Word: ruckelshauses
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...Nixon's hometown of Whittier, Calif. But the tie with Nixon was deeper than that. The ex-Vice President of the early 1960s, while cultivating Goldwaterites, was also acquiring a covey of "walking gentlemen" to escort him back onto the public scene -- young talents like Robert Finch and William Ruckelshaus. Bush was one of this circle -- and one who would fall for Nixon's own locker-room bravado as a political style. It did not work well for Nixon, but he managed to persuade some people, including Bush, that they could do it better (Bush actually does it worse...
...part because Nixon refused to let him listen to the White House tapes. Three months later came the Saturday Night Massacre. Bork's name became a household word overnight when, as acting Attorney General, he fired Watergate Prosecutor Archibald Cox after Attorney General Elliot Richardson and his deputy, William Ruckelshaus, refused to do so. At his judicial confirmation hearings nine years later, Bork said he acted to prevent chaos at the Justice Department and moved quickly to assure continuation of the independent probe. That seemed to settle the matter. But in recent weeks, some Massacre witnesses have quarreled with portions...
...denounced the environmental movement as having "fallen into the hands of a small, arrogant faction dedicated to bringing our society to a halt." Although he patiently listened to conservationists make their pitches to his Energy Department, he also helped kill a proposal by the Environmental Protection Agency under William Ruckelshaus to take some action against acid rain, rather than just study the problem. Complains Ben Beach, a spokesman for the Wilderness Society: "He's got Watt's philosophy and Clark's likable personality--a dangerous combination...
Moving quickly to prevent another sag in spirits at EPA, the President announced that Ruckelshaus would be replaced by Lee Thomas, 40, a blunt, hard-driving administrator. A former South Carolina public safety official, Thomas had been with the Federal Emergency Management Agency when it played a key role in the federal purchase of many homes in Times Beach, Mo., because of dioxin contamination in 1983. Ruckelshaus placed Thomas in charge of the U.S. toxic-waste program...
Thomas is respected at EPA, but will have less clout than Ruckelshaus in urging the Administration to place a higher priority on environmental issues...