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Explaining that rock hands at the Washington Mall's annual Fourth of July concert have been attracting "the wrong element. James G. Watt announced that this year's event would be different. It would "appeal to families and a broad range of Americans," in a spokesman's words, and it would feature the heart swelling music of Wayne Newton and various military bands...
Public reaction was swift and devastating--the largest out cry Watt has stirred up in his far-from-placid two years in office, a department of official reported. Disc jockeys across the country inveighed against Watt-one called him "the administration's chief nerd." The Beach Boys, the most prominent group to play at the Fourth of July concert in past years, issued a statement that declared. "After Watt's remarks, we believe the Department of the Interior has attracted the wrong element...
...group. "The Beach Boys transcend generations," complained Rep. Thomas J. Downey (D.N.Y.), the chairman of the House arts caucus. "Wayne Newton doesn't transcend anything." "Help me Ronald, don't let him run wild," urged Re;. George Miller (D-Calif.). And Sen. Bob Dole (R-Kansas) suggested that Secretary Watt get going right away on a "surfin safari...
...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 he had found him sympathetic to the Administration's environmental policy and minimalist approach to regulation. Later that day Watt telephoned Ruckelshaus to administer what an aide termed a "philosophical litmus test." Said...
Despite all this action, some environmentalists found the Watt endorsement and Ruckelshaus' ties to industry disturbing. Since 1976 he has been a senior vice president of Weyerhaeuser Co., the huge Tacoma, Wash., forest-products firm that was named one of the nation's "Filthy Five" companies by Environmental Action, an environmental lobbying group. But others praised the nomination, giving Ruckelshaus high marks for his stewardship of the fledgling EPA from 1970 to 1973, when he fought consistently with the major automakers over air-pollution controls, banned a number of controversial herbicides and forced steelmakers and electric utilities...