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...after President Reagan tapped him to succeed ousted EPA Administrator Anne Burford, Ruckelshaus was already hard at work trying to raise the agency's reputation, and employee morale, from the ashes. "Ruck," as his friends call him, is a tall, witty lawyer with broad government experience and a reputation for integrity and administrative astuteness. He is expected to step up enforcement against corporate polluters, clean up toxic-waste dumps, beef up the agency's management and budget, and repair its shattered relationship with Congress. Ruckelshaus was the nearly unanimous choice of top White House officials. Said one Reagan...
...meeting last Monday with Reagan in the Oval Office, Ruckelshaus made it clear that he wanted more flexibility and stature than Burford had, including a free hand in personnel matters, policy review and direct access to the President. Reagan readily agreed. Announcing the appointment, the President said he thought the Administration had a good environmental record but conceded, "I believe we can do better." The White House also moved to provide Ruckelshaus with a clean slate, asking for the resignations of five EPA officials, including four of Burford's top-ranking assistants, caught in the crossfire of allegations...
...been the network most complained about by Presidents, including Nixon and Johnson. So Rather was surprised by the lack of "any sense of hostility" when Reagan once complained. Still, it's a bit unsettling to be that closely monitored by the White House. The night Anne Burford resigned, the White House called during the Evening News broadcast to deny CBS's assertion that Reagan had asked for her resignation. CBS continued to insist that the White House had "wanted...
...first, things seemed to be going well. Although his chances were slim, Hernandez began actively campaigning to keep his job, signaling the White House that he could improve the agency's tarnished image. In a sharp contrast to the deep personnel and money cuts supported by Burford, he prepared supplemental budgets seeking more congressional funds. He also dismissed EPA Official Louis Cordia, who two years ago compiled a "hit list" of ideologically suspect agency employees...
...documents, looking for a trail of evidence that would lead to the White House. On Thursday the White House, which had long insisted that its files contained no internal reports on the notorious Stringfellow toxic dump in California, admitted that it did have two EPA reports confirming that Burford prepared to announce a grant to clean up Stringfellow last year but changed her mind at the last minute. There have been charges that the Administration delayed the cleanup in an effort to hurt the Senate campaign of Democratic Governor Jerry Brown...