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Almost two years after resigning as Watergate Special Prosecutor, Leon Jaworski has finally produced his long-expected account of the anxious, turbulent, year-long investigation that he directed into the worst scandal in American history. His book The Right and The Power (Gulf Publishing Co. and Reader's Digest Press; $9.95) is a straightforward, rather dry rendering, often made even drier by lengthy quotes from legal documents. Jaworski, who is donating the royalties to his own nonprofit foundation (which supports religious and educational projects), nonetheless offers some intriguing anecdotes and pungent observations. Among them...
...defendant. While running in the primary, Yarbrough had 13 civil suits against him pending in state and federal courts. Last June, just after his nomination, a Houston jury returned a verdict against him in a suit charging him with malpractice and false promises. Says former Watergate Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski, now back practicing law in Houston: "From all I can ascertain, he does not have the qualifications to sit on the supreme court." The grievance committee of the Texas bar is now considering recommending formal disbarment proceedings against Yarbrough. Says Committee Head John Teed: "We will leave no stone unturned...
After the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that Nixon must turn over the tapes of 64 conversations to Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski, the President telephoned Watergate Lawyer J. Fred Buzhardt. "There might be a problem with the June 23 tape, Fred," Nixon said. He was referring to the tape of a conversation he had had with his principal aide, Haldeman. When Buzhardt heard the tape, he knew immediately that Nixon was finished. It showed indisputably that Nixon had lied in claiming he had national security in mind when he asked top CIA officials to urge FBI Director L. Patrick Gray...
...case's tenuous connection to Watergate. Says Wolfe: "I would have given all my orchids-well, most of them -to have [had] an effective hand in the disclosure of the malfeasance of Richard Nixon." He announces that he drafted but did not send a letter to Leon Jaworski, offering his services. Pity the mail never went through. The national agony might have been avoided-well, most...
...questions about the professional conduct of Nixon's principal lawyers: James St. Clair, J. Fred Buzhardt and Charles Alan Wright. It alleges that they, as well as former White House Chief of Staff Alexander Haig, repeatedly impeded the work of the prosecutors, first Archibald Cox and then Leon Jaworski. They did so, according to the report, by delaying the delivery of evidence, sometimes claiming they could not find it, until courts required that it be produced. Wright, a law professor at the University of Texas, was specifically cited for having vouched in court for Nixon's assertion that...