Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations, compiled by James B. Simpson. 1988.
NUMBER:
411
AUTHOR:
Robert H Bork, Acting US Attorney General
QUOTATION:
I was thinking of resigning [since] I did not want to be perceived as a man who did the president’s bidding to save my job. I [have] had some time to think about it since. I think I did the right thing.
ATTRIBUTION:
1973 statement on his firing of Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox on October 20, 1973, recalled on his appointment to the Supreme Court, NY Times 2 Jul 87
SUBJECTS:
The World: Politics & Government: Officials & Other Personages
