Word: ruckelshauses
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...applause was thunderous, the hand-lettered signs jubilant. HOW DO YOU SPELL RELIEF? read one. RUCKELSHAUS. William Doyle Ruckelshaus, 50, the Environmental Protection Agency's first administrator a decade ago, came home last week to a rousing hero's welcome. "The trust of the public is sacred and must never be broken," he told a crowd of more than 1,000 employees at the agency's Washington headquarters. "It's time we stopped chewing on each other and started pulling together...
...after President Reagan tapped him to succeed ousted EPA Administrator Anne Burford, Ruckelshaus was already hard at work trying to raise the agency's reputation, and employee morale, from the ashes. "Ruck," as his friends call him, is a tall, witty lawyer with broad government experience and a reputation for integrity and administrative astuteness. He is expected to step up enforcement against corporate polluters, clean up toxic-waste dumps, beef up the agency's management and budget, and repair its shattered relationship with Congress. Ruckelshaus was the nearly unanimous choice of top White House officials. Said one Reagan...
...first some aides fretted that Ruckelshaus, who has never been a member of Reagan's inner circle of supporters, would not be acceptable to the right wing of the party. They were afraid that he might not prove a team player, recalling that, as Deputy Attorney General under President Nixon, he resigned rather than fire Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox in the famed Saturday Night Massacre of October 1973. Two weeks ago, Presidential Adviser Craig Fuller telephoned Interior Department Head James Watt to get a conservative reading. Watt was enthusiastic about Ruckelshaus and said that in private conversations...
...accelerate its search for a blue-ribbon successor for the top job, a tricky matter since the nominee must be enough of an environmental advocate to withstand congressional scrutiny and yet fit in with the President's more minimalist approach to regulation. The leading contender was William Ruckelshaus, the first EPA administrator under President Nixon and now a senior vice president of Weyerhaeuser, a wood and paper company. But his industry connections may make him suspect to environmentalists. Said Democratic Congressman Edward Markey: "What we clearly need now is a Mr. Clean, with no ties to industry...
...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...