Word: ruckelshauses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...center, and Congressman Jack Kemp, steadily holding to the right. Also: Richard Thornburgh, Governor of Pennsylvania; Robert Ray and William Milliken, retiring Governors of Iowa and Michigan; and two attractive political alumni now hi industry, former Congressman and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, chief executive officer of Searle, and William Ruckelshaus, former Deputy Attorney General, now senior vice president of Weyerhaeuser...
...Attorney General Elliot Richardson, 61, who quit rather than carry out order to fire Cox, practices law in Washington. Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus, 49, who also refused, is senior vice president of Weyerhaeuser Co. in Tacoma, Wash. Robert Bork, 55, third-ranking Justice Department official who did dismiss Cox, was appointed federal appeals court judge by President Reagan...
...tapes reviewed by Senator Stennis; he wanted the tapes themselves; he rejected Nixon's order that he renounce the right to subpoena further documents. Nixon forced a showdown by sacking Cox, which led to the resignation of Attorney General Elliot Richardson and the firing of Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus...
...President Carter had focused more on the energy problem at the beginning of his term, Ruckelshaus added, "the long term political benefit would have made his re-election inevitable...
...think what is at stake is freedom itself. Can free society cope with modern complexities? So far I am concerned we haven't done very well," Ruckelshaus said...