Word: bork
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nixon's announcement at his press conference?again a result of irresistible pressure?that he would let Acting Attorney General Robert Bork appoint a new special Watergate prosecutor was not reassuring. In declaring flatly that the new man, yet to be named, would never be given any "presidential documents," but only "information" from such documents, Nixon seemed to give him even less authority than Cox had been promised. Cox had been assured ?falsely, as it turned out?that he could have access to any evidence he requested "from any source...
What most disturbed his critics was Nixon's lack of guarantees that the new special prosecutor, to be appointed by Acting Attorney General Bork, would be any freer than Cox in gaining access to presidential papers or other needed tapes. Nixon said that no litigation will be needed by the prosecutor to get most nonpresidential White House evidence because these matters "can be worked out." But there is no real room for compromise, especially on evidence that might possibly implicate the President. Nixon vowed to grant the prosecutor "cooperation" and "independence," but that fell well short of what...
Moreover, Bork's search might not prove easy. TIME has learned that his first nominee was rejected by Nixon, apparently on the ground of the man's political leanings. If that is true, both Nixon and Bork still have a lot to learn. Bork had not even been inquiring into the politics of his nominees, on the proper, but apparently naive assumption that after all that has happened Nixon would not dare insert politics into his choice...
Nominated last January by President Nixon to become Solicitor General in June, Robert Bork grew more and more impatient to get to Washington. He had taught at Yale Law School for more than a decade, and Washington, he told friends, was "going to be pure pleasure." It would offer "a lot of intellectual fascination." Last week was indeed a fascinating one for Bork. Having been catapulted into the position of Acting Attorney General as a result of the Cox affair, the professor who came to Washington to gain firsthand knowledge of the Supreme Court found himself at the center...
...Acting Attorney General is no stranger to controversy. In an institution dominated by liberals, Bork was proud to be known as the most conservative member of the law-school faculty. An admirer of Nixon's "remarkably organized mind," he supported the President in both the 1968 and 1972 elections and helped prepare the constitutional case for Nixon's antibusing proposals in 1972. As the Government's chief advocate in cases before the Supreme Court, Solicitor General Bork promised to follow existing policy...