for the first time in the days of interviewing, Nixon's speech begins to falter...
...unpopular in the South. His aim in advising Vandiver, he said, was to keep the public schools open, rather than abandoned ("Open on a segregated basis," scoffed the N.A.A.C.P.'S Clarence Mitchell). Bell won a resounding endorsement as being professionally qualified from former Watergate Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski. Some Southern blacks also came to his defense...
...Right and the Power, Jaworski...