Word: lawyer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...impeachment proceedings are being conducted by the Judiciary Committee, headed by New Jersey's Peter Rodino Jr. Already he has started canvassing law-school deans for recommendations on the most able and nonpartisan lawyer available to head the investigating staff and conduct impeachment hearings. Rodino has been
Dershowitz, however, was not surprised at the appointment of Jaworski, a Houston trial lawyer. "He's just the kind of man I expected Nixon to nominate--he deals in compromises and exchanges of power. He doesn't deal in the high-principled law of a man like Archibald Cox," he said...
...might be a very good lawyer for many other purposes, but for this job he's a terrible choice. He's incapable, in my estimation, of inspiring public confidence that he'd follow the trail wherever it might lead," Dershowitz added...
Fulton B. Eaglin is young, black, and a well-educated lawyer. So is Henry Owens, incumbent city councilor and bete-noir of the Cambridge Civic Association...
Independent Committeeman James F. Fitzgerald, a lawyer, has served on the School Committee for two decades. He is the most vociferous advocate of "Cambridge jobs for Cambridge residents," is very conservative fiscally, and vigorously defends his right to dispense patronage. Fitzgerald in recent years has slipped from his position as the top vote-getter in the City, but his solid backing in East Cambridge should be more than sufficient to re-elect...