Word: leon
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...President had his own day in court. Special Counsel James St. Clair squared off against Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski before the Supreme Court in three hours of historic arguments about presidential privilege. At issue was whether the President must turn over 64 more White House tapes to Judge John Sirica for use as evidence in the trial of seven other Nixon aides (see cover story next page). It was not known just how damaging to the President's cause the withheld tapes might be. But Nixon, tempted to turn them over to avoid a confrontation with the courts, made...
...possible. St. Clair seemed to suggest that possibility when he said that it might take two months for the 64 tapes to be submitted for screening by Federal Judge John J. Sirica if Sirica's original order to produce the tapes is sustained by the Supreme Court. Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski is now thinking in terms of a few days...
...probing, on the part of either the Justices or the attorneys, as the occasion demanded. To most laymen, however, the legal subtleties were not important. Mobbed by photographers and spectators on emerging from the hearing, Jaworski was confronted by loud applause and a shouted, highly unprofessional accolade: "Dynamite job, Leon!" St. Clair, smiling broadly and radiating confidence, was surrounded by a smaller but enthusiastic crowd...
Despite the masses of evidence already on the public record, the 64 tapes are widely believed to hold answers to some of the Watergate mysteries still unresolved. That is why Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski subpoenaed the material -and perhaps why the President refused to comply with Sirica's order to produce it for judicial inspection. The White House tried to take the case to the Circuit Court of Appeals, which would have meant still more delay. Jaworski persuaded the Supreme Court to take the case directly...
...Known as a quick-thinking, aggressive prosecutor of corrupt officials, labor racketeers and organized crime figures while he was with the U.S. Attorney's office in New York City, Ben-Veniste was recruited by Archibald Cox for the Watergate task force. He became head of it when Leon Jaworski was named special prosecutor and, with the task force's six other lawyers, helped obtain subpoenaed tapes in a major victory over the White House legal staff. "He bores in on you like a God-damned termite," said one lawyer who has watched Ben-Veniste in action. A Columbia...