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Conservationists winced when Nixon fired Interior Secretary Walter J. Hickel for his abrasive style and disagreement with Administration policies. Hickel had become the unexpected hero of episodes Jike the battle to halt a jetport that endangered Florida's Everglades National Park. Though a former Governor of Alaska and thought to be friendly to the oil interests, Hickel delayed construction of the ecologically questionable 773-mile oil pipeline from the state's North Slope to a southern port. He cracked down on oil drillers fouling the Gulf of Mexico, and even put eight kinds of whales on the official Endangered Species...
...with guts-Walter Hickel...
...Talk about revolution! When a man like Walter Hickel gets the political ax [Dec. 7] for being more concerned with principles than politics, it looks to me like the system that is supposed to be working for me is really working against...
...Walter Hickel for President! Why not? When he came in, many of us thought he was the kind who'd sell the polar bears for fuel oil; but he turned out to be an able, conscientious conservationist...
...defiant railroad strike. Even loyal White House men speak of a "trough." Unemployment has climbed to 5.8% and inflation continues unchecked. A major national undertaking that has Nixon's backing−development of a supersonic transport plane−is in danger of being abandoned. Former Interior Secretary Walter Hickel. pink slip in hand, goes on television to attack the Republican posture in the election: "I think the American people want hope." A national poll shows Nixon severely slipping. Even the national Christmas tree is twice derailed on its train ride from the forest, and finally topples in Washington...