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Many of St. Clair's Boston colleagues wonder why he took on the case if he did not have full access to all the relevant information, especially when what was already known was so damning. After all, they point out, Solicitor General Robert Bork declined the job precisely for that reason. Criminal Lawyer Joseph Oteri has a theory to explain the lapse: "St. Clair is a gentleman, and he expects that when someone gives you his word, that person's telling the truth. Now how the hell can you sit the President of the U.S. down, grill...
...Robert Bork, U.S. Solicitor General, had turned down an offer to become Nixon's chief defense lawyer precisely because he was not assured such access...
...audience applauded at length for the two men, who were together for the first time since before October 20, 1973, when Richardson resigned from office after President Nixon directed him to fire then Watergate special prosecutor Cox. Then acting Attorney General Robert Bork fired Cox the same...
JUSTICE. John Mitchell to Richard Kleindienst to Elliot Richardson to Robert Bork (acting) to William Saxbe (hopefully...
Nixon's position on the Cox firing was further undermined last week by Federal Judge Gerhard A. Gesell, who ruled flatly that the dismissal was "in clear violation of an existing Justice Department regulation having the force of law and was therefore illegal." Acting Attorney General Robert H. Bork, following Nixon's orders, had abolished the special prosecutor's post, ruled Gesell, as "simply a ruse to permit the discharge of Mr. Cox." This was demonstrated, he wrote, by the prompt recreation of the post. The judge said there was no need to take action to reinstate...