Word: leone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nixon concluded and set aside his prepared text, but then paused, the moment obviously was at hand. Speaking without notes and with considerable feeling, Nixon then addressed himself to "the so-called Watergate affair." He seemed to be saying that he had cooperated long enough with Special Watergate Prosecutor Leon Jaworski. Said Nixon: "I believe that I have provided all the material that he needs to conclude his investigations and to proceed to prosecute the guilty and to clear the innocent." The investigations must end, Nixon declared. "One year of Watergate is enough...
Speaking to a packed auditorium of over 500 students and guests, he added, "In my opinion, this function is equally if not more important than the duty of legislating." Dash explained the recent seeming inactivity of the committee as a move to prevent interference with Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski, who is expected to ask a grand jury to hand down indictments later this month...
Meanwhile, Counsel Doar and his staff of 40 are trying to lay hands on the documents, tapes and testimony that Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski has been accumulating on all phases of Watergate. Without the files, warns Rodino, his hearings could drag on until next year-a prospect appalling to everyone. But Jaworski, who has to worry about charges of partisanship himself, has been carefully insisting that he does not now have the legal right to turn over his files to Rodino...
...been given to us, break it down into areas, decide what we have, what it means, whether more is needed, and how we should go about getting any more." One area of documentation is off limits to the committee. Though Doar has had two amiable meetings with Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski, he has not been able to obtain any information. All pertinent White House material received by Jaworski is to be turned over to the grand jury. From that point, it is in the hands of the court and is not available to the House or Senate committees...
...LEON EISENBERG, professor of Psychiatry at the Medical School, doesn't immediately stand out as the sort of person who gives impassioned speeches at rallies in solidarity with Greek demonstrators. Fiftyish, distinguished in his profession, chief of the psychiatry department at Massachusetts General Hospital, he seems perfectly comfortable in his book-lined office. But there he was last November, talking to 150 students gathered in the Science Center to denounce what Greek police--with American tanks--were doing to anti-government demonstrators, telling about the defendant in a political trial in Athens...