Word: jaworskis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...immobilized by Watergate. As White House Chief of Staff, Haig presided over the sinking Government with considerable grace and good humor and, though a military man, he was much less authoritarian than his predecessors. While many Democrats resented his role in trying to preserve Nixon's presidency, Leon Jaworski, then special prosecutor, now completely exonerates him of any wrongdoing. Haig helped maintain staff morale and ensure that essential business was done in Nixon's last days; he helped to ease Nixon out of office and prepare the transition to Ford...
...Haig stall Jaworski? Cox's successor, Leon Jaworski, portrays Haig as a tough but ethical adversary in the ex-prosecutor's post-Watergate book, The Right and the Power, and now contends that Haig merely "had to do what Nixon told him to do and this is what he did." But former associates of Jaworski recall that his attitude was far different during the investigation. Insists one: "Jaworski used to rant and rave aplenty about Al Haig." When Jaworski threatened to protest publicly the White's House stalling over delivery of tapes, Haig pleaded for more time...
...Leon Jaworski, former Watergate special prosecutor: "I would rather have a competent extremist than an incompetent moderate...
Democrats like former Governors Preston Smith and Allan Shivers are actively supporting Reagan; and last week they were joined by still another defector, Watergate Prosecutor Leon Jaworski, who said he preferred a "competent extremist" in the White House to an "incompetent moderate"-not that he thought Reagan was extreme any longer...
...Leader. "I am clean, clean, clean," insisted Bush. In a rare display of anger, he asked, "What the hell are they raising that for now?" He claims he reported the contribution in compliance with the laws then on the books. When he was named CIA director, Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski investigated the transaction and cleared him of any wrongdoing...