Tonight at the Waterloo Ice House in Austin, where former Presidential Special Counsel John Dean was speaking in advance of an appearance at Netroots Nation on Friday, there was a very interesting moment where the Watergate scandal of the 1970s reached across several generations–right here in Texas.

Joe Jaworski (at right in the photo at left), a Democrat running for Texas Senate in the Galveston area, was on hand and met Dean (at left in the photo at left). It was Jaworski’s grandfather, Leon Jaworski, who was the firey Watergate Special Prosecutor who requeted the tapes from the Nixon White House on which Dean was heard discussing blackmale and perjury with President Nixon.

Jaworski and Dean talked for about 10 minutes uninterrupted–with Dean asking questions about Jaworski’s grandfather and Jaworski discussing his race with an interested Dean.

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