The Nation - News from Sept. 17, 1987
CBS Evening News reported that Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D-Del.) was late for hearings on Supreme Court nominee Robert H. Bork because he was trying to obtain a copy of his law school records. It said Biden, a 1968 graduate of Syracuse University Law School, was accused of plagiarism while in law school but was exonerated. Campaign aides labeled as inconsequential suggestions that he used unattributed quotations from the late Robert F. Kennedy and others. Biden was criticized last week for not attributing quotes to Neil Kinnock, leader of Britain’s Labor Party. Biden has scheduled a news conference today.
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