The Nation: A Stand-Up Texan for a Tough Task

The lawyer from Houston had barely accepted the job when he was asked if he wished it had never been offered to him. "Yes," quickly replied Leon Jaworski, 68, the man named last week to succeed Archibald Cox as the special prosecutor charged with getting to the bottom of the Watergate morass once and for all. "It's a terrible job," Jaworski's wife said when she heard the news. "I just feel sorry for him."

No one could blame the Jaworskis for having reservations about the new post. Last May, Jaworski had said he was not...

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