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Leon Jaworski: The Houston Lawyer Who Got the Watergate Tapes Released


The attorney was known for his willingness to take on the tough cases.
By
Jeff Balke
12/14/2020 at 6:00am
Published in the December 2020 issue of
Houstonia
You may not know who Leon Jaworski was—but, as a Houstonian, you probably should.
“He was one of the architects of the emergence of Houston as a world-class city,” says Steve Dillard, partner at Norton Rose Fulbright. From the 1950s through the 1970s, Dillard explains, “Jaworski’s fingerprints could be found on just about everything of consequence that happened in Houston.”
Still nothing? Maybe this will help. Not only was Jaworski a named partner of one of the most prominent litigation firms in America (Fulbright and Jaworski at the time), but he served as an independent council (think Robert Mueller) during the Watergate scandal. He was also a close friend and trusted advisor to former presidents Lyndon Johnson and George H.W. Bush. Miller says, “I think they ....

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