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Unpopular Cases. The son of a Polish-born minister who served in Waco's First Evangelical Free Church, Jaworski was just 19 when he got his law degree from Baylor University. He went on to a spectacular career as a courtroom practitioner known for his tough but ethical cross-examinations. After World War II, Colonel Jaworski led the prosecution of the U.S. Army's war-crimes trials (the forerunners of those at Nuremberg). In civilian life, he often took on unpopular cases in the South, including the defense of a black who had murdered a white couple...
...Jaworski rose to become a modest millionaire by Texas standards, the president of the American Bar Association and the senior partner of the Houston law firm that in size and influence is second only to John Connally's. A lifelong Texas Democrat-although he supported Nixon in 1972-Jaworski reigns in Houston as the apotheosis of Establishment power. In 1948, Jaworski helped defend Lyndon Johnson against charges of fraud in the wake of the 87-vote victory that first sent him to the Senate. In 1960, he defended his friend against suits that sought to prevent him from running...
...Reservations. Jaworski gets high marks from lawyers who know him. Although President Chesterfield Smith of the American Bar Association would prefer a completely independent prosecutor, he says of Jaworski: "It's a fabulous appointment. I have absolutely no reservations about his competency and integrity. He's a stand-up guy. If he's shoved, he will shove back...
Jaworskl expects to get into some shoving matches. "I'd be the most surprised man alive if there were not pressures from all kinds of sources. But if I didn't think I could handle that I wouldn't have accepted the job." Only last spring Jaworski made a speech saying that the main lesson of Watergate was that "regardless of power and position, no man is above...
...special prosecutor is eager to come to grips with his job. "The American people are entitled to have some answers without waiting forever," says Jaworski, "and I intend to get those answers...