| Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations, compiled by James B. Simpson. 1988. |
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| 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 |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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