Word: burford
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...White House puts heat on Burford as Congress closes...
...signals were subtle at first, diplomatic hints lobbed from the White House to the Environmental Protection Agency. Presidential Advisers James Baker and Craig Fuller were quoted as saying at midweek that, despite President Reagan's public expressions of confidence in beleaguered EPA Administrator Anne Burford, firing her had indeed become an option. The Administration had counted on its showy, if belated, one-two punch-buying out dioxin-tainted Times Beach, Mo., and bolstering Burford with five seasoned deputies-to cool the controversy that has paralyzed the agency. But it soon became apparent that the EPA tar baby...
...hard to miss the glaring resemblances in the initial stages of the congressional investigation to a scenario we have encountered before. The refusal of EPA Administrator Anne M. Burford (formerly Gorsuch) to surrender subpoenaed documents, the mysterious use of a paper-shredder to dispose of the documents in question, President Reagan's defense of Burford's obstinacy on the grounds of "executive privilege," the frantic passing-the-buck of various EPA administrators on the witness stand--all of these are too reminiscent of the Watergate hearings to read about without shivering a little...
...REAGAN ADMINISTRATION protest that the EPA follies are only another vehicle to attack it, soon to be filed away in the morgue of old newspaper stories next to past media scapegoats of the moment like Richard Allen and Ernest Lefevre. That may be true. The Wednesday resignation of Burford may lay this scandal to rest; the attention span of the public is short, and the media will soon latch onto another scandal. But what should not be lost amidst the political furor is the substantive concern that the EPA is--or should be--very important agency, not for political reasons...
MARRIED. Anne M. Gorsuch, 40, administrator of the federal Environmental Protection Agency; and Robert F. Burford, 60, director of the Interior Department's Bureau of Land Management; both for the second time; in Washington, D.C. They met in 1977 when both were in the Colorado state legislature...