WILLIAM D. RUCKELSHAUS
b. July 24, 1932
WILLIAM RUCKELSHAUS
in his second term as
E.P.A. Administrator
Published in BUSINESS WEEK
August 22, 1983 (p. 108)
Hoosier and Harvard Law School; Princeton and the G.O.P; drill sergeant in the U.S. Army; time in two Washingtons and one Texas. Briefly acting head of the FBI, and then the second Massacree (after Elliot Richardson) in the Saturday Night Massacre. Founding Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (the EPA), under Nixon, in 1970, the year of the first Earth Day, and then, more or less literally, clean-up man the second time around, under Reagan. The headline for the BW story for which this photograph was an illustration was "The Environmental Impact of the EPA's Mr. Fix-It."
The EPA has two biographies for William Doyle Ruckelshaus, First Term (1970-1973) and Second Term (1983-1985); the former includes a biographical timeline (which does not, however, mention the Army service; that is found here).
There is a long 1993 EPA interview here; and a new oral history garnered by Douglas Brinkley described here and available online here (with a contemporary photograph here).
In celebration of his eightieth birthday, Ruckelshaus went fishing and caught a salmon said to weigh nearly twenty pounds (he lives in the state of Washington these days); photograph and story here.
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