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While his integrity is unquestioned, the test for Webster will be how well he can-with limited administrative experience-run an agency with 19,000 employees, a $500 million annual budget and a lot of problems. Dominated by cliques and thoroughly demoralized, the FBI has suffered one severe blow after another to its public image since the death of J. Edgar Hoover...
...tapped to lead the bureau to brighter days has an exemplary record. After two hitches in the Navy (top rank: lieutenant) and degrees from Amherst College and Washington University School of Law, Webster entered private practice. Richard Nixon appointed him as a U.S. district court judge in 1971 and to the U.S. Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals in 1973. When Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas retired in 1975, Webster was one of the first eleven people recommended to the American Bar Association as a possible replacement...
...Webster is a Christian Scientist who neither drinks nor smokes and stays in shape by playing tennis regularly. He and Wife Drusilla weekend at the family's 265-acre farm in Callaway County, Mo., 90 miles west of St. Louis, where Webster rides horses and breeds Black Angus cattle. The parents of a college-age son and two daughters, the Websters have few qualms about moving East-even though, as Mrs. Webster says with a laugh, "we'll be one of the few in Washington not from Georgia...
When Griffin Bell announced William Webster's appointment to the FBI post, he noted proudly that it had been made "without regard to political party." One motivation for the remark: both he and President Carter had become embroiled in a controversy over their desire to sack a Republican, David Marston, as U.S. Attorney in Philadelphia...
Marston, who has convicted some top Democratic officials, including Pennsylvania Speaker of the House Herbert Fineman, was summoned to Bell's office the day after Webster's nomination. When he emerged, Marston said the Attorney General had told him that "the decision to fire me was final, and would not be reconsidered." Carter admitted the previous week that he had asked Bell to "expedite" the ouster of Marston after receiving a phone call from Pennsylvania Democratic Congressman Joshua Eilberg. Carter presumably did not know that Eilberg was under investigation by Marston's office for financial irregularities...