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...certain bureaucratic politesse muffles most premature departures from an Administration. By mutual agreement, Cabinet officers make their exits murmuring about personal reasons or the completion of their assignment. The President protests his deep regret. No such charade disguised the exit last week of Interior Secretary Walter J. Hickel...
...Secretary was attending a budget-making session in the Executive Office Building when White House Aide John Whitaker informed him of a presidential summons. When Hickel left the room, Whitaker told the others: "The Secretary won't be back." Presidential Assistant John Ehrlichman sat in for most of the 25-minute meeting in the Oval Office. Nixon dislikes such confrontations. For months the President and other members of the Administration had subjected Hickel to almost systematic pressures and slights designed to make him feel sufficiently unwelcome to resign. Now Nixon, after the briefest pleasantries, came to the point...
Stirred Flurries. Hickel's case is the least baffling, for the outspoken Alaskan has been on thin ice since his renowned letter to Nixon last May was leaked to the press even before the President had seen it. With the nation's campuses in an anti-Administration uproar over the Cambodian invasion, Hickel wrote Nixon that he had failed to give the young a hearing, and was ignoring some of his Cabinet members, Hickel included, into the bargain. (Hickel took up pen only when he was denied a meeting with Nixon.) During the fall campaign, Hickel traveled more...
Republican candidates than any Nixon lieutenant except Vice President Agnew, though he made it plain that ie disapproved of Agnew's style and of e Administration's get-tough political Pitch. Hickel said he preferred a positive campaign...
Republican entertaining, however, is not always polished to a high gloss of sophistication. For example, Interior Secretary Walter J. Hickel and his Alaska-born wife Ermalee gave a dinner for some of the stars who performed last week in the invitation-only gala at Ford's Theater. The piece de resistance was a rack of lamb, cooked by Wally Hickel himself on his indoor gas grill. When the grill developed a small but intractable fire, a discreet call was made to the fire department, asking for the help of just one fireman, who was to be smuggled quietly into...