Leon Jaworski

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Leon Jaworksi (September 19, 1905 - December 9, 1982) - Special Prosecutor during the Watergate Scandal. Jaworski was appointed to that position on November 1, 1973, shortly after the Saturday Night Massacre. It was he who demanded unedited tapes from Richard Nixon, who turned over the tapes under pressure from the Supreme Court and was forced to resign in August 1974.

A child of Polish and Austrian immigrants, he became the youngest person ever admitted to the Texas bar (1925), and in 1931 he joined the Houston firm that became "Fulbright & Jaworski".