Word: leone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that all. Going beyond the indictment, which was carefully framed with the aid of Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski and his staff, the Watergate grand jury took on its own initiative a step that portends serious consequences for the President. In a hushed and tense Washington courtroom, Jury Foreman Vladimir Pregelj delivered a sealed report to Federal Judge John Sirica. The judge solemnly opened the envelope, quickly scanned a covering letter, then resealed it. Without a word on when?or if?the contents would be made public, Sirica ordered the envelope locked in a courthouse safe...
When Richard Nixon picked Leon Jaworski as special prosecutor, there were those who darkly suspected that the fix was in. Jaworski, a 68-year-old Texas Democrat who had been close to Lyndon Johnson, had quietly supported Nixon for re-election in 1972. As a highly successful $200,000-a-year trial attorney, he was a pillar of the Houston Establishment. There were unconfirmed reports that his appointment had been cleared by John Connally to make sure that he had a proper understanding of the President's predicament...
Quietly, efficiently, going his own way, Jaworski has turned out to be nobody's man but his own, determined that justice be done. Says a close associate: "Anyone who thought that Leon would not press the Watergate investigation with full vigor and integrity simply did not know Leon." He has remained scrupulously open-minded. Jaworski puts it this way, in his soft-spoken Texas drawl: "At my stage of life, do you think I would come in here and be part of anything that would ruin whatever name and reputation I have established over the years...
...Evangelical Lutheran minister who had migrated from Poland, Jaworski was born in Waco, Texas. The family was poor; Jaworski, his two brothers and sister worked their way through Baylor University, where Leon earned a law degree in 1925. He became so skilled a courtroom lawyer that he was hired by a leading Houston law firm, Fulbright, Crocker, Freeman & Bates. Through the years, he showed a talent for absorbing a mass of complex information literally overnight and giving a masterly performance in court the next morning. He became a senior partner in 1951. Today Fulbright, Crocker & Jaworski ranks second only...
...prosecutors, who use the institution's wide-ranging powers of subpoena to harass suspects against whom they have little real evidence. But several members of the Watergate grand jury have acquired such expertness and shown such diligence in questioning witnesses that they have become true partners of Leon Jaworski and the other prosecutors. Once last spring the jury members were so intent on their deliberations that they stayed in session until midnight, when they discovered that the cleaning people had locked them in. It took ten minutes of shouting and pounding before a janitor let them...