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...F.B.I. announced recently that it was releasing its files on the Hiss case for scholarly use, so the pursuers of that fleeting mystery will soon have a new store of ammunition. Hopefully they will make better use of it than Texan professor Anthony Kubek made of a batch of dispatches from wartime China that the Senate Judiciary Committee decided to publish three years ago. That committee, which is not in the habit of collecting scholarly information on the Far East, obtained this material in 1945 in a rather spectacular fashion. After an agent of the OSS (wartime precursor...
Jaworski and Cox could hardly be more different in personal styles. A proper Bostonian, Cox, 61, is reserved, with flashes of arrogance; Jaworski, 68, is an expansive Texan, much warmer and more approachable. Jaworski soon showed that he is as devoted to hard work as Cox, plunging into long meetings with lawyers and investigators, obviously anxious to dispel any suspicions that he had taken the job to call off the hounds. "Press on," Jaworski said repeatedly. "Make your own judgments...
...needed someone who was known to the bar and the public, someone with lots of prosecutorial experience," says Bork. After reviewing the Texan's performance as a prosecutor, his reputation as a man of integrity and a "feisty guy," the Acting Attorney General concluded that Jaworski was an excellent choice...
...clearly would have preferred former Treasury Secretary John Connally. In fact, the Texan had expected to get the nomination. But Democrats in the House and Senate mounted a vociferous lobbying campaign against Connally, saying they would not vote for the man -whom they described as a fat cat, wheeler-dealer and turncoat-under any circumstances. Even some Republicans sent word to Nixon that they would not vote to approve Connally. Declared Massachusetts Representative Silvio Conte: "I will accept anyone the President sends up except Connally." Conte went so far as to work the cloakrooms against Connally, reminding Northern Congressmen...
...days later we had our get together-with-the-proctor meeting on sex, drugs, liquor, and crime. And two minutes later, a freshman from Texas was missing his $500 radio, stolen while we were across the hall listening to warnings about underage girls. The next day, the Texan came back from the Square bearing agreat weight--a new stereo to replace the stolen...