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...member of Congress in 1969-when legislators voted to raise Cabinet salaries from $35,000 to $60,000 annually-he is forbidden by Article 1, Section 6 of the Constitution to hold a Cabinet post until his Senate term expires next year. However, Acting Attorney General Robert Bork claimed that Congress could enable Saxbe to take his new job by passing "remedial" legislation, probably a bill temporarily reducing his salary to the old level (as a Senator, he earns...
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...
...Bork says that he agreed to fire Cox, after Elliot Richardson and his former deputy William Ruckelshaus refused, because "I believe a President has the right to discharge any member of the Executive branch." At first he thought that he should tender his own resignation after carrying out the order, as proof that he was not merely clearing his own way to a better job. Richardson urged Bork to stay on "to keep the department running," but Bork has made it plain that he has no desire to make his arrangement permanent. The post no longer looks inviting "after...