{"id":183443,"date":"2013-02-26T22:11:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-27T03:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/02\/26\/in-death-robert-bork-admits-to-rank-hypocrisy\/"},"modified":"2013-02-26T22:11:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-27T03:11:00","slug":"in-death-robert-bork-admits-to-rank-hypocrisy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/02\/26\/in-death-robert-bork-admits-to-rank-hypocrisy\/","title":{"rendered":"In Death, Robert Bork Admits to Rank Hypocrisy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/news\/bork-nixon-offered-me-scotus-seat-for-saturday-night-massacre.php?ref=fpblg\">he took a bribe from Richard Nixon to fire Archibald Cox<\/a> during the Watergate scandal:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Robert Bork says President Richard Nixon promised him the next Supreme Court vacancy after Bork complied with Nixon\u2019s order to fire Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox in 1973.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Bork\u2019s recollection of his role in the Saturday Night Massacre that culminated in Cox\u2019s firing is at the center of his slim memoir, \u201cSaving Justice,\u201d that is being published posthumously by Encounter Books. Bork died in December at age 85.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Bork writes that he didn\u2019t know if Nixon actually, though mistakenly, believed he still had the political clout to get someone confirmed to the Supreme Court or was just trying to secure Bork\u2019s continued loyalty as his administration crumbled in the Watergate scandal.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">President Ronald Reagan nominated Bork to the high court in 1987. The nomination failed in the Senate.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Robert Bork, in addition to being f%$# nuts, was a corrupt Cox sacker.<\/p>\n<p>Thank the Flying Spaghetti Monster that he die not make it to the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that he took a bribe from Richard Nixon to fire Archibald Cox during the Watergate scandal: Robert Bork says President Richard Nixon promised him the next Supreme Court vacancy after Bork complied with Nixon\u2019s order to fire Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox in 1973.Bork\u2019s recollection of his role in the Saturday Night &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,969,972,1177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-evil","category-justice","category-scandal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183443"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}