Leon Jaworski
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Oct 7, 2026
Joe PatriceHOST
To be a little bit more precise, it is not really to exonerate Nixon as much as they are going to utilize their power over, uh, and, and a power that has been of some, some moment, uh, some import over the last few months.
Joe PatriceHOST
Uh, they want to utilize their power to control the discipline of government attorneys to launch a investigation, theoretically, into, you know, Archibald Cox and Leon Jaworski, the special prosecu- uh, prosecutors who looked into Watergate, to accuse them of ethical breaches that, uh, tainted the investigation.
Joe PatriceHOST
Uh, this would, of course, uh, be interesting as both of those lawyers are, you know, long dead.
Joe PatriceHOST
But they want to do this, uh, this is part and parcel of the, the Justice Department trying to take control over ethical investigations of government lawyers, something that they don't actually control according to the law.
Stephanie MillerHOST
Yeah.
Stephanie MillerHOST
Is she going to bring Leon Jaworski's bag of bones with her? Bring a duffel bag with Jaworski's bones.
Jody HamiltonGUEST
Anything can happen.
Stephanie MillerHOST
Let's give her our Nixon jingle.
49 MINS LATER
Charlie PierceGUEST
I
Stephanie MillerHOST
know.
Stephanie MillerHOST
Yeah, she has to dig Leon Jaworski up.
Stephanie MillerHOST
Okay.
Stephanie MillerHOST
Yeah.
Stephanie MillerHOST
Is she going to bring Leon Jaworski's bag of bones with her? Bring a duffel bag with Jaworski's bones.
Stephanie MillerHOST
Anything can happen.
Stephanie MillerHOST
Let's give her our Nixon jingle.
9 MINS LATER
Jody HamiltonHOST
Thank you for getting up early.
Jody HamiltonHOST
I
Stephanie MillerHOST
assumed you were busy digging up Leon Jaworski's bones to bring with you if you are deposed for...
Stephanie MillerHOST
No,
Dave RubinHOST
In the presentation, he showed officials internal documents from the Watergate Special Prosecution Force, first led by Archibald Cox.
Dave RubinHOST
Leon Jaworski took over after Nixon ordered Cox's firing in the Saturday Night Massacre.
Dave RubinHOST
Sheppard alleges Cox and Jaworski violated defendants' due process rights by meeting secretly with the judges overseeing the trials and suppressing evidence from the defense.
Dave RubinHOST
Mainstream scholars have long said Watergate was a real constitutional crisis and that Nixon, not the investigators, was guilty of malfeasance that doomed the presidency and produced overhauls that cut executive power.
CannConHOST
Former Nixon White House aide Jeff Shepard recently delivered a two-and-a-half-hour presentation to the DOJ's Office of Professional Responsibility outlining his case that Nixon and Watergate defendants were denied fair treatment.
CannConHOST
The 78-page presentation alleged that special prosecutors Archibald Cox and Leon Jaworski improperly communicated with judges and withheld evidence from defendants back in 2022 shepard sought a doj investigation into his allegations but the biden regime declined to pursue it now a doj spokesman has stressed that this newest development does not yet constitute a formal investigation and of course jd vance back in june said quote and i love this quote i actually this is one of my favorite quotes from jd vance because it's so true If Watergate happened tomorrow, it would be like a 12-hour news story.
CannConHOST
And to me, that's so true because not only is that showing that we as human beings now in the information world that we live in have the attention span of goldfish.
CannConHOST
Five seconds and we're like, oh, look at that.
Stephanie MillerHOST
Hope we can address those.
Stephanie MillerHOST
Leon Jaworski has only been dead for 44 years.
Stephanie MillerHOST
I'm sure we can dig him up and send his bones to Gitmo.
Stephanie MillerHOST
I mean, it's beyond parody, isn't it? Yeah.
Stephanie MillerHOST
Hope we can arrest those first.
Stephanie MillerHOST
Uh, Leon Jaworski's only been dead for 44 years.
Stephanie MillerHOST
I'm sure we can dig him up and send his bones to Gitmo." I mean, it's beyond parody, isn't it?
Rude PunditGUEST
Yeah.
Jill Wine-BanksHOST
But in preparation for today, I did read the documents that he alleges show that we had secret meetings with the judge.
Jill Wine-BanksHOST
And indeed, Leon Jaworski did meet with Judge Sirica on logistics, scheduling, timing, administrative matters, which are all ethical.
Jill Wine-BanksHOST
That is to be expected.
Jill Wine-BanksHOST
Judge Sirica was not only the judge in charge of our grand jury and our case eventually, he was the chief judge.
Jesse DollemoreHOST
During his presentation, Shepherd showed officials some of those internal documents from the Watergate Special Prosecution Force, first led by special prosecutor Archibald Cox.
Jesse DollemoreHOST
Uh, Leon Jaworski took over the probe after Nixon ordered Cox's firing in the famous Saturday Night Massacre, something Donald Trump has tried to relive and, uh, re-renew the efforts of firing people who are looking into his malfeasance, his criminality, his unethical and moral lapses.
Jesse DollemoreHOST
Mainstream scholars, actual scholars they mean, not mainstream scholars, actual scholars have long concluded that Watergate generated a genuine constitutional crisis, and that Nixon, not those who investigated him, was guilty of malfeas- oh, there it is, malfeasance.
Jesse DollemoreHOST
Look at that, huh? Malfeasance, which not only doomed his presidency, but also led to overhauls that significantly curtailed executive power.
Jon LovettHOST
All right, let's do this.
Jon LovettHOST
In 1973, when special prosecutor Archibald Cox learned that there was a secret recording system in the White House in which Richard Nixon had discussed the Watergate scandal, he subpoenaed those tapes.
Jon LovettHOST
Nixon then ordered the attorney general to fire Cox.
Jon LovettHOST
The attorney general refused and resigned.
Jon LovettHOST
Then Nixon ordered the solicitor general, Robert Bork, Bork, to fire Cox, who finally did it.
Jon LovettHOST
We learned after Bork's death from Bork's own memoir that in exchange for firing Cox, Nixon promised that he would nominate Bork to fill the next Supreme Court vacancy.
Jon LovettHOST
But Nixon never had the chance, because the second special prosecutor, Leon Jaworski, took over for Cox and subpoenaed the tapes anyway.
Jon LovettHOST
Are you with me? Of course you are.
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