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When Richard Nixon travels to Anchorage, Alaska, whom would he pick to mount a reception for him? Why, naturally, his former Secretary of the Interior. So Wally Hickel happily agreed to throw open his house to Nixon and entourage for a gala party featuring pate of moose...
...White House on Nov. 25, 1970. The President looked across the Oval Room and said: "Wally, you're a strong man, and I'd like to be just as strong when I tell you what I'm going to tell you." Then Nixon fired Hickel. "I got up to leave," Hickel recalls. "I did not shake hands with the President, but not out of bitterness. I didn't think of it. I felt so clean and totally free...
...Wally Hickel tells the story in his book, Who Owns America? (Prentice-Hall; $6.95), which is being released this week in Alaska and next week in the rest of the U.S. It is partly a definition of his two years as Interior Secretary, partly an exhortation for sweeping environmental reform, partly a popular politician's blunt view of the Nixon Administration. Its hallmark: an exuberant confidence in the wisdom of the American people, provided that their elected leaders present to them issues stripped of partisan politics...
Looking Up. The book has the quaint fascination of an Horatio Alger tale. Walter Joseph Hickel was born at Ellinwood, Kans., in 1919, the son of a German-American tenant farmer. As a four-year-old, he scrambled to the top of the farm's windmill to get a better view of the world. Rushing to rescue Wally, his father shouted, "Keep looking up! Keep looking up!" The advice stuck...
Walter J. Hickel, LL.D., former Secretary of the Interior...