Age is Just a Number
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This 1925 yearbook photo shows Jaworski when he graduated from Baylor’s law school at age nineteen. His youth meant that in order to be admitted to practice law in Texas, he needed to get his disabilities of minority removed. Doing so required a judge declaring him legally an adult. Jaworski later commented that even with his admittance to the Texas bar, it was his youth and inexperience as a lawyer that prompted him to pursue further legal education at George Washington University.
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Leon Jaworski
In July 1974, Leon Jaworski argued to the Supreme Court that not even the president of the United States was above the law. As the special prosecutor in the Watergate proceedings, Jaworski sought tape recordings made by President Nixon. The…