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Acting speedily for the first time in the entire Watergate affair, Nixon named a new interim acting FBI director just three hours after Gray's resignation was made public. Nixon's choice was William D. Ruckelshaus, 40, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. A tough-minded lawyer, liberal Republican and a former Assistant Attorney General, he is known to be appalled at the continuing revelations of White House involvement in the Watergate coverup. He does not expect to serve more than two months, said Ruckelshaus, and he does not want to be considered as a permanent replacement...
...speech took six months to prepare. Its content was so important and complex that key Administration officials including Foreign Affairs Adviser Henry Kissinger, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator William Ruckelshaus and Treasury Secretary George Shultz spent long hours contributing their expertise to it. Despite all the time and talent expended, however, President Nixon's special message on energy was somewhat disappointing. For a nation that has only 6% of the world's population, yet consumes one-third of the global energy production, it simply did not go far enough...
...Ruckelshaus hopes that automen will also use their extra year to explore alternate cleanup techniques. Among the most promising: a "stratified-charge" engine now being readied for mass production by Honda of Japan; it seems to require less change in the basic internal-combustion engine than any other antipollution idea and has extremely high fuel efficiency to boot. Environmentalists fear that Detroit will choose to concentrate its energies on a lobbying campaign to get the Clean Air Act weakened, and Ruckelshaus himself believes that there may be lawsuits aimed at overturning his decision...
...White House has hinted that it may be sympathetic to such efforts; on a visit to Detroit in February, Domestic Affairs Chief John Ehrlichman said that parts of the law do not make "common sense" and could bring "ridiculous consequences." Ruckelshaus agrees that the law should be changed to reduce the allowable limits for nitrogen oxides that are scheduled to go into effect on '76-model cars. New medical evidence, he says, shows that the levels set three years ago were unreasonably strict. However, Ruckelshaus insists that the White House put no pressure on him during the current debate...
...attended Princeton with Ruckelshaus...