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...Liberty along with nearby Ellis Island, where as many as 16 million immigrants entered America between 1892 and 1924 (among them: Iacocca's parents). What former Interior Secretary James Watt had done for the Beach Boys by trying to ban one of their Fourth of July concerts in Washington, Hodel seemed to do for the made-in-America Chrysler chairman: give him the publicity he so eagerly seeks. But a former Interior official (not Watt) cast Hodel's decision in heroic terms, calling it "the most courageous act since Truman fired MacArthur...
...fisted presidential possibility who, though he has described himself as a Republican, dances in the dreams of many hopeful Democrats; the whirlwind fund raiser leading the overdrive effort to restore one of America's most cherished icons, the Statue of Liberty. In the other corner, Donald P. Hodel, 50. Donald...
Whether he had been courageous, dumb or just quirky, Hodel suddenly became the target of Iacocca's verbal wrath. Never one to hide his feelings, or his ego, the Chrysler chairman blasted back. His summary dismissal, he charged, "borders on being un-American." He referred to "all the crap I've taken." He declared, "I do not appreciate being disenfranchised on somebody's whim...
...Bennett and Attorney General Edwin Meese, centrists devoted to preserving and enlarging the beachhead won in the first term. Their passion has cooled with experience, extreme ideology has given way to accommodation. The controversy that followed Haig, Watt and Donovan has been replaced by the solid sense of Shultz, Hodel and Brock. If the Cabinet members are not flamboyant, they are competent. If they are no longer revolutionary, they are spurred on by the conviction that they have made a difference that must now be preserved...
California's Yosemite National Park is not the usual place to track celebrities. But campers in the glacier-carved valley found themselves asking for autographs when Robert Redford showed up along with Secretary of the Interior Donald Hodel for the formal dedication of Mount Ansel Adams, an 11,900-ft. peak named for the great wilderness photographer. Redford, 48, talked about his concern for protecting natural areas and the impression Yosemite made on him when he first saw it at age ten. "I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security," he declared. "Defense...