Word: jaworskis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Haig had left the White House and was back at the Pentagon when the Watergate scandal broke. Nixon appointed him White House chief of staff after John Ehrlichman and H.R. Haldeman resigned. Unswervingly loyal to Nixon, Haig nevertheless established a good relationship with Watergate Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski. Many credit Haig with running the country while Nixon fought impeachment...
...Ethics in Government Act of 1978 institutionalized the job that Archibald Cox and Leon Jaworski carried out in Watergate -- investigating and prosecuting alleged wrongdoing by senior Government officials in the Executive Branch. With memories of Richard Nixon's Saturday Night Massacre still fresh, Congress aimed to make any future independent counsel more autonomous. It required that they be appointed by a special panel of three federal judges and shielded from arbitrary presidential dismissal. It was left to the Attorney General, however, to decide, after an initial investigation, whether the accusations were sufficiently credible to justify such an appointment...
...picket line was intended to inform students of the firm's "unethical practices," not to dissuade them from interviewing, said HLLP member Joe Kohanski. The picketed firm, the Houston-based Fulbright and Jaworski, is but one of eight law firms currently boycotted by the HLLP, a group of 20 Law School students...
They questioned whether Bork had the inclination or power to replace Cox with a strong successor who would pursue the truth. They said Leon Jaworski, Cox's successor, was named because the Nixon administration bowed to "a firestorm" of public opinion and congressional pressure...
...negotiations continued through Thursday. Between meetings with Pennzoil, DeCrane and Kinnear were huddling with their team of advisers, including Boies, Investment Banker Donald Brennan of Morgan Stanley, and Gibson Gayle, a lawyer with the Houston firm of Fulbright & Jaworski. Several members of Texaco's board of directors hastily flew to Houston, among them Robert Beck, former chairman of Prudential Insurance, and Frank Cary, former IBM chairman. Other directors, including Thomas Murphy, chairman of Capital Cities/ABC, went to Texaco's White Plains headquarters to join the talks via conference calls. All week long board members debated whether or not the company...