William D. Ruckelshaus, who famously quit his job in the U.S. Justice Dept. rather than carry out fmr. President Nixon’s order to fire the special prosecutor investigating the Watergate scandal, has died. He was 87.
Ruckelshaus spent much of his life focused on air and water pollution and other environmental issues. As Indiana's young attorney general, he sought court orders to prevent industries and cities from polluting waters, and in his later years, he was the Pacific Northwest's most high-profile advocate for cleaning up Puget Sound in Washington state.
Several thousand EPA employees greeted his return with thunderous applause. One sign read,"How do you spell relief? Ruckelshaus." William Doyle Ruckelshaus was born in 1932 in Indianapolis to a line of politically active lawyers. His grandfather had been the Indiana chairman of the Republican Party in 1900, and his father was the platform committee chairman at five Republican National Conventions.
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