JOSEPH R. BIDEN, JR., Delaware, Chairman ORRIN G. HATCH, Utah ALAN K. SIMPSON, Wyoming DENNIS DECONCINI, Arizona CHARLES E. GRASSLEY, Iowa PATRICK J. LEAHY, Vermont ARLEN SPECTER, Pennsylvania HOWELL HEFLIN, Alabama GORDON J. HUMPHREY, New Hampshire PAUL N, Illinois MARK H. GITENSTEIN, Chief Counsel DIANA HUFFMAN, Staff Director JEFFREY J. PECK, Special Counsel (11) CONTENTS Page Chronological List of Witnesses, Questioning and Materials Submitted ... Post-Hearing Correspondence Between Judge Bork and the Committee ..... XXI, 3896 Additional Submissions for the Record Alphabetical Index of Witnesses, Questioning and Materials Submitted for 3 11 Ford, Honorable Gerald R., former President of the United States Questioning by Senator DeConcini. souri.. 12 17 Fish, Honorable Hamilton, Jr., Representative in Congress from the State of New York.............. 21 Opening Statements of Committee Members 94 29 32 35 44 47 51 59 66 75 77 85 92 121 Witness Bork, Robert H., United States Circuit Court Judge for the District of Colum bia Circuit, to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States .... 103 Opening Statement. 103 Questioning by: Chairman Biden 112, 127 1 (IV) Senator Byrd..... Page 126 128 149 176 ....................................................... 6 14 19 24 39 45 54 63 70 80 89 99 106 Prepared Statements Materials Submitted for the Record 1982. Wednesday, September 16, 1987 136 139 140 141 143 144 145 146 163 177 Witness Bork, Robert H., United States Circuit Court Judge for the District of Columbia Circuit...... 193 Questioning by: Senator Metzenbaum 193, 235 Chairman Biden 232, 241, 258, 264 Senator Kennedy 235 Senator Simpson 236, 242 Senator De Concini. 248 Senator Grassley 259, 264 Senator Leahy 267 Senator Specter. 277 Senator Heflin ..... 288 Senator Humphrey. 296 Senator Simon.... 307 198 199 200 Materials Submitted for the Record 1973 ...... with copy of Charles L. Black, Jr., "Mr. Nixon, the Tapes, and Common Sense,” The New York Times, undated.. Charles L. Black, Jr. to Congressman Bob Eckhardt, July 30, 1973 ......... al Record excerpt, August 1, 1973..... 202 204 205 212 Page 215 216 218 223 Letter from Robert Bork to Leonard Garment, August 3, 1973. stream,” The Washington Post, September 16, 1987. 6, 1987... 247 310 311 Thursday, September 17, 1987 Witness Bork, Robert H., United States Circuit Court Judge for the District of Columbia Circuit.. 319 Questioning by: Chairman Biden 319, 405 Senator Thurmond 329 Senator Kennedy 336 Senator Hatch 345 Senator Metzenbaum 360 Senator Simpson 380 Senator DeConcini. 391 Senator Grassley 400, 406 Senator Leahy 416, 427 Senator Humphrey 426, 427 Senator Specter. 427 Senator Simon. 438 Materials Submitted for the Record 354 357 List of “Supreme Court Briefs Where Solicitor General Bork Supported the Rights of Minorities," submitted by Judge Bork Rights of Women,” submitted by Judge Bork pared by Senator Kennedy, September 17, 1987.. of Antitrust Law of the American Bar Association to The Washingon Post, August 7, 1987. List of “100 Selected Law Professors Favoring the Confirmation of Robert H. Bork as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court" 370 388 408 Friday, September 18, 1987 Witness Bork, Robert H., United States Circuit Court Judge for the District of Columbia Circuit..... 445 Questioning by: Senator Heflin.. 445 Chairman Biden 452, 593, 642, 664, 676, 679, 696 Senator Humphrey 453, 736 Senator Thurmond 464 Senator Metzenbaum 467, 678 Senator Hatch 471, 594, 643 Senator Kennedy 646, 666 Senator Simpson 669, 677 Senator DeConcini 676, 722 Senator Byrd... 679 Senator Grassley 689 Senator Specter 713 Senator Leahy. 746 Materials Submitted for the Record Newspaper article by Stuart A. Smith, “Bork Deserves to be a Justice,” The New York Times, September 16, 1987. 455 |