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...needed someone who was known to the bar and the public, someone with lots of prosecutorial experience," says Bork. After reviewing the Texan's performance as a prosecutor, his reputation as a man of integrity and a "feisty guy," the Acting Attorney General concluded that Jaworski was an excellent choice...
...stronger safeguards of job security. If necessary, Jaworski can go to court to get tapes or other presidential materials; it was the President's efforts to deny Cox this right that led to Cox's firing. That guarantee was spelled out by Acting Attorney General Robert H. Bork. He also put on public record the White House's capitulation to the demands of the Republican Senate leadership: the President gave up his right to fire the special prosecutor on his own, an authority that not even Cox had disputed. If some unresolvable dispute should arise, the President...
...this elaborate procedure will never be used, or so Bork insists. "There can't be another firing," Bork told TIME last week. "Let's face it. The political realities won't allow...
...Bork admitted that his first choice for the job had fallen through. Still, Bork said, he was delighted to have been able to persuade Jaworski to take on the chore, which was presented, in the new prosecutor's words, as a "call to duty...
...them is Acting Attorney General Robert Bork, who says: "We would have the situation of a judge appointing a man who argues the case before him. I think this proposal might jeopardize some of the cases." Cox, however, found nothing incongruous about letting a judge appoint a special prosecutor. He said: "It's certainly far more incongruous to expect people [meaning the Administration] to investigate themselves." To erase the problem, some sponsors say they would be willing to have the prosecutor named by all 15 active judges of the district court. Such a scheme was backed by Chesterfield Smith...