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Reagan is rescued by one Ruckelshaus, blasted by another
When the Administration was frantically trying to stop the cascading scandals at the Environmental Protection Agency last winter, the President turned to William Ruckelshaus for help. Ruckelshaus became the new EPA administrator, and the White House has begun to relax as the Republican with the "Mr. Clean" image has started to restore order to the shattered agency. "I want to make people feel good about where they work," he says. "The EPA has always been an agency whose people have a great deal of pride. Despite all the recent turbulence, the pride is still there...
...those ironic twists of Washington political life that Reagan was attacked by one Ruckelshaus even as he was rescued by another. Jill Ruckelshaus, Bill's strong-minded and outspoken wife, has been in the vanguard of frequent anti-Reagan reports that issue from the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Last month the commission accused Reagan of not appointing enough women and minorities to Government posts, and of limiting the investigation of sex discrimination at private and public schools and colleges...
...Ruckelshaus, who was the EPA's first administrator from 1970 to 1973, has issued new standards of conduct for relations with industry representatives, called for a uniform policy for assessing and coping with the risks of toxic chemicals, and stanched the budget cuts that critics charged were crippling enforcement programs. The new director has impressed White House officials, even the few who were initially reluctant to bring him aboard. "It's a measure of how much Reagan needed Bill," a friend of Ruckelshaus points out, "because he knew he was going to have to take Jill...
...ceremony at the old Executive Office Building in Washington, the President called him "an extraordinary public servant" who would have "total support in the difficult job of enforcing and administering our nation's environmental protection laws." Reagan urged him to start "a new chapter." With that mandate, William Ruckelshaus last week became the new administrator of the troubled Environmental Protection Agency. Said Jay Hair, executive vice president of the National Wildlife Federation, the nation's largest nonprofit citizen's conservation group: "Not only is Ruckelshaus the best choice anyone could hope for from this Administration, he would...