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Special Prosecutor

United States of America · Government / Republican Party Government. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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Chronological records

1973

Richard Milhous Nixon1 November 1973

Government / Republican Party Government

At a nationally televised press conference, Nixon also announced that he was instructing Acting Attorney General Bork to appoint a new Special Prosecutor for the Watergate matter. On November 1, The Justice Department appointed Leon Jaworski its new special prosecutor

Names involved

Richard Milhous Nixon

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