tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957911.post667530492700546437..comments2024-03-28T12:59:05.739-07:00Comments on Iron Tongue of Midnight: Robert BorkLisa Hirschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14014924958428072675noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957911.post-55663253827297195152012-12-20T06:06:18.170-08:002012-12-20T06:06:18.170-08:00Thanks for that correction. Should I point Too in ...Thanks for that correction. Should I point Too in here in the comments for his article?Lisa Hirschhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14014924958428072675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957911.post-39949524456800475662012-12-20T05:56:02.923-08:002012-12-20T05:56:02.923-08:00There is one error in Toomin's article. Bork ...There is one error in Toomin's article. Bork should not be condemned for being the man who fired Cox. He and Richardson and Ruckelshaus had a meeting in which they agreed that the deed would have to be done - the Justice Dept as a whole cannot defy the President's will - and since Richardson and Ruckelshaus were resigning in protest, Bork would have to be the one who pulled the trigger. Bork offered to do it and then resign too, but Richardson told him no, don't resign, because that would leave the Dept. without anyone legally capable of serving as Acting Attorney General.<br /><br />I don't know what Bork's personal opinions on the matter were, but his action was, unfortunately, proper.<br /><br />Further, when afterwards Nixon called Bork in and offered to appoint him as the new Attorney General, Bork had the wisdom to reply, "That would not be appropriate."<br /><br />Bork knew he was marked by his role in this, and I was surprised when Reagan pulled him back out of obscurity a decade later and nominated him for the Court, although I found that others had completely forgotten who he was.<br /><br />Everything else Toomin says about Bork is completely correct, most emphatically "In the subsequent quarter-century, Bork devoted himself to proving that his critics were right about him all along."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com