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- From: cah@pavonis.JPL.NASA.gov (Allen Halsell)
- Subject: Re: Robert Bork
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- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 23:14:41 GMT
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- In article <BALDWIN.92Nov23172526@csservera.scs.usna.navy.mil>, baldwin@csservera.scs.usna.navy.mil (J.D. Baldwin) writes:
- > In article <bill.722541213@castor> bill@cognet.ucla.edu (William M.
- > Eldridge) writes:
- > >I may have my names confused, but wasn't Bork the guy who dismissed
- > >the Watergate special prosecuter at Nixon's bequest?
- >
- > And, no, he did not dismiss the SP at Nixon's behest, request or
- > otherwise. The AG (Archibald Cox? I can't remember) resigned in
- > protest rather than fire the SP, and explicitly requested Bork to stay
- > on and carry out the president's instruction. Bork did the firing,
- > but not for Nixon.
-
- Oooh, I wish I could split hairs like this. He carried out the
- President's instruction, but at the behest of the Attorney General
- ... have I got it right? So it was either Cox and Nixon working,
- or Cox and Bork, but not Nixon and Bork?
-
- I guess Bork was just following orders. We all know that makes it OK.
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