Article: FORMER SUPREME COURT NOMINEE ROBERT BORK DELIVERS REMARKS AT THE NATIONAL PRESS CLUB

FORMER SUPREME COURT NOMINEE ROBERT BORK DELIVERS REMARKS AT THE NATIONAL PRESS CLUB

SEPTEMBER 6, 2005

SPEAKER: ROBERT BORK, FORMER SUPREME COURT NOMINEE

[*] BORK: Thank you. As far as the verb is concerned, I don't mind the fact that my name has become a verb. It's one form of immortality. You all recall Captain Boycott, Captain Lynch and Hobson of Hobson's choice?Hobson ran a stable in London a couple of centuries ago. And when you went to rent a horse, you got the one nearest the door, and that was it. So that became known as "Hobson's Choice."

Well, if I'm about to join that company of men, that's all right.

I'm a little ...

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