Word: leone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stonewalling," said McClory, "the prime example is right there." Democrat Seiberling declared that "without the power to investigate, the impeachment power is meaningless." Several other Democrats noted that since the Supreme Court had struck down Nixon's claim of absolute Executive privilege to withhold tapes from Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski, he had no valid claim to keep them from the Judiciary Committee...
...western Maine and the state's second and third largest cities-Democratic Lewiston and waveringly Republican Bangor-produced some bitter mail, including: "May a thousand camels relieve themselves in your drinking water." But generally his constituents seem to have been won over by his pro-impeachment arguments. Leon Smith, a Jonesport lobster dealer, used to say that he would not support Cohen if he voted for impeachment. Like many Mainers, however, he softened his view-"He's quite a man, I think"-after a local TV appearance by Cohen following his vote. The youthful, handsome Cohen has improved...
...President wittily and cogently, and has sometimes even criticized the White House (especially for bugging his telephone when he was in residence). More often, he has nitpicked the testimony of Richard Nixon's accusers or shot at them with dum dum bullets. Last week he went stalking after Leon Jaworski's "Special Persecution Force" and the "reign of terror" it is supposedly carrying out in Washington...
Definitively and unanimously, the court ended President Nixon's effort to withhold evidence from Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski in the Watergate case. Nixon was ordered "forthwith" to turn over tapes and other records relating to 64 White House conversations to Judge John Sirica's district court for use by Jaworski in the upcoming trials of six of the President's aides...
Archie Cox of Harvard, the blueblooded Elliot Richardson and Bill Ruckelshaus, a Hoosier Republican, gave individual honor a fresh luster. Leon Jaworski, the lawyer from Houston, showed principle and courage. And then House Judiciary Chairman Peter Rodino, out of the tough precincts of Newark, looking more like a Hollywood bit-player than a pol, steered his committee through investigation, hearing and vote with good will, restraint and dignity...